conservatives. but all is not lost for them. the real competition turned out to be in the open raice for the number three spot, making the republican leadership more conservative. louisiana s steve scalise was tapped as the new whip. and as political junkies know, that s the post in charge of wrangling the votes. scalise is a tea party favorite, the chairman of the republican house conservative study committee. he took a victory lap today. we have this strong team that is representative of our entire congress and i m proud to be chairman of the republican conservative committee, and i ve worked very hard over the year and a half that i ve been chairman to move conservative solutions forward in a way that unites our conference.
really don t want to be reconciled to, as they would see it, business as usual or as some others might see it, governing the country. and you already had some people complaining about scalise. again, a very conservative guy. as steve says, a representative of the culturally conservative south. nonetheless, you have had people complaining he took the republican study committee, this group of conservatives, and made it much more amenable to the leadership. so he s already played this bridging role in his position in the republican study committee. so it wouldn t surprise me if you have some you know, the far right, if you will, of the republican caucus complaining about him in about a month or two. yeah, and on that point, you mentioned earlier, eric erickson, a conservative blogger, he said look, steve scalise worked behind the scenes to marginalize conservatives.
he has turned the once much heralded republican study committee into a toady group for house leadership. let me put it like this. is there anything concrete and affirmative that this new leadership will actually try to get through the house before the midterms or is it all about holding the line and being anti-obama? look, right now, as we know from all the survey data that s been out over the last couple of days, the president is in a very precarious political situation. his numbers are very low. republicans stand to take control of the senate to expand the majority in the house. and so the house agenda is to do no political arm. you won t see anything getting done until after the midterm elections. the election season is fully under way, and that means the political agenda in terms of getting the nation s business done is completely stalled.
louisiana s steve scalise was tapped as the new whip. and as political junkies know, that s the post in charge of wrangling the votes. scalise is a tea party favorite, the chairman of the republican house conservative study committee. he took a victory lap today. we have this strong team that is representative of our entire congress and i m proud to be chairman of the republican conservative committee, and i ve worked very hard over the year and a half that i ve been chairman to move conservative solutions forward in a way that unites our conference. translation, he s talking about a right driven consensus, uniting the conference and delivering the votes that you need from the most conservative members of the house, aka the tea party.
again, a very conservative guy. as steve says, a representative of the culturally conservative south. nonetheless, you have had people complaining he took the republican study committee, this group of conservatives, and made it much more amenable to the leadership. so he s already played this bridging role in his position in the republican study committee. so it wouldn t surprise me if you have some you know, the far right, if you will, of the republican caucus complaining about him in about a month or two. yeah, and on that point, you mentioned earlier, eric erickson, a conservative blogger, he said look, steve scalise worked behind the scenes to marginalize conservatives. he has turned the once much heralded republican study committee into a toady group for house leadership.