Veteran pols will head rookie class

The conservatives need to caucus with the Tea Party and the RINOs need to sit down and shut up. They are what helped ruin the republican party. We have too many libs in the dem party as it is.

Sooooo, Mr. "Conservative" You Are Saying That Republican President Eisenhower (Who Built The Interstate Highway System) Is "A RINO?"

The "Rookie Class" Is A Lot Smaller Than You Expected.... US Voters don't read much truth but we aren't that stupid =

5 Years Losing Jobs, 19 Months gaining = on the right track, just need to keep going, "Hands On The Plow"

+ Maybe we also need a "Rich Itch" as Leader Of Our House of Representatives who can say to "Usury $" - "You can't buy me!"

I hope the "seasoned snakes" are forgotten and left unhired.

It would be refreshing seeing 75 or so fresh crews working together to undo the entrenched mob running the place now.

Part of the glamour is dumping the system of tit for tat, I know this lobbyist and this is where you get the free candy.

AND, I hope the new comers sit in the stands and tell the losers how their constituencies want them to vote during November and December.

What will the Party of BIG LABOR Do?
What will the Party of BIG PHARMA Do?
What will the Party of BIG BANKING Do?
What will the Party of BIG AUTO Do?
What will the Party of BIG UNEMPLOYMENT Do?

Will they keep Pelosi in leadership?
Will they listen to Obama who led them to disaster?
Will they llsten to Obama's teleprompter?

Will they help repeal Obamacare?

Will they help cut wasteful spending?

Will they do what their constituency wants them to do?

I live in South Carolina and Tim Scott is my hero. Not because he's black, nor because he's a conservative, but because he is honest and a true man of the people. He hasn't the interest of race, party or self in the forefront of his platform - he is an American first, a South Carolinian second and if he were white, black or madras he'd be fine with me. That said, what is meant by the GOP being viewed as "too white and too Southern"? Wasn't James Earl Carter a white Southern democrat? What about William J. Clinton - white, Southern, democrat right? As far as I can gather, the only people that might think this way are blue state urbanites, far leftists and, as usual, dim witted students led around by their noses by untried, has-been profs of liberal arts or social "sciences". Thinking people still vote for a candidate based on his/her past record of political performance and probable future contributions to our country's health, wealth and wellbeing. Party sheep and dimwits will always vote where and for whom they are told, and if 'too white" and "too Southern" are part of their process - they are dim wits indeed.

Hopefully the majority of the new people in Washington will be the leaders we elect to deal with our national and states problems. Hopefully they will have the courage and responsibility to do the job they are being elected to do!
The GOP has held elected Republican Representatives on a tight and threatening rope disallowing any efforts to work with the Democrats in trying to resolve and fix our nations problems. The GOPs number one mission in the past 20 months has been to destroy any credibility and efforts of the Democratic administration. Rather than working with the democrats they have taken every opportunity to sell the American voters on the idea that the Democrats are incapable of doing anything. It has worked, as much due to their efforts as to the lack of the Democrats marketing their accomplishments.
Will the new people be lead by the same GOP mindset that has created havoc in the past 20 months or will the new personalities lead rather than follow. Will they allow Boehner and the GOP to make their decisions for them or will they remember they were sent to Washington to represent the constituents of their states? Will they remember their first responsibility is to America, then to their states and then to their party? Or, will they allow the party to lead them around while the GOP leadership continues their fight for dominance in the next elections?

The Perfect Storm hits DC

The newcomers, who I expect to do well as a group, must balance the need to turn the "ship of state" sharply to starboard to get back in the right direction and avoid hitting the rocks and wrecking with the need to get all the help and advice they can from the older hands and, as noted here, use their business and politically honed abilities to get up to speed on the wonky technical issues that don't always make for good sound bites for the uninitiated.

Personally, I hope they get practical, listen to the ordinary people who provide the votes, are not afraid to talk to and work with their counterparts in The Other Party on many issues of common interest that really are not so much "liberal" or "conservative" as shared interests across the socio-economic, ethnic, and politifcal spectrums.

None of my Members of Congress are either new or Democrats. I can remember well when none were Republicans. After 50 years of politics I'm not sure George Washington wasn't right in warning us against permanent parties, but we're stuck with them. Both are coalitions of groups that don't socialize or get along with each other much less the opposition. I'd think of a bigger tent myself as I have never found a party, organization, or leader with whom I could agree 100% and sometimes my religious, economic, and legal education and professional and life experience have convinced me that some leading liberal Democrats were right and too many Republicans wrong on particular issues or bills.

Hopefully the newcomers will listen to their constituents and other knowledgeable people.