This week Newt Gingrich challenged House Republicans to do something dramatic to avoid oblivion. So what did the Republicans decide to do? Form a committee!

Boehner's GOP fix: A new committee
By: Patrick O'Connor
Faced with dire predictions of an electoral bloodbath in November, House Republican leader John A. Boehner responded Wednesday by creating a committee to advise the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.), who will serve on the committee, said its existence will show that Boehner and NRCC Chairman Tom Cole “understand” that they need to work closely together.
Critics likened the plan to placing a Band-Aid on a gaping wound.
“It’s a joke,” one Republican member said. “And not even a well-written one.”
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I beg to differ - it's written beautifully for us Democrats!
Republicans are pretending this committee will help them coordinate their efforts better. But the real reason for the committee is to shift blame away from House Minority Leader John Boehner and NRCC chair Tom Cole by spreading it around to everyone in the Republican caucus.

The group includes Boehner loyalists such as Kline, Ohio Rep. Patrick J. Tiberi and California Rep. Devin Nunes, who first raised the prospect of this outside group months ago.
Two other members of the group are Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor, the party’s chief deputy whip, and California Rep. Kevin O. McCarthy, whom Boehner tapped as policy chairman for the GOP nominating convention. Those two, along with Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, founded the Young Guns, a group of House Republicans who are raising money for GOP candidates challenging incumbent Democrats...
Former NRCC Chairman Tom Davis, currently the head of the NRCC executive committee, has also been tapped to join the new advisory committee...
The two chairmen of the party’s biggest fundraising dinners — Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling and California Rep. Darrell Issa — will also serve on the advisory board, as will GOP Policy Chairman Thaddeus G. McCotter, the quirkiest member of the elected leadership, and Michigan Rep. Candice S. Miller.
Boehner and Cole round out the group.
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The real agenda is obvious: when Republicans get crushed, the "Young Guns" won't be able to blame the "Old Hacks" and take their power away.
But it's a mystery to me why anyone would want to be the leader of the Republicans after the American people foreclose on the bankrupt Republican Party.
Update 1: Last week's DUI arrest of Vito "Vino" Fossella (NY13) is turning into a much bigger scandal.

Fossella was specific with the arresting officer about where he was headed. He gave a street name where he said he was picking up his daughter. That street, it turns out, is the same street where retired Lt. Col. Laura Fay lives with her three-year-old daughter. Fay, according to the New York Daily News, picked up Fossella from the police station.
When asked by the Daily News earlier this week whether Fossella fathered Fay's daughter, Fossella's crisis communications consultant, Susan Del Percio, declined to answer. "This is a demeaning and highly inappropriate question," she said...
Fay's ex-husband, Guy Michael Shoaf, filed for divorce in 2005. According to their divorced records in the Circuit Court of Arlington County, "there were no children born or adopted of the marriage" between them.
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Do the math - who's the daddy? And why do you think Laura and Guy got divorced?


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I think the House Republicans should form a committee for the elimination of liberalism in all public institutions and government under the basis of the separation of church and state.

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