Entries tagged "GOP"
When Democrats lost seats in the 2002 midterm congressional election, then-House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt quietly decided not to run for re-election for that position. With Republicans losing House seats in both 2006 and 2008, expect GOP members to push for changes to their leadership. That could mean the ouster of House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, or GOP Whip Roy Blunt, R-Mo. Possible replacement candidates include Reps. Paul Ryan, 38, R-Wisc. and Eric Cantor, 45, R-Va., both lawmakers that led a high-profile ultimately unsuccessful effort to topple Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's $700 billion government purchase plan....
In case you missed it, Robert Novak has nominated Christopher Cox (pictured at left) as Republican presidential contender Sen. John McCain's running mate. Its easy to have overlooked the suggestion because he buried it in column about another Wall Street favorite topic, the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal. ...
