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thehill.com - 11/14/2008

Lungren will challenge Boehner for top GOP spot

— 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 ... (more) Lungren will challenge Boehner for top GOP spot

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blogs.abcnews.com - 11/14/2008

Boehner to Face Leadership Challenge

— 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 ... (more) Boehner to Face Leadership Challenge

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hotair.com - 11/15/2008

Lungren vs Boehner for House Minority Leader

— hotair.com — Read this post » (more) Lungren vs Boehner for House Minority Leader

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MIDDAY ROUNDUP
News — ... of lesser intelligence undercuts those arguments, The Corner’s Jonah Goldberg says. The problem with the GOP is not too close a relationship with God, but too close a relationship with President Bush, Robert Stacy McCain claims. FROM THE BLOGS: [image] Waxman Versus Dingell – Ezra Klein [image] Kathleen Parker Has Left the Building – Athenae, First Draft [image] Maureen Dowd Wannabe – Robert S. McCain, The Other McCain [image] Boehner, Cleverest Republican in DC – Eve Fairbanks, The Stump [image] ...

Boehner's luck
Political Animal — ... " challenger Rep. Dan Lungren (Calif.). This wasn't a surprise, but the decision is nevertheless odd. Indeed, Eve Fairbanks had a good piece this morning, explaining that the GOP support for Boehner "seems nothing short of crazy." In 1998, Newt Gingrich lost the GOP less than ten House seats and was promptly defenestrated. Boehner has not only presided over the loss of more than fifty seats for the party, but he also suffered a humiliating defection by rank-and-file conservatives on September's bailout bill -- a mutiny that I was certain, then, presaged a bigger challenge ...

Boehner Beats Lungren As Minority Leader-- But Is Forced To Take On Two Far Right Extremists
DownWithTyranny! — ... today on behalf of all the GOP's walking wounded. He only got a small handful of votes against the seemingly teflon Boehner. "It's as though the captain of the Titanic survived and got tapped to run another transatlantic cruise." ...