The Boner and Mike Pence are both running for minority leader

[AlCzervik]

let the bloodbath begin.

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/

[valerief]

1. Fox calls it Minority Speaker. nt

[KingFlorez]

2. I think Pence will win

The Republicans are automatically going to swing further to the right now.

[AlCzervik]

3. i agree, the Boner's days are numbered.

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. Me too. n/t

[greeneyedboy]

4. their fragile coalition has crumbled. neocons can no longer fool the fundies & real conservatives

remember the days when most Republicans were just wrong on the issues, not insane?

[napi21]

5. Wasn't Penceone of the 2 Congressmen who forced

Negroponti toput the nuke info on the net? I'm pretty sure that's the name I read.

If that's true, I really don't know who's worse, Pence or Boenner???

[AlCzervik]

7. i think that Hoekstra and Roberts.

[napi21]

11. It WAS Pence who first brought the subject of releasing those docs

to the internet. Check here:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/011/945usqnx.asp

On February 16, President George W. Bush assembled a small group of congressional Republicans for a briefing on Iraq. Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley were there, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad participated via teleconference from Baghdad. As the meeting was beginning, Mike Pence spoke up. The Indiana Republican, a leader of conservatives in the House, was seated next to Bush.

"Yesterday, Mr. President, the war had its best night on the network news since the war ended," Pence said.

"Is this the tapes thing?" Bush asked, referring to two ABC News reports that included excerpts of recordings Saddam Hussein made of meetings with his war cabinet in the years before the U.S. invasion. Bush had not seen the newscasts but had been briefed on them.

Pence framed his response as a question, quoting Abraham Lincoln: "One of your Republican predecessors said, 'Give the people the facts and the Republic will be saved.' There are 3,000 hours of Saddam tapes and millions of pages of other documents that we captured after the war. When will the American public get to see this information?"

Bush replied that he wanted the documents released. He turned to Hadley and asked for an update. Hadley explained that John Negroponte, Bush's Director of National Intelligence, "owns the documents" and that DNI lawyers were deciding how they might be handled.


Bush told Hadley to expedite the release of the Iraq documents. "This stuff ought to be out. Put this stuff out." The president would reiterate this point before the meeting adjourned. And as the briefing ended, he approached Pence, poked a finger in the congressman's chest, and thanked him for raising the issue. When Pence began to restate his view that the documents should be released, Bush put his hand up, as if to say, "I hear you. It will be taken care of."

It was not the first time Bush has made clear his desire to see the Iraq documents released. On November 30, 2005, he gave a speech at the U.S. Naval Academy. Four members of Congress attended: Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the Michigan Republican who chairs the House Intelligence Committee; Sen. John Warner, the Virginia Republican who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee; Rep. John Shadegg of Arizona; and Pence. After his speech, Bush visited with the lawmakers for 10 minutes in a holding room to the side of the stage. Hoekstra asked Bush about the documents and the president said he was pressing to have them released.

[deadparrot]

8. It still sounds so glorious..."minority leader."

:)

[burythehatchet]

9. Slightly off topic

the most memorable CSPAN call ever was a guy who called when Pence was on and at the end of his comments he said something like..."what's that on your chin, oh it looks like an imprint of Karl Rove's balls"

[AlCzervik]

10. omg lol!!!!!