Dayhoff Westminster Soundtrack: Washington Examiner: K-Street readies for Tea Party candidates, House GOP claims mandate

Thursday, November 04, 2010

Washington Examiner: K-Street readies for Tea Party candidates, House GOP claims mandate

Timothy P. Carney - GOP's K Street wing ready for insurgent challenge

The insurgent conservative Republicans and Tea Party candidates elected Tuesday are obviously a pugnacious and determined bunch, but they're not the only ones fixing for a battle over the direction of the party. The Republican Beltway establishment and the K Street wing of the GOP are ready to fight any effort to end pork-barrel spending and kill corporate welfare.The first fight will come mid-November, when the newly elected senators join returning senators to set party rules for the next two years.

Susan Ferrechio - House GOP claims voter mandate to limit government, taxes

Topping Republicans' to-do list is the repeal of President Obama's landmark health care reforms, which proved unpopular with the public and which Republicans portrayed as an unwarranted and expensive expansion of government.
Appearing at a Capitol news conference still flush from his party's historic election gains, House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, now the House speaker designate, told reporters the GOP would begin to lay the groundwork "to repeal this monstrosity and replace it with common sense reforms that will bring down the cost of health insurance in America."

Hayley Peterson - Obama says 'shellacking' in election not a rejection of his agenda

The president accepted some of the blame for Democrats' historic losses at the polls, when Republicans took control of the House and increased the size of their Senate minority. He said he is "doing a whole lot of reflecting" on what the election meant for him, Democrats and their shared agenda.But Obama rejected Republican claims that the election proved the public opposes the president's initiatives, including health care reform.

Mark Hemingway - You know who was a big loser in this election? George Soros

While Democrats went out of their way to portray the Koch brothers as evil billionaires puppeteering this election, I’d venture they feel pretty good about the outcome. However, after last night I’d venture that that George Soros is one unhappy Hungarian.

Timothy P. Carney - Republicans made almost no incursions into Democratic turf

The pickups made by Republicans were mostly “snap-backs” (winning back seats the GOP had lost in 2006 or 2008), or continuations of the ongoing realignment in the countryside and the South (winning seats that McCain and Bush both won). A full list of the turnover seats follows.