Looking good!
"Diverse faces, strident voices among newest GOP members" by Erica Werner | Associated Press November 09, 2014
WASHINGTON — Meet the new House Republicans.
There’s Mia Love from Utah, the first black Republican woman to serve in the House.
What?
At 30, Elise Stefanik of upstate New York is the youngest woman elected to Congress.
Carlos Curbelo is the son of Cuban exiles in Florida.
‘‘We’re back with youth, we’re back with diversity, and we’re back with women,’’ Representative Greg Walden, the Republican from Oregon who heads the National Republican Congressional Committee, said after Tuesday’s elections, when House Republicans increased their majority to levels not seen in decades.
But Republicans also are welcoming some vocal new members on the right; some are replacing more moderate GOP lawmakers who retired. These new members could increase the ranks of Tea Party-backed conservatives who have created persistent trouble for House Speaker John Boehner, Republican of Ohio.
:-)
They could also divide the party just as Boehner and other GOP leaders are determined to show they can deliver after taking back the Senate.
Well, let's hope so. The standing on principles bothers the agenda-pushing ma$$ media, and therefore must be good.
In North Carolina, Mark Walker is a pastor who suggested using fighter jets to deal with illegal immigration. He says his comments were taken out of context and he was talking about opposing drug cartels.
Well, we seem to use them to deal with just about everything else.
In Wisconsin, a longtime and low-key Republican, Tom Petri, is being replaced by firebrand state lawmaker Glenn Grothman, who referred to protesters at the state Capitol in Madison as ‘‘a bunch of slobs’’ and has opposed equal-pay legislation because ‘‘you could argue that money is more important for men.’’
I like firebrands, if only by propaganda pre$$ definition.
Now I'm waiting for the word "insurgent" to be used.
In Georgia, Jody Hice, a Baptist minister and conservative talk show host, has said that being gay is a lifestyle that ‘‘enslaves’’ people and that he doesn’t have a problem with a woman being in politics as long as she’s ‘‘within the authority of her husband.’’
Ryan Zinke, a former Navy SEAL elected in Montana, has called Hillary Rodham Clinton ‘‘the antichrist.’’
How do we know she is not?
I mean, I think the guy has already stepped off the stage, but.... it's the seven year reign and destruction of Babylon bit that brought about all the persecution, doncha know?
He wasn't part of SEAL Team 6, was he?
‘‘Do I really believe that she is the antichrist? That answer would be ‘no,’ ’’ Zinke said in an interview. ‘‘But I do get a little emotional about Benghazi, and I, like the rest of America, want answers.’’
We are never going to get them, but.... he's just asking for it, isn't he?
In 2012, when Clinton was secretary of state, the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed in the eastern city of Benghazi when militants stormed a US diplomatic post and fired on a CIA compound nearby.
Some Republicans argue the US military held back aid that could have saved lives and that President Obama and Clinton lied to the public about the nature of the attack.
They did.
For Boehner, his new Republican colleagues are part of an empowered majority on track to increase its ranks from 234 to at least 244 lawmakers — the highest total since the Truman administration.
The bigger numbers should give Boehner more room to maneuver as he tries to assemble the 218 votes needed to pass legislation.
But it’s clear that the most zealous wing of the party that repeatedly has forced Boehner to pull legislation such as a farm bill from the floor, toughen immigration policy, or force a government shutdown over the president’s health law will still be a force to reckon with.
I guess you can include me in that even though I do not self-identify with either party, and have been excommunicated from that faction for certain beliefs I have (look around the page and I think you will see why).
‘‘That’s an inherent instability that’s always lurking in the background for Boehner and company,’’ said Representative Gerry Connolly, Democrat of Virginia.
:-)
Drove him to drink, did we?
Boehner laughed off questions about some of the incendiary comments.
‘‘Yes, we have some new members who’ve made some statements, I’ll give you that,’’ he said this past week. ‘‘But when you look at the vast majority of the new members that are coming in here, they’re really solid members. ... We’ve done a very good job of recruiting good candidates.’’
So what's the fir$t order of bu$ine$$?
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The women around here are griming that the right, er, left, 'er, well, women lost in what otherwise was a pretty good night for them.
Related: Scott Brown faced a mountain of media-inflated hype
Who?
Also see: Politics For Lunch
Speaking of (sand)wich.
