Boehner’s Earned My Respect
Friday, January 18th, 2008When Tom DeLay stepped down as Majority Leader, I let it be known that I didn’t think highly of John Boehner as his replacement. As I said here, my image of Rep. Boehner is starting to change. Today, after reading Andrew Roth’s post, I can enthusiastically say that John Boehner has earned my respect:
Boehner Holds Off On Filling Appropriations Vacancy Pending Conference Discussion On Earmarks.
Yesterday, House Minority Leader John Boehner told his House Republican colleagues that they were destined to remain in the political wilderness if they couldn’t kick their spending habits. Today, he took that debate one step further, announcing that the Steering Committee will not make an appointment to the vacant Appropriations Committee seat until after the House Republican retreat, where the GOP Leader has urged that a conference-wide discussion take place on earmarks. (more…)
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