Posted on 02/02/2006 10:51:37 AM PST by ZGuy
IT'S BOEHNER, 122-109
Bump to your excellent posts.
Well, Hastert can stay where he is as long as he wants I guess, unless booted by the Pubs losing their majority (unlikely in 2006, but possible), or by his Pub colleagues (that won't happen).
Er, Howlin, wasn't that the "Contract WITH America"?
:O)
Thanks for checking that out, Czar. My whole point was, if someone is posting a short sentence or two, no problem. Although I do place quotations around any phrase that isn't mine. It just lets everyone know, its not your doing, not your creation. Credits, sources and links are critical in an open forum like FR. Otherwise, if we didn't use them, the spirit of copyright laws are tossed in the trash and we're nothing but plagiarists.
Thanks...You are right.
If you don't act in an upright manner you deserve that with which you get stuck.
If you allow the Dems to sully your man to suit their concepts and shoot your own wounded then that is what you can expect when you get wounded. It is a principle.
I had not much of an opinion on this. Of the declared votes from Indiana representatives, 2 were for Boehner (Buyer and Chocola) and 1 was for Shadegg (Pence). All 3 were on local radio and made good cases for their decisions.
Since the election of a Majority Leader is based on who the representatives want, I am grateful that we have someone conservative and not someone like Chris Shay.
Now I am off to check other news.
Was he or was he NOT a Rep when he was elected PResident?
go back to misreading your Jane's Defence Weekly.
I live in the 6th district of MO and Blunt is the 7th, but I am really disappointed the guy from AZ didn't get it.
Yep, yep.
He's a graduate of Cincinnati Catholic Schools, and I believe he's out of Moeller High School, a former football dynasty around here. He might have played for them in their glory years. Those schools are solidly catholic and solidly pro-life, if that gives any insight into him. Xavier University graduate, too, if I remember a WLW news blurb correctly.
This is from the link you provided (thanks). I see what you mean. The Hill writer is stating that Boehner is offering an olive branch to the Rats, but there are no quotes attributing that statement directly to Boehner.
I would hope Boehnert said no such thing. We do need some "new tone(s) in Washington" directed at the Rats, just not the ones Bush was envisioning. The new tones would be made by a hammer making contact with a left wing Rat skull -- a nice, hollow, "thunk". We've been far too nice to these hacks, and it's time to adopt more realistic tactics. The old ones haven't been working for a very long time.
Agreed.
No, Mike is not wrong.
You are.
I spotted your post earlier today but decided not to bother. I am glad Mike bothered.
The original questions begs: When was the last time a US Congreesman from the House, was elected POTUS? As in a sitting US representative, NOT a former House member who was VP at the time of his election.
Thank you.... :)
I suspect that Mike meant going from a seat in the House to the Presidency.
Bush didn't do that, did he? Didn't he have an ambassadorship and CIA afterwards?
I don't know if anyone has ever gone directly from the House to the WHouse.
The President is a good man, but painfully wrong on the illegal alien issues. Boehnert would be well advised to side with the voters on this one. Bush is leaving--Boehnert isn't.
that is apparently what Peach meant when the question was posted.....
I know Lincoln was a Rep but I am not certain he was still a Rep when he was elected President...
WASHINGTON – West Chester Rep. John Boehner won an upset victory today to replace Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas as the new House majority leader.
The post, second in the House after Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., makes Boehner the highest-ranking Ohioan in the House since Speaker Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati died in 1931.
It’s a position that will bring increased clout to the Greater Cincinnati region – but no additional money for local projects. Boehner is one of a handful of lawmakers who refuse to earmark money for his district in the federal budget.
Boehner, 56, was chosen by fellow House Republicans during a secret election over acting Majority Leader Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz.
The win marks a comeback to the leadership table for Boehner, who has served as House Education and Workforce Committee chairman for the last five years.
The eight-term congressman served as Republican Conference chairman, the No. 4 post in the House, in the 1990s before being dumped out of leadership in 1998 following a failed coup against then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and Republicans losses in the mid-term election.
Well, now that you've calmed down, I'm glad to see you say that.
Although I do place quotations around any phrase that isn't mine.
I didn't notice that in 295.
It just lets everyone know, its not your doing, not your creation. Credits, sources and links are critical in an open forum like FR. Otherwise, if we didn't use them, the spirit of copyright laws are tossed in the trash and we're nothing but plagiarists.
I'm glad to see you using the word "we."
Got it. Thanks for clarifying.
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