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While I am among those disgusted with the conduct of the past few Congresses, as a Republican and a conservative I do hope that the party can clean house quickly and get back to doing its job. The recent scandals over earmarks, pork, budget deficits, and runaway spending only confirm the importance of reducing the size of government so that there are less spoils over which to fight in the first place. It is for this precise reason that conservatives have supported the Republican Party in the past, and why conservatives must hope for its recovery now. There are, however...
...matchup is much less simple. Murtha, despite his closeness to Pelosi, is a pro-life Democrat and actually more conservative than Hoyer, who is likely to get the votes of many liberal members who have backed Pelosi in the past. At a time when both parties are worried about pork-barrel spending, Murtha's longtime role on the House Appropriations Committee, where he secured members' votes with promises of getting special spending earmarks in their districts, could send the wrong message. Also, Murtha doesn't have the perfect record for a party trying to ease voters' concerns about Washington corruption...
...scandal-plagued former Majority Whip, Tom DeLay. So much of the spending many House conservatives hated, such as the 2003 Medicare prescription drug bill that President Bush pushed them to approve, happened before Boehner was in the leadership. And Boehner is famous for having never asked for any wasteful pork-barrel projects for his own district, a stance many fiscal conservatives like. Missouri congressman Roy Blunt, who will face Shadegg in the race for Majority Leader, will have a more difficult task running a campaign as a change agent, since he's been in the House leadership for several years...
...have a concrete source: Allen's mother was, in fact, Jewish, though Allen took pains to emphasize he was not raised in the faith. "I still had a ham sandwich for lunch," he boasted on the day he finally confirmed his mother's background. "And my mother made great pork chops...
...that, Yarmuth said in an ebullient acceptance speech Tuesday night, was precisely the key to his victory over Anne Northup, who coasted to a landslide win two years ago and has spent her 10 years in office mastering pork-barrel politics from her perch on the Appropriations Committee...