It's almost as though last Tuesday never happened. According to Robert Novak:
In private conversation, Republican members of Congress
blame Majority Leader John Boehner and Majority Whip Roy Blunt in
no small part for their midterm election debacle. Yet, either
Boehner, Blunt or both are expected to be returned to their
leadership posts Friday. For good reason, the GOP often is called
"the stupid party."
And,
In fact, the voting records of Boehner and Blunt are
nearly identical to Pence's and Shadegg's. The difference between
them was demonstrated last Thursday when Blunt went to the Heritage
Foundation to campaign for his retention as whip. He delivered a
defense of earmarking, echoing the House appropriators' claim that
the elimination of earmarks would do "nothing but shift funding
decisions from one side of Pennsylvania Ave. to the
other."
Read it all, as they say.
topics:
John Boehner, Earmarks
