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There are a few telling details about yesterday’s rally against the House’s health care reform bill that got lost in the coverage. The rally was not planned by the GOP leadership, which was focusing on a 12-hour online health care “town hall.” Rather, the rally was initiated by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), the loose-tongued rising [...]

Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who’s mounting a somewhat under-covered Senate campaign in 2010, got the crowd on his side at the Value Voter Summit by mocking former President Jimmy Carter’s comments that some of the opposition to President Obama was motivated by race.
“It seems to me that President Carter got a lot of criticism when [...]

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele + conservative radio show = hilarious gaffes. The liberal blog Fired Up! has the audio of Steele rolling along with Springfield, Mo., radio host Vincent David Jericho, who was ranting about the party’s all-but-certain U.S. Senate nominee in 2010, Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.).

Mike Stark does another round of ambush interviews with Republican Congressmen, a tactic I’m not really comfortable with, but one that’s shaking out some truly strange opinions about Barack Obama’s citizenship. An exchange with Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who is running for Senate in Missouri:

BLUNT: What I don’t know is why the President can’t produce [...]

The office of Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) sends over the news that he’ll be the ranking member on the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee. The subtext is that the party is taking the health care fight more seriously; the previous point man on the issue was Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who doesn’t regularly [...]

It may not feel that way, but yes, there are other things happening today outside of the realm of Supreme Court nominations.
For instance, a coalition including veterans advocates, labor unions and an environmental group has begun running television ads blasting several House lawmakers for voting last week against controversial climate change legislation. That bill, sponsored [...]

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) survived a challenge to his leadership position Wednesday morning, “handily” beating California GOP Rep. Dan Lungren, in the words of The Hill’s Jackie Kucinich. From The Hill:

In the wake of the GOP’s dismal showing in Tuesday’s elections, Rep. Roy Blunt (Mo.), the House Republican whip, is stepping down from his leadership perch, according to a statement issued by the congressman Thursday.