The House GOP is content to dance with the girls it brought.
House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has defeated Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) 168-27 for the post of minority leader, and Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) has won 137-57 over Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ) for the post of minority whip, according to Roll Call.
Outgoing Speaker Dennis Hastert declined to seek a leadership post after his party lost its majority.
Uh-oh. There’s more news out this morning on the alleged domestic violence incident involving Rep. John Sweeney (R-NY)–something about New York State Police creating a scrubbed version of the police report. TPMMuckraker has the details.
From a statement this morning by Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO), on his election as House minority whip:
âFor twelve years, the Democrats have gotten away without leading, without offering an agenda, and without saying what theyâre actually for. Now they will be forced to govern.
âUnder this Republican leadership, the job of the Minority Whip will no longer be to go to the House floor every day and lose. Instead, each time we hold our team together and force the Democrats to vote like Democrats, weâll be taking one more step toward recapturing our majority in 2008.
âOne-hundred-forty-nine Democrats demonstrated yesterday that they are willing to buck Nancy Pelosi. Weâll work each day to give those Democrats a viable alternative to her liberal, San Francisco agenda.”
Bring it on.
Let me introduce you to my son, Sam. I just met him myself early Wednesday morning.
This is a picture of him two or three minutes after he was born but, as you can probably tell, before I told him that the Democrats had won the election.
His full name is Samuel Allon Marshall. We gave him the middle name Allon after my father, Alan, who died unexpectedly in August. The name means ‘Oak’ in Hebrew. And it was also the name of Yigal Allon, after whom he is also named, who was one of the founders of and later the commander of the Palmach, the elite commando unit of the Haganah, the predecessor of the IDF.
I introduced him to his mother, Millet.
And then I sat with him and told him about his grandfather while his mother finished up in surgery. He weighed in at an unexpectedly large 9 lbs. I remember hearing the nurse gasp when they first held him up.
He sleeps a lot. And eats.
To me he looks like a grumbly middle-aged man. But the doctors and nurses at the hospital keep saying how much he looks like me. So he’s given me a lot to think about.
I’m trying to think which historical figure Sen. Jame Inhofe (R-OK) is comparable to. Go take a look at this video of his appearance this morning on FOX, discussing global warming. Any suggestions?
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Look out robo callers!
Sen. Obama introduces bill to criminalize robo harassment.
Turns out Sen. Inhofe (R-OK) was tipped off to the “brainwashing” going at on the UN conference on global warming by his press flack, a former producer for Rush Limbaugh.
Lots of good nominees have come in for which historical figure most closely resembles the good Senator. More on that later.
John McCain: the Bush administration is hiding important global warming data — and breaking the law to do so.
There are six House seats still undecided. We give you the rundown here.
And more on the fight for Katherine Harris’ old seat, where Democrats are arguing that electronic voting machines might have thrown the race to the Republicans. There’s just nothing like a Florida recount battle, is there?