New Majority Leader Election Date Rejected

[sabra]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5539176,00.html

New Majority Leader Election Date Rejected


Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republican leaders Wednesday rejected calls to move up the election of a new majority leader to replace Tom DeLay before President Bush's State of the Union address Jan. 31.

Speaker Dennis Hastert decided Wednesday to stick with a Feb. 2 caucus election scheduled after DeLay, facing trial in Texas on charges of laundering campaign funds, said last weekend he would not try to regain the post.

Supporters of Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt, currently the No. 3 Republican in the House as party whip, had called this week for holding the election before the House reconvenes Jan. 31. Blunt, who has been acting as majority since DeLay's indictment, is seeking election to the job in a race against Ohio Rep. John Boehner, chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee.

Blunt claims to have more support than Boehner has. But with many Republicans undecided and some calling for a third alternative, Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., has declined to take himself out of the running.

[napi21]

1. And the difference of two days is...WHAT?

What am I missing here? The difference between a Tuesday and a Thursday? Who the hell cares?

What's happening on Feb 1st????

[merwin]

2. They want that to deflect the news from Bush's failed SOTU speech.

[napi21]

4. Oh BS! Shrub doesn't screw up his SOTU speech, his writer do!

I doubt very much the drama of a new majority leader is going to make his mess go away either!

[PhilipShore]

3. ABC/AP:New Majority Leader Election Date Rejected

ABC
Andrew Taylor
Associated Press Writer
Jan 11, 2006

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1495091

WASHINGTON Jan 11, 2006 — House Republican leaders Wednesday rejected calls to move up the election of a new majority leader to replace Tom DeLay...

[pinerow]

5. They want to keep the devil they know...etc..

nt

[pinerow]

6. They want to keep the devil they know...etc..

nt

[splat@14]

7. Repub Leader election, Feb 2nd. Standings; Blunt-59, Boehner-30

Can't figure The repubs liking Blunt in view of the possibility he may have to step down after he is indicted. Would be pretty embarrassing to have two Majority leaders in a row have to bow out.....Not sure but I think I like it. No, I'm sure, I do like it!
Splat!



By Patrick O'Connor
Republican Conference Chairwoman Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio) announced Wednesday that the elections for a new majority leader would be held on Thursday, Feb. 2, two days after President Bush is scheduled to deliver his State of the Union address.

The announcement came three hours after the conference office sent members an email asking if they had any objections to returning to Washington a few days early in order to hold the elections on either Jan. 26 or 27.

The Republican Study Committee (RSC) sent out an email immediately afterward reminding members that the earlier elections would occur before RSC members could meet to interview the candidates at their annual retreat, according to aides who had seen the email. The Conservative Member Retreat is scheduled for Jan. 30 and 31 in Baltimore.

“Following up on the member’s conference call on Monday night, the Conference is canvassing all members to check availability to be in Washington to conduct an election for Majority Leader,” the conference email read.

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/011106/election.html

DAILY TALLY IN MAJORITY LEADER RACE

PUBLIC SUPPORTERS

Roy Blunt-59 votes

Todd Akin (Mo.)
Rodney Alexander (La.)
Richard Baker (La.)
Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.)
Henry Bonilla (Texas)
Jo Bonner (Ala.)
John Boozman (Ark.)
Jeb Bradley (N.H.)
Kevin Brady (Texas)
Ginny Brown-Waite (Fla.)
Dave Camp (Mich.)
Shelley Moore Capito (W.V.)
Tom Cole (Okla.)
Ander Crenshaw (Fla.)
Tom Davis (Va.)
Charlie Dent (Pa.)
Lincoln Diaz-Balart (Fla.)
Mario Diaz-Balart (Fla.)
Nathan Deal (Ga.)
John Doolittle (Calif.)
John Duncan, Jr. ( Tenn.)
Jo Ann Emerson (Mo.)
Mike Ferguson (N.J.)
Mike Fitzpatrick (Pa.)
Mark Foley (Fla.)
Rodney Frelinghuysen (N.J.)
Kay Granger (Texas)
Bob Goodlatte (Va.)
Sam Graves (Mo.)
Ralph Hall (Texas)
Katherine Harris (Fla.)
Kenny Hulshof (Mo.)
Duncan Hunter (Calif.)
Darrel Issa (Calif.)
Bobby Jindal (La.)
Nancy Johnson (Conn.)
Jack Kingston (Ga.)
Mark Kirk (Ill.)
Jim Leach (Iowa)
John Mica (Fla.)
Candice Miller (Mich.)
Sue Myrick (N.C.)
Charlie Norwood (Ga.)
Thomas Petri (Wis.)
Adam Putnam (Fla.)
Dave Reichert (Wash.)
Rick Renzi (Ariz.)
Dana Rohrbacher (Calif.)
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.)
Clay Shaw (Fla.)
Chris Shays (Conn.)
Lamar Smith (Texas)
Greg Walden (Ore.)
Curt Weldon (Pa.)
Charles Taylor (N.C.)
Tom Tancredo (Colo.)
Jim Walsh (N.Y.)
Jerry Weller (Ill.)
Lynn Westmoreland (Ga.)
Roger Wicker (Miss.)
Joe Wilson (S.C.)


John Boehner- 30 votes

Gresham Barrett (S.C.)
Charles Boustany (La.)
Steve Buyer (Ind.)
Mike Castle (Del.)
Steve Chabot (Ohio)
Ken Calvert (Calif.)
Howard Coble (N.C.)
Vern Ehlers (Mich.)
Wayne Gilchrest (Md.)
Paul Gillmor (Ohio)
Melissa Hart (Pa.)
Dave Hobson (Ohio)
Sam Johnson (Texas)
John Kline (Minn.)
Ray LaHood (Ill.)
Tom Latham (Iowa)
Steve LaTourette (Ohio)
Kenny Marchant (Texas)
Thad McCotter (Mich.)
Buck McKeon (Calif.)
Gary Miller (Calif.)
Anne Northup (Ky.)
Devin Nunes (Calif.)
Mike Oxley (Ohio)
Steve Pearce (N.M.)
Jon Porter (Nev.)
Jim Ramstad (Minn.)
Jim Saxton (N.J.)
Pete Sessions (Texas)
Mike Simpson (Idaho)
Lee Terry (Neb.)
Pat Tiberi (Ohio)
Ed Whitfield (Ky.)

[MidwestTransplant]

8. I think it would be great if it were Boehner

because anybody who reads his name will read it as Majority Leader "Boner" (R) - OH!

[splat@14]

9. Yea, that would be "hard" to pass up!

[Selteri]

10. Hard Pun to overlook

Now for the real hard quickly that everyone is standing at attention to ask...

Are either of these schmoes unnamed in some scandal? I think Boner is involved with Noe and Abramoff.

And I'm positive Blunt has Abramhoff ties also.