GOP leadership
Posted: September 16th, 2010, 2:40 am
I hope and am excited about the GOP taking back Congress, hopefully both houses. I am not a registered Republican but a very conservative independent. The Tea Party is the catalyst that is causing this tidal wave of conservatism and not the GOP itself. The Republican leadership has had plenty of opportunity to tell America what they will do for us and they have either failed to do so or just refused to do so.
These new "young guns" as they are being called are the ones that we should get behind as they are fighting for the people; they are not the establishment. I personally like John Boehner BUT he has had opportunity to lead and hasn't done as good a job as he could have. By simply saying NO to everything Obama is not enough especially since the dems have 60 votes anyway in the Senate and a majority in the house where Boehner is.
I think when nominations for Speaker of the House are made then people like Michelle Bachman, Marsha Blackburn, Mike Pence, etc should be considered as they stood up and joined the Tea Party caucus and have personally been behind this wave of new republicans. In the Senate McConnell should automatically get the nod either but Jim Demint should receive attention for majority leader.
The establishment should not be given the reigns of this new conservative Congress that we are hoping to have come January.
These new "young guns" as they are being called are the ones that we should get behind as they are fighting for the people; they are not the establishment. I personally like John Boehner BUT he has had opportunity to lead and hasn't done as good a job as he could have. By simply saying NO to everything Obama is not enough especially since the dems have 60 votes anyway in the Senate and a majority in the house where Boehner is.
I think when nominations for Speaker of the House are made then people like Michelle Bachman, Marsha Blackburn, Mike Pence, etc should be considered as they stood up and joined the Tea Party caucus and have personally been behind this wave of new republicans. In the Senate McConnell should automatically get the nod either but Jim Demint should receive attention for majority leader.
The establishment should not be given the reigns of this new conservative Congress that we are hoping to have come January.