After the Republicans' 1994 landslide victory in the House, they rewarded chief GOP "cheerleader" Rush Limbaugh with "the unique title of honorary member of Congress," says Karl Frisch at The Moderate Voice. For the party's most recent electoral victory, Glenn Beck should get the same honor. Like Limbaugh in '94, nobody has done more than Beck this year to lead the GOP out of the political wilderness. Here's an excerpt:
When the Republican Party was in shambles after losing control of both the House and Senate in 2006 followed by the White House in 2008, it was Beck who went about building and promoting the Tea Party movement and his own 9/12 faction....
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