Arizona: John Boehner

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The Democratic National Committee released a new web ad on Tuesday evening, accusing the Republican Party of being taken over by an angry mob of "birther" conspiracy theorists and disgruntled partisans. DNC Goes All In: Takes On Birthers, Conservative "Mob" In New Web Ad

The spot, titled "Enough of the Mob," is as engaged as the Democratic Party has been to date with what its own leadership has deemed a fringe element of the GOP. But, with boisterous protests routinely interrupting Democratic town hall events and dominating news coverage, one DNC official put it succinctly: "We aren't going to back down from this shit.

The Climate Change Bill, HR 2454, supported by Rep. Giffords on Friday with a “Yes” vote appears to be generating serious discomfort for some Democrats. And not because House Minority Leader, Rep. John Boehner colorfully likened this bill to manure.

An apparent defender of Giffords made extensive comments on yesterday’s post on this blog tried to downplay the bill as not really costing Arizonans that much at all.

However, in The Hill Mississippi Rep. Gene Taylor, a Democrat, was quoted as saying that “yes” votes forced by House leadership on this bill could hurt Dems in conservative districts. His quote in The Hill: “A lot of people walked the plank on a bill that will never become law.

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From First Read:

Let’s be honest: Yesterday’s House Republican budget rollout was a P.R. disaster for the GOP. “Here it is, Mr. President” was the title of the GOP Leader blog touting that they had answered Obama’s dare to produce a budget. The problem -- their budget rollout didn’t contain any hard budget numbers or deficit projections. They say those hard numbers will come out next week. But now we learn that Reps. Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan objected to unveiling yesterday’s “blueprint,” but were overruled by Reps. John Boehner and Mike Pence. But bigger than any internal disagreements or any criticism about a lack of details is the fact that yesterday’s GOP non-announcement moved the attention away from the Obama-vs.

Phil Gingrey got lots of plaudits yesterday for slapping right-wing talk shows yesterday:

I mean, it’s easy if you’re Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or even sometimes Newt Gingrich to stand back and throw bricks. You don’t have to try to do what’s best for your people and your party.You know you’re just on these talk shows and you’re living well and plus you stir up a bit of controversy and gin the base and that sort of thing. But when it comes to true leadership, not that these people couldn’t be or wouldn’t be good leaders, they’re not in that position of John Boehner or Mitch McConnell.

Of course, it wasn’t long afterward that Gingrey was forced to make an appology for offending Rush Limbaugh. Wow.

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