I heard the results of the GOP House caucus elections – Boehner retains the (I’m not kidding, this is really what they call it) “leadership” post – and was…<\/p>\n
…underwhelmed?<\/p>\n
First Ringer at TvM puts it well<\/a>:<\/p>\n Proving themselves to be the political equivalent of William Ford to the GOP leadership\u2019s Matt Millen, Republicans in D.C. re-elected Rep. John Boehner (R-OH)\u00a0to the post of minority leader despite the party\u2019s nearly 20 seat dip two weeks ago.\u00a0 Surviving a last-minute challenge by conservative California Rep. Dan Lungren, Boehner once again pick up his mantle of leadership <\/font><\/a>and tossed it at the feet of the incoming Democrat supermajority:<\/p>\n \u201cAmerica needs us to be the party of reform again,\u201d Mr. Boehner told House Republicans Wednesday. \u201cWe have a chance to pull together and be the party America needs us to be.<\/p>\n \u201cI wasn\u00b4t born a Republican \u2026 I didn\u00b4t know I was a Republican until I looked up one day and realized Washington was at odds with everything I believed. If history is any guide, millions of Americans will have a similar experience in the coming months as President-elect Obama and the Democrat Congress move their agenda. Our job is to make sure those Americans find a proud home in the Republican Party.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I doubt if Speaker Pelosi\u2019s heels buckled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It wasn’t all <\/em>bad – some youth and conservative fervor in the form of Cantor and Pence got moved up the ranks – but if Conservatives were looking for a resounding tonic from today’s maneuvering, we’re still waiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I heard the results of the GOP House caucus elections – Boehner retains the (I’m not kidding, this is really what they call it) “leadership” post – and was… …underwhelmed? First Ringer at TvM puts it well: Proving themselves to be the political equivalent of William Ford to the GOP leadership\u2019s Matt Millen, Republicans in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}