First off, you have to have a good relationship with your party leadership and then you need to have good relationships with your colleagues in the House on both sides of the aisle. I plan on doing both of those things.

The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

We do not plan on being a party to any plan that would degrade the quality of the (Geneva Lake).

They said how important it is for our party, how important it is for the leadership.

Party label and leadership image become more important...and thus who leads the party and what the party stands for, which can be communicated to a large number of people only by media, especially TV, becomes a more important factor.

At the very least the leadership of the Democratic Party would ask this guy to step down from his legislative leadership post, and frankly if he wants to spend all of his time doing dirty tricks and character assassination instead of the work of a legislator, he should step down.