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Oust Boehner and Blunt

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

November 14, 2006 -- Did the Republican leadership learn anything on Election Day? Did they finally get it that voters are fed up with politicians who use their office to raise money and get perks? Will the GOP return to the lean, ascetic, committed politics that animated its 1994 surge to power or will it resist change and choose leaders who skate on the edge of corruption in their bid for privilege? And, in the Senate, will the Republicans realize that they need a mechanic who can make the trains run on time to tie the Democrats in knots?

And do the Democrats realize that their surge to the top was not due to the outpouring of true leftist believers but because centrist, moderate candidates won swing states and districts, just as Clinton did in 1996?

The answer to these questions will be apparent in the leadership elections coming soon in both houses of Congress.

In the House, Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) will try to take Dennis Hastert

Morris is right. Republicans lost b/c they got greedy with their power and lost the vision that brought them that power in 1994.

dfarr Wrote:Morris is right. Republicans lost b/c they got greedy with their power and lost the vision that brought them that power in 1994.

What confuses me is that Dick Morris was one of Bill Clinton's top political advisors, yet all of his commentaries seem like the words of a right-leaning moderate.

BlazerSax Wrote:

dfarr Wrote:Morris is right. Republicans lost b/c they got greedy with their power and lost the vision that brought them that power in 1994.

What confuses me is that Dick Morris was one of Bill Clinton's top political advisors, yet all of his commentaries seem like the words of a right-leaning moderate.

Clinton was a fairly centrist president during his term. Especially his 2nd term (the term in which Morris worked the campaign for). Furthermore, for most of his political history Morris has done consulting primarily for Republican canidates. Basically he like most political consultants will go to whichever side is willing to pay the most for his expertise.

TenaciousBoy Wrote:

BlazerSax Wrote:

dfarr Wrote:Morris is right. Republicans lost b/c they got greedy with their power and lost the vision that brought them that power in 1994.

What confuses me is that Dick Morris was one of Bill Clinton's top political advisors, yet all of his commentaries seem like the words of a right-leaning moderate.

Clinton was a fairly centrist president during his term. Especially his 2nd term (the term in which Morris worked the campaign for). Furthermore, for most of his political history Morris has done consulting primarily for Republican canidates. Basically he like most political consultants will go to whichever side is willing to pay the most for his expertise.

Interesting.