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House Democrat announces switch to GOP, MSNBC
"Rep. Parker Griffith of Alabama, who hails from a heavily conservative congressional district, announced Tuesday that he will join the GOP."
Solid future seen at NASA, Huntsville Times
"The future of America's space program is solid and safe, even as the White House ponders missions and rocket programs that could be led by Marshall Space Flight Center, U.S. Rep. Parker Griffith, D-Huntsville, said here Friday."
Pelosi gets a Repug lump of coal for Christams...
NO! HO! HO!
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"Hope and Change" didn't seem to be working out for him.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Although the very powerful presence of Sen. Shelby still represents a very formidable defense, for the first time in the history of the MSFC there is no one in the majority party, or in the Administration, who has a political interest in protecting pipeline of Federal dollars into Northern Alabama.
Maybe it means nothing, but MSFC's grasp of the importance of politics has always been light years ahead of any other NASA Center.
The opportunities for mischief in 2010 just keep getting ever more interesting.
The first midterm elections are generally really bad news for the party in power, plus he gets to out flank his GOP opposition. Brilliant strategy. I just hope he held out for plum committee assignments before jumping.
To me it sounds principled but in the short term self-defeating. As taxpayerlargesse pointed out, Parker Griffith's maneuver not only weakens his position within the sitting Congress, it completes the self-imposed disenfranchisement of MSFC's US Congressional delegation. The only thing it strengthens is Griffith's own chance of surviving next year's election. He is guaranteed to be especially marginalized in the next Congress and beyond, until Republicans recapture the House some day in the future. Meanwhile, good luck finding any effective political support for MSFC.
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No real change as he's been voting the GOP line since he was elected.
Just another example of the Dem House and Senate committees wasting resources and pissing off the Dem base by insisting on recruiting and running closet Republicans.