{"id":7377,"date":"2011-01-08T12:51:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T19:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=7377"},"modified":"2011-01-08T12:51:15","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T19:51:15","slug":"the-first-news-of-speaker-john-boehners-reign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/01\/08\/the-first-news-of-speaker-john-boehners-reign\/","title":{"rendered":"The first news of Speaker John Boehner’s reign"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is symbolic significance to this ceremonial choice<\/a>.
\nI certainly wasn’t the the only one to notice how big John Boehner’s gavel was. Even Nancy Pelosi, who became minority leader, made a quip when she handed the gavel to the newly minted speaker of the house.<\/em><\/p>\n

She said: “I now pass this gavel \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which is larger than most gavels here, but the gavel of choice of Mr… speaker Boehner. I now pass this gavel and the sacred trust that goes with it to the new speaker.”<\/em><\/p>\n

It is the gavel that John Beohner insisted on.\u00c2\u00a0 The obvious significance is to suggest a lot of power, and as this npr article goes on to note Pelosi used a big prop gavel with respect to Health Care Reform.\u00c2\u00a0 Significant here, possibly, is that the first item on the new House Republican Majority agenda was a Health Care Reform Repeal Act — the prop nature of which is told in the name given to it — the Republicans look to insert the phrase “job killing” wherever they can, and thus this measure was the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act”.<\/p>\n

The need for the gavel is shown, perhaps, in this conversation with Brian Williams:<\/p>\n

BRIAN WILLIAMS: When you go home next, is there a sidewalk, a place, a person that’s kind of a talisman to grab onto? Again, talkin’ about strength and the new job?
\nJOHN BOEHNER: Well, I get strength every day just uh, going to my Facebook site.<\/em><\/p>\n

Facebook, really?\u00c2\u00a0 Is it just for building strength and getting that well of emotional support?\u00c2\u00a0 Did he neglect to use it to alert\u00c2\u00a0Representative Sessions to the Swearing in Ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is symbolic significance to this ceremonial choice. I certainly wasn’t the the only one to notice how big John Boehner’s gavel was. Even Nancy Pelosi, who became minority leader, made a quip when she handed the gavel to the newly minted speaker of the house. She said: “I now pass this gavel \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7378,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7377\/revisions\/7378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}