Reminds me a tiny bit of the run-up to the 2012 primaries, when we heard lots of rhetoric from people like Mitch Daniels and Chris Christie about how important the election was to the country’s future, just … not so important that they’d upset their own lives by running in it.

Jeb Hensarling, the great conservative hope for majority leader and maybe eventually Speaker, is reportedly out:

Rep. Jeb Hensarling will not run for House majority leader in next week’s special election, according to a source familiar with his decision.

Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, who already has begun whipping votes to succeed outgoing Majority Leader Eric Cantor, now has a wide-open path to the No. 2 spot in House Republican leadership.

Hensarling’s decision is a blow to House conservatives, as he was the last of their preferred candidates to be seriously considering a run against McCarthy.

For the sizable bloc of tea party-allied lawmakers who have been fixated on injecting fresh blood into the upper-most echelons of GOP leadership, there are only a few who they view as legitimate, acceptable candidates besides Hensarling: Paul Ryan, Jim Jordan, and Tom Price.

Hensarling was coy yesterday but rumblings in the halls of the Capitol made it seem like he was ready to challenge McCarthy, Cantor’s handpicked successor. What happened overnight? Sounds like McCarthy and his team moved quickly to lock up votes, which may have convinced Hensarling that any challenge was futile.

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Read more:http://hotair.com/archives/2014/06/12/re...locks-up-votes/

McCarthy is a dumber version of Cantor. This is just another reason to tell the House GOP to go to hell if they are going to install this Boner ass kisser to this position.

Quote: algernonpj wrote in post #3

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plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

There are replacements for the statist globalist toadies lined up in the wings. Cantor's defeat was a nice illusion while it lasted. Motto of the -R and -D elitists: Power to the PTB !

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