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...after the vote, the Republican National Committee launched a "Fire Nancy Pelosi" website that showed her roasting in the flames of hell; the fundraising effort raised more than $1 million in 48 hours. Representative Steve Driehaus, an Ohio Democrat, took exception when House minority leader John Boehner, a fellow Ohioan, said Driehaus "may be a dead man" after he voted for the bill. Driehaus later reported receiving death threats. Boehner's staff said his remark had not been meant to be taken literally, and Boehner issued an e-mailed statement condemning any violence. (See the top 10 Secret Service code...
...voters were confirmed Clintonites who didn’t ask themselves whether the Black candidate was going to represent their interests as a white person. The question on their minds was whether the big city, Harvard educated lawyer shared and was willing to protect the values of a rural Ohioan. To them, Obama’s election wasn’t about members of the elite trying to chase the cowboys out of the White House. It was about what the Democrats can do for “me,” to restore security and maybe a little optimism...
...against front-runner and current Majority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri for the party's number two spot amounted to storming the Bastille. "Boehner looked as shocked as all of us," said Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona after the vote. But at the same time, the Ohioan's own longstanding and close ties to K Street lobbyists virtually guarantees that he'll keep the fundraising machine DeLay so skillfully built up running smoothly as his party heads to November's expensive political battles. In essence, the Republicans managed to vote both for and against a break with the DeLay...
...earmarks. The once rare but now common practice of earmarking specific amounts of money for individual pork projects in hard-to-stop conference reports has given rise to a new class of lobbyist that specializes in the no-fingerprints line items. John Boehner, the Ohioan who wants to be House majority leader, backs this change, but so far it faces long odds. Chance of passage...
PROMISE The fastidious Ohioan didn't drink or smoke. He wanted more time to train the Army, but Lincoln ordered him ahead, saying "They are green also...