McConnell Next? I doubt It [CBD]

GOP Representative: Mitch McConnell 'Next Guy in the Crosshairs'

It's a nice thought, but I don't see it happening, other than quiet rumblings in back rooms. And please, please, please....make me eat my words!

"People are frustrated with out[sic] Republican leadership, with Boehner and McConnell, and it's not usually the third or fourth question that comes up -- it's the first question that comes up," Representative Marlin Stutzman (R., Ind.), who voted against Boehner in January, told National Review last week. "It's happening at tea-party events, but it's [also] happened at Republican breakfasts, it's happening at donor meetings -- there's a deep frustration."

Representative Trent Franks holds the same view, but believes that it can be relieved by the elimination of the filibuster rather than a change in leadership. "Unfortunately, the Republican base and even many esoteric Republican observers are not truly cognizant of how the Democrats' insidious use of the filibuster is beginning to tear the House conference apart," Franks said.

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