brendan-nyhan.com - 11/14/2008
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Despite the election results, it looks like House Republicans are going to shift their leadership in a conservative direction. My friend and colleague Mike Brady , who studies Congress, put together a nice graph illustrating this point (the line represents DW-Nominate estimated ideal points on ...
republican-leadership.com - 11/14/2008
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republican-leadership.com —
Inspired by a drive to get back to
the fundamentals of the Republican Party, Senator John Danforth...
, Lt. Governor Michael Steele , and Governor Christine Todd Whitman created the political organization the Republican Leadership Council, which ...
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About Us | Republican Leadership Council
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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House GOP Leadership Gets More Conservative
Matthew Yglesias —
... based on DW-NOMINATE scores shows that the 110th Congress GOP leadership was somewhat to the right of the median House Republican, and that the proposed new leadership for the 111th Congress is even further right: ...
Boehner to face leadership challenge
Political Animal —
... that successful leadership bids "are usually announced right after an election. Lungren waited 10 days to make his announcement, which he made in a 'Dear Colleague' letter." ABC News' report described Lungren's bid as "a conservative challenge to Boehner." I suppose that's largely true -- Lungren is very conservative -- but no one can seriously suggest Boehner is some kind of moderate. We're talking about two wings of the Republican Party here - the far-right and the even-further right .— ...
Embracing the Loop
Newshoggers.com —
... established, the non-Southern or non-movement conservative groupings have taken a beaten and now via Brendan Nyhan, it looks like the GOP is electing an even more hardline leadership in the House of Representatives. The old leadership was slightly to the right of the 2007-2008 GOP caucus, but not by a whole lot. The new leadership is to the far right of the 2007-2008 caucus but it may not be that much more of a deviation from the 2009 caucus as the GOP's centrists got creamed in 2008 following up their 2006 ass-kicking. ...
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Lungren to challenge Boehner —
First Read 11/14/2008
From NBC's Mike ViqueiraAt a press conference today, Rep. Dan Lungren (R) announced a long-shot bid to unseat GOP Rep. John Boehner as House minority leader. Leadership elections are penciled in for next Wednesday.
Lungren says that the party is too ...
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