A long shot, to be sure:
California Rep. Dan Lungren will challenge Minority Leader John A. Boehner next week in a bid to dethrone the top Republican in the House, according to a letter distributed by Lungren’s office on Friday.
Lungren, who opens the note complimenting the Republican leader as “a good man” “of honor and intergrity,” casts his long-shot campaign against Boehner as a move to shake up the GOP “because I think our party is in trouble.
“If we don’t admit our difficulties and address them aggressively, we not only run the risk of becoming a permanent congressional minority but we will do a disservice to our nation,” Lungren says in the letter. “If we choose by inaction to ignore the real challenges we face, then paraphrazing President Reagan, we deserve to be relegated to the trash heap of history.”
Lungren parrots the complaints of the party’s activist base in the aftermath of last week’s election, asking, “‘Do the Republicans in Congress really understand the magnitude of what has happened?'”
I do wonder if the Congressional GOP really understands what happened – I worry they are thinking they can coast to victory in 2010 on an anti-Obama wave. While that might happen, we should work with the assumption that Obama will be a huge success and thus we’ll have to beat the Democrats with ideas and candidates. Only if the Congressional GOP maps out its program based upon the need for ideas and solutions with a mind towards re-convincing the American people we are worthy of their trust will we have a chance of winning. And I mean really winning – not just falling into power like the Democrats did on an anti-GOP wave.
Top to bottom, we need to reform the way we do business to get our party to be the party of responsibility, moral standards, solutions and core American ideals.
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