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House Republicans cope with another loss

By Jason Embry | Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 11:47 AM

Last night’s Democratic win in a Mississippi House district that, on paper, was supposed to be an easy with for Republicans led to a very brief media briefing this morning by the Republican leaders of the House.

I don’t regularly attend their Wednesday morning briefings, but others who do say this one was particularly short. Nine minutes. Four questions allowed, although there were clearly more that reporters wanted to ask. Minority Leader John Boehner didn’t even take time to make fun of a Congress Daily reporter’s haircut (which, from what I’ve seen, he always does).

For weeks they’ve blamed Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for high gas prices and groused about Democratic inaction on other issues. Either the message isn’t getting through or voters simply aren’t buying it.

The Republican leaders pointed out that the Democratic winner of the seat in Mississippi, Travis Childers, distanced himself from Pelosi and ran on conservative positions.

“Both sides are running on our message,” said Minority Whip Roy Blunt.

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