POLITICO: …“Some of the groups that would have agreed with us on a lot of issues, they don’t even look at us. We scare them,” said former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.)…
[Retiring Rep. Steve] LaTourette said House Republicans took a baby step this week by installing Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers as conference chairwoman, the fourth-ranking position in the House. Moves like that help dispel the GOP identity as a “group of 50-something white guys from below the Mason-Dixon line,” noted the Ohioan, who has said he’s leaving Congress because he’s tired of the partisan warfare…
“If there’s really a deal that’s a deal, and not just some talking point from the White House, John Boehner will make the deal,” said LaTourette. “But it may not be the majority of the Republican conference. My vision of how this deal is done is 120 Republicans and 120 Democrats. That’s the way all the tough stuff has ever been accomplished… (more)
