Boehner!
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See, since Lamar! didn't get Senate Whip, we're all missing out on excuses to use the exclamation point. So, congratulations John Boehner!
The votes are not even counted yet and we can call this race. Congressman, we did our best to get Mike Pence elected and we weren't able. But we're quite willing to work with you to advance the Republican cause.
Congratulations. Now, onward, forward, and fight.
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Congratulations are in order for Karl Rove. He's getting his people in leadership all over the GOP, to make sure we have the same electoral success in 2008 as we did in 2006.
The two-year Republican firing squad - circular, in other words - is lining up. Whee.
Why can't it be the same success we had in 2004, 2002, and 2000?
And how is the re-election of Boehner anything resembling a circular firing squad? Isn't such an event a sign that the party is avoiding that kind of destruction?
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If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots.
I'll take the sucesses of 1984 and 1994. All Rove is going to give us is amnesty and defeat. Will this party wake up?
In 1984 we once again lost the House election. 2004 was a much bigger win.
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If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots.
In 2004 we got a 34 seat Electoral College majority, a 31 seat House majority (+3 on the previous election), and a 10 seat Senate majority (+4), only to lose the whole Congress two years later.
In 1984 we got a 512 seat Electoral College majority, a -71 seat House majority (+16), and a 3 seat Senate majority (-2), only to lose the whole Congress two years later.
Arguably, neither model is very good.
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If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots.
So reports The Corner.
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A wipeout for the Pence-meister. Too bad. I sent Rohrabacher an email this morning asking him to vote for Pence.
...with John Campbell, just down the 405 from you. Interesting to see if either one followed our plea.
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"I will guarantee you that John Kerry will be president of the United States." - Nancy Pelosi
I guess the reason for this is some combination of a) not wanting to blame the interim manager because the team started out so poorly last season, and b) taking the end of Hastert's run as the necessary element of change for improvement.
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If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots.
it is because the party is not interested in reforming itself back to conservatism and is instead concerned more with pork, power, and self-perpetuation.
I guess my letter to Frank Wolf (VA-10) wasn't enough to push Pence/Shadegg over the top.
I'll give Boehner a chance, but he really underwhelmed me on Brit Hume a few weeks ago (before the election).
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Say if ever thou didst find a woman with a constant mind
George W. Bush on Iraq, "Stay the course."
House Republicans on the future of the party, "Stay the course."
If we were to stay the course, it'd be Minority Leader Hastert and Minority Whip Boehner.
Hastert: the invisible Speaker. Yes, yes, I'm sure that was his selling point after Gingrich left, but still, you'd think politically-informed people would at least pay attention.
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If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots.
I guess the GOP side of the House will be run from the golf course!
Yep, business as usual.
Roy Blunt won as well. We can now say that the Republicans get it.
on Boehner v. Pence - very interesting, hadn't thought of it from this angle:
http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=M2M3NGY3NDFmOWMyOTQzZDZjYzJiMTAzY...
Must have been the rally cry as the caucus elected our new "leadership". It's in quotes for a reason folks because it's subject to interpretation. I'm personally still waiting for some leaders to take on the role in leadership in the party. The caucus had a chance today, a new direction was in our gun sights, we took the barrel swung it around and shot ourselves in the face. In two years we'll be pissed and wonder how we lost more seats.
What did Dennis Hastert get elected to?
How many heads do you want, people? Is this to be the Reign of Terror?
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If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots.
If heads must roll over the last election, those would be found in and about the White House, and even that shouldn't be our focus. As for "status quo", Exhibit A can be found as chair of the RNC--the cloning of Liz Dole. I am sorry, but after that choice I decided that the GOP congressional minority can do no wrong.
Congratulations to Reps. Boehner and Blunt. Hang tough regardless of who threatens our values as conservatives and Republicans.
any ideas?
the rationale being that if you don't vote for the "right person", you stand to be punished when it comes to committee assignments?
what a system.
I cannot believe the members of the House GOP have elected to stay the course with Boehner instead of returning to the basic principles of conservatism cherished by Pence. So much for Barry Goldwater's belief that "moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Well, I am disgusted! Absolutely disgusted with the members of the House GOP who made a RINO like Boehner the House GOP leader. I look forward to the day when grass roots activists like myself well rise up and tell these insincere House GOP members what Oliver Cromwell once told deserving members of Parliament:
"You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately... Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"
I think its time for conservatives to split from the GOP. If conservative values and principles are going to be relegated to the sidelines, as it appears with the election of Boehner as House GOP leader, then conservatives should quit whoring themselves out to the GOP and form their own separate party. I guarantee a new Conservative Party devoted to conservative principles would quickly eclipse the old GOP made up of RINOs just as the GOP once eclipsed the intellectually bankrupt Whigs.
I seem to recall yours being precisely the rationalle and bravado surrounding the launch of the Libertarian Party not so long ago.
How well has that worked out for them?
The answer is to fix the GOP - not abandon it. And the time to do that is in the primaries.
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"I don't know." -- Helen Thomas, when asked by White House spokesman Scott McClellan, "Are we at war, Helen?"
A year or so back, I made this pledge: Despite NCLB, BCRA, Medicare Part D, The Powell-era FCC, and all that, I was giving the party until 2008 to get its act together.
Well, the time is now for us to nominate a good leader who will unify the base and continue the progress we've made since 1980 and 1994.
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If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots.
I thought a good drubbing at the polls would shake up the leadership of the GOP, but I guess not.
I'll give the upcoming leadership a chance to prove themselves, but they should consider themselves on probation.
As conservatives, we need to hold their feet to the fire.
"Back in the thirties we were told we must collectivize the nation because the people were so poor. Now we are told we must collectivize the nation because the people are so rich. "
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Just a comment: we've gone very quickly from not being willing to carry water to being "quite willing to work with you to advance the Republican cause."
I hope we dig our heels in and fight a bit longer than two weeks.
The GOP has abandoned the conservatives so there is really no merit to the notion that conservatives should not abandon the GOP.
How dumb do you think we are?
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If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots.
"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal comfort... has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill