{"id":31534,"date":"2012-11-28T15:12:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T22:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/the-curious-strength-of-the-house-gop-white-caucus.html"},"modified":"2012-11-28T15:12:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T22:12:34","slug":"the-curious-strength-of-the-house-gop-white-caucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/the-curious-strength-of-the-house-gop-white-caucus.html","title":{"rendered":"The Curious Strength of the House GOP White Caucus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, to be completely fair, a lot of factors go into committee chairmanship (seniority being a big one). \u00a0So I seriously doubt that the House GOP leadership intentionally<\/i> picked an all-white, all-male set of committee chairs (esp. since that describes 90% of their number). Nor would I necessarily want to see some "token" effort to throw a woman or minority just for the sake of doing so.<\/p>\n

That said, it's still pretty amusing. Or irritating. Or telling. Or all three.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Zachary Cook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A pretty lucid\/logical reaction to getting curb stomped by the most diverse coalition of voters this country has ever seen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHouse Republicans choose all-white, all-male committee chairs \u2014 MSNBC<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHouse Republicans pick their committee chairs. What’s missing? Diversity.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Google+:<\/strong> View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now, to be completely fair, a lot of factors go into committee chairmanship (seniority being a big one). \u00a0So I seriously doubt that the House GOP leadership intentionally picked an all-white, all-male set of committee chairs (esp. since that describes 90% of their number). Nor would I necessarily want to see some "token" effort to … Continue reading “The Curious Strength of the House GOP White Caucus”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136477,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/17\/gop-congressman-has-figured-out-why-ocean-level-are-rising.html","url_meta":{"origin":31534,"position":0},"title":"GOP Congressman Has Figured Out Why Ocean Level Are Rising!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 17-May-18 5:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Nothing to do with silliness like climate change, of course. 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