On 11/5/2014 6:15 PM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 11/5/14 6:00 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:

With the mid-term election over there will be many new faces ... both
Republican and Democrats ... taking seats in Congress next year.

Only problem is that those in the leadership positions remain. They
just swap jobs in the Senate. Mitch McConnell is pretty much guarantied
the Senate Majority Leader position with Harry Reid pretty much
guarantied the Minority Leader position.

The House stays as it is most likely ... John Boehner as Speaker and
Nancy Pelosi as minority leader.

If I am not mistaken both houses of Congress must elect them to these
positions, although it is really just a formality.

It might be interesting for them *not* to hold those positions this time
around. Make Congress as clean and new as possible. Their influences
represent the past, not necessarily the future.


I wouldn't mind seeing Pelosi and Reid step aside for younger, tougher
leaders/advocates.

I'm going to love watching McConnell. I think Boehner knows what to do
but McConnell...he's a real pimp.



Funny but I feel the other way around. I see Boehner as a weak leader
who is just going along for the ride with golf course privileges most of
the time.

McConnell is a different story. With absolutely no charisma and a
personality that seems to border on sleazy, he's a true, professional
politician who knows how the system works and how to pull the strings.
Even in Kentucky he's not particularly well liked but he knows how to
bring home the bacon, so he keeps getting elected.

He may surprise you and actually get some things done. He's already
very subtly but cleverly beginning to make Ted Cruz a non-event in the
Republican Party's future.