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| Boehner re-elected House Republican leader |
| 2006-11-17 |
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Boehner of Ohio won re-election as Republican leader of the House of Representatives on Friday -- 10 days after American voters turned over control of the legislative body to Democrats. In a secret tally, House Republicans stuck with Boehner and rejected a challenge by Mike Pence of Indiana, an arch conservative. Pence had argued the party had lost its way in a year that saw it battered by the Iraq war, mounting federal deficits and congressional scandals. sarcasm/ Yeah, House Repubs, that's the message the voters sent you: they want more of the same leadership that allowed scandal and earmarks and overspending and idiocy. /sarcasm. Sigh... time to get ready for President Hillary and a Dem Congress in 08. Stupid stupid stupid inside the beltway idiots. They got stuck on stupid. |
| Posted by:OldSpook |
| #5 So with Nancy Pelosi's assurance of the (ahem) most open, honest Congress ever, is there hope for an end to earmarks? (Not ENTIRELY rhetorical...) |
| Posted by: eLarson 2006-11-17 16:29 |
| #4 I guess you could say we have a Republican Blunt Boehner tag team. |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2006-11-17 15:32 |
| #3 CFG has been pretty effective at sending people ready to do the easy part and cut taxes. I'm afraid I've missed where any of your proteges seriously tried to cut any spending beyond somebody else's earmarks. Until politicians and citizens are ready to gore their own ox to cut spending, it's all make believe. |
| Posted by: Unereper Spavising4153 2006-11-17 15:23 |
| #2 Advertisement: Join CLUB FOR GROWTH. To date we have sent dozens of penny pinching tight wads to Congress, Mike Pence among them. In 2008, we'll send even more. When we reach the tipping point, entitlements will take a hit along with unnecessary departments and programs. C4G specializes in finding new candidates and getting them through the primaries and elected. Then, they are on their own, but we watch how they vote. If they are in trouble in future elections, we send them some funding. Because most primaries are nothing but popularity contests, and little is known of how candidates change once in DC like so many sheep, C4G relies on a candidates past performances and leadership displays and reports that to it's members. the members donate as much as they like within limits to whomever they like. It's a free service, although C4G would also appreciate donations so they can run ads wherever necessary. There are also state chapters which are working to reduce state spending and improve the gene pool. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-11-17 11:01 |
| #1 This is a representative democracy - somebody has to represent the stupid people. 25% of the country is stupid, 25% evil (and largely stupid as well), 50% don't care, and Rantburg is lost in roundoff error. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2006-11-17 10:50 |