In a televised debate Sunday, Rep. Joseph Cao (R-LA) punted on the question of whether he’d support either John Boehner or Nancy Pelosi for Speaker next Congress, claiming against credulity that he was unfamiliar with either House leaders’ platforms.
“I will weigh those two names between Speaker Pelosi and John Boehner” Cao said. “I have not heard of their platforms. I have not read what they’re looking for with respect to the country. So I will weigh those names, if those are the two names, and I will weigh them equally like I weigh other issues.”
As his Democratic opponent Cedric Richmond pointed out, House Republicans have for weeks been touting the so-called Pledge to America as their governing agenda for the 112th Congress, and Speaker Pelosi has been, well, advancing her agenda for the past two years, all during Cao’s term.
Richmond, for the record, vowed to back Pelosi for Speaker. Watch here, about 10 minutes in.
