John Boehner is the right man for the job

Friday, December 08, 2006
Boehner offers parting wisdom to GOP colleagues

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Majority Leader John Boehner told his GOP
colleagues Friday that for Republicans to reclaim the majority in 2008, they
must offer a slate of ideas in the new Congress and return to the party's core
principles including a limited government.The Ohio Republican offered this
advice in a five page memo sent to individual lawmakers as the House was
preparing to wrap up its business for the year."If we want to reclaim our
majority, we first have to reclaim our mantle as the party of hope, freedom and
reform ... the party of Reagan and Lincoln," Boehner writes in the memo. "As our
Democratic counterparts may discover the hard way, having a majority is of
limited value if you don't have a vision and a plan for using it."View the memo
-- CNN Political Editor Mark Preston