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BREAKING: Boehner Re-Elected House Speaker

Marine's Dad Wrote: Jan 03, 2013 3:22 PM
"Mittens" wasn't my choice to begin with, but HE WAS our candidate so a vote for anyone else was a default vote for Obama. There is NO justifiable excuse for not voting at all or casting any vote that you knew would help Obama get re-elected knowing that he is out to destroy this country.

Remember all of this?  Just a bump in the road, it seems.  With relatively little drama, Ohio Republican John A. Boehner has been re-elected as Speaker of the US House of Representatives:
 

The 113th Congress is now in session. The gavels have been dropped in both the House and Senate. So, work on the People's Business has begun. The first bit of news was election of the speaker in the House., and at 1:20 p.m. ET the incumbent — Rep. John Boehner of Ohio — had enough votes to keep that post. Democrats, with...

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