thehill.com - 11/19/2008
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After vanquishing Rep. Mike Pence two years ago, Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) followed a theory often said but rarely practiced in Washington: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Pence and Boehner were never bitter enemies, but they were adversaries for one of Washington’s ...
thehill.com - 11/14/2008
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thehill.com —
Rep. Dan Lungren announced Friday that he will
challenge Rep. John Boehner for House Republican leader. Lungren
(Calif.) is considered a longshot to unseat Boehner (Ohio), who moved quickly after last week's election to shore up support in the GOP ...
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Lungren will challenge Boehner for top GOP spot
blogs.abcnews.com - 11/14/2008
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blogs.abcnews.com —
ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: A conservative California
congressman announced Friday that he's mounting a leadership challenge
to House Minority Leader John Boehner, as the GOP continues to assess the fallout from last week’s election losses. Rep. Dan ...
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Boehner to Face Leadership Challenge
blogs.tnr.com - 11/19/2008
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blogs.tnr.com —
Normal 0 The House Republican leadership elections are
today, and GOPers will almost certainly reselect John Boehner,
their eternally tan, chain-smoking, long-suffering caporegime, as their leader - and not only that, but they'll also probably ...
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John Boehner, Cleverest Republican in Washington
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The Stump —
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of whip, currently held by Roy Blunt, who's graciously giving way to Cantor. ("Blunt fell
on his sword for Boehner," says one GOP aide.) Right-wing power broker Mike
Pence, who ran against Boehner for leader in 2006, was gently lured into the
fold when Boehner let him take the lead on the House GOP's big August
pro-drilling push and then effusively praised him for it.
("I'm starting to understand why [the House GOP conference] went with John
Boehner," Pence gushed in return after the episode.) ...
House HOP Leadership Elections
Swampland —
... the conference to make a bold change of leadership given the 50 seats that have been lost in the lost two cycles. Boehner, though, is savvy and in the last two years has formed an interesting partnership with Mike Pence, moving the quasi-moderate who drafted No Child Left Behind and pensions legislation with Teddy Kennedy to the right. As the Brookings' Tom Mann told me: “The House Republican party is sharply tilted to the right. Boehner is holding on by responding to that reality. I suspect he will be a caretaker of a party whose political fortunes will get worse before they ...
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(CNN) — House Republican reelected Rep. John Boehner of Ohio as their party's leader in the chamber Wednesday, winning a second term over challenger and California Rep. Dan Lungren.
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