AZ-03: For adjournment, before being against it

Ahh, the wingnutosphere's favorite wingnut, John Shadegg, is wasting campaign time by playing make-believe Congress in Washington D.C.

The Republican takeover of the out-of-session U.S. House will continue into the foreseeable future, said U.S. Rep. John Shadegg (R-Phoenix) Wednesday.

"We're going to keep it going as long as we can," Shadegg told PolitickerAZ.com. Shadegg, the most senior Republican in Arizona's House delegation and a close ally of the GOP leadership, said the minority Republicans plan to continue to take to the floor of the House throughout the summer recess in protest of inaction on the expansion of domestic oil production, even though the House remains officially out of session and is not scheduled to resume legislative business until Sept. 5 [...]

Shadegg was one of several Republicans who stayed behind Friday after the House floor's lights were turned off and the public address system shut down to continue to press for attention on the domestic production front. He was the one who managed to turn the PA system back on by successfully guessing the code required to access its control.

So these Republicans are looking for any excuse to stay in D.C. with their oil industry lobbyist pals rather than go home and face their constituents. Yet they were singing a different tune not too long ago.

Shadegg, in fact, joined many of his Republican colleagues to try and adjourn the House on June 24.

Twice.

In total, 12 of the 25 Republicans at their lobbyist-fueled DC party were hypocritical enough to have supported that early adjournment, while now crying about the House's regularly scheduled adjournment.

Shadegg fancies himself a future leader of his caucus. He's certainly the conservative blogosphere's top choice for the job, as they supported his unsuccessful bid against current minority leader John Boehner. He retired because of boredom, but was talked back into the race, likely with promises of future leadership roles (Boehner won't be safe in his perch if Democrats hand Republicans another expected ass whooping this December).

Hence, while Boehner plays golf back home in Ohio during this Republican "revolt", Shadegg is practicing his "leadership" chops.

The plan is for Democratic challenger and O2B candidate Bob Lord to short-circuit Shadegg's and his supporters' dreams, and so far on that front, so good.

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