On Congressional Leadership

Quite a bit of “attention” has been paid to the race between Democratic Congressmen Jack Murtha and Steny Hoyer for the post of House Majority Leader in the upcoming 110th Congress.  Specifically, some around these parts of the blogosphere have questioned which Minnesota Democrats supported Murtha or Hoyer, ostensibly in a long-term attempt to divide Democrats from one another on personality issues.

Here’s what I’m curious about – what about Norm Coleman?  Who did the occupant of Wellstone’s Senate seat support in the race for Senate Minority Whip?

more insideTrent Lott, eventual victor, who said of Dixiecrat/Segregationist Strom Thurmond’s 1948 Presidential campaign:

“I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years, either.”

Or Lamar Alexander, who, while serving as Education Secretary, went over the heads of his advisory panel to recognize the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (TRACS) so it could accredit schools?

…TRACS gave accreditation to Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University and “created a category for schools which it called associate schools.” While this category “was not considered an official accreditation,” according to Levicoff, TRACS lent its name to a number of “blatantly fraudulent institutions.”

If our Democratic Congresspeople’s votes are important, then it stands to reason that Coleman’s vote is newsworthy as well.