“I’m staying,” Boehner told ABC host George Stephanopoulos. “My job is to help bring our members together.”
Boehner said he talked late last week with Cole (R-Okla.), whose job security as chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee is now in question after losing a third straight special election.
“Tom and I had a very good meeting on Friday – frank and constructive and positive,” Boehner said. “He’s staying.”
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Boehner is doing a really bang up job here. First, he admits what his job is. That opens the doors to criticism that, rightly so, he just is not getting the job done. He has made public statements saying what Republicans need to do; brand themselves as change, donate to the NRCC, etc. and nothing seems to change.
Second, he took the time to chainlink himself to Tom Cole, like he needed help putting his leadership position into question.
This is too precious. It is like Republicans have turned into a bunch of chickens running around with their heads cut off. That is only after 33 seats have gone down the tube over the past year and a half. Just wait till we build on that after 2008. Too precious.