[txrangerette]

Lamar Smith, 21st District of Texas, incoming chair of House Judiciary, which is Holder’s oversight committee.

[txhurl]

Smith is my/our guy. I/We should drop by the office (Westlake) and express my/our support.

[lentulusgracchus]

Lamar Smith, 21st District of Texas, incoming chair of House Judiciary, which is Holder’s oversight committee.

Well, that's a good point. How much backbone do you think Lamar has?

Does he have it all, if Boehner starts clubbing him the way he did Joe Barton last summer?

Boehner's shown his hand --

• he likes to be a Rockefeller Republican seller of indulgences to industry,
  
• he likes to spend all his political chips on tax breaks for business,
  
• he likes to club Republicans into line by threatening to throw them off committees, aaaannnd
  
• he likes all kinds of RiNO's, and conservatives and Tea Party people not so much.

Want to refigger any?

[lentulusgracchus]

What I'm thinking Boehner is going to do is, he'll let Lamar turn up the heat a bit and get Holder to squirming, .....

And then Boehner will take the phone call from the White House and do a deal over Lamar's head, sell out Lamar, and cash the committee's political chips for a tax break for the Chamber of Commerce, or contracts in Ohio, or keeping an Air Force Base open.

Or maybe just a "get out of jail" card that Boehner can give some congressional RiNO good old fellow that gets caught with his pants down in the men's room.

Something like that.