{"id":1442,"date":"2004-11-03T18:34:14","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T01:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/a-mandate-for-conservative-leadership\/"},"modified":"2004-11-03T18:34:14","modified_gmt":"2004-11-04T01:34:14","slug":"a-mandate-for-conservative-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/a-mandate-for-conservative-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A Mandate for Conservative Leadership&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"House GOP says the way is paved for Bush agenda=The Hill.com=\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehill.com\/news\/110404\/agenda.aspx\">House GOP says the way is paved for Bush agenda=The Hill.com=<\/a><br \/>\nPence: &#8216;Dems lost their leader. That speaks spades.&#8217;<br \/>\nBy Jonathan E. Kaplan<\/p>\n<p>House Republican lawmakers, flush with victory, said President Bush&#8217;s reelection, combined with their slightly improved margin in the House and a four-seat gain in the Senate, demonstrates public approval of how they have governed the country the past four years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;It&#8217;s an affirmation of the direction we&#8217;ve been going,&#8221; said Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis (Va.)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), new chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, said: \u201cThere\u2019s a <b>mandate<\/b> for conservative leadership in the outcome of this election. The American people have spoken in <b>deafening<\/b> terms that they want<br \/>\nRepublican leadership in the White House and Capitol Hill.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time for the <b>majority<\/b> to be heard.\u201d He said he hopes Republicans will focus on changing the budget process, reforming Medicare and Social Security, defining marriage as between a man and woman and banning RU-486, a pharmaceutical used to induce an abortion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I liked someone&#8217;s observation that more people voted <b><i>against<\/i> Bush<\/b> than against any candidate before. That won&#8217;t even slow down the raging Right. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House GOP says the way is paved for Bush agenda=The Hill.com= Pence: &#8216;Dems lost their leader. That speaks spades.&#8217; By Jonathan E. Kaplan House Republican lawmakers, flush with victory, said President Bush&#8217;s reelection, combined with their slightly improved margin in the House and a four-seat gain in the Senate, demonstrates public approval of how they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/a-mandate-for-conservative-leadership\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;A Mandate for Conservative Leadership&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}