Shadegg: The Dream Is Over
The race to replace Tom Delay as House Majority Leader has been one that has excited many (though it was a bit too inside baseball to get my juices going). Most of the excitement was from the entry into the race of John Shadegg, who had cast himself as the reform candidate.
We don’t yet know who the Majority Leader will be after round number one of the voting – but we do know it won’t be Shadegg. Details here…
UPDATE 1:39 p.m.: It’s Boehner…kind of a slap in the face to Blunt, no?…
UPDATE 2 2:47 p.m.: Mary Katherine Ham posts some excerpts from an interview between Hugh Hewitt and Boehner…
I prefer to look at the glass as half full. Boehner isn’t Shadegg, but he’s not Blunt either. Blunt was part of the party leadership that simply couldn’t find any pork to cut in the budget. Now he’s been passed up for promotion, and agitation by bloggers, among others, in favor of Shadegg, was a big part of this upset.
ps: What will the MSM’s reaction to this news be? It could easily have been spun as a defeat for reform, had they been on top of this campaign from the beginning. But they haven’t been, and I can only assume it was because they thought Blunt was an inevitability.