About five seconds after Cathy McMorris Rodgers was picked over Tom Price to chair the House Republican Conference in the next session, she was instantly deployed to all chat shows that would have her as the anti-McCain. She was no grumpy old man still bitter about getting his butt kicked by "that one." She was, literally, the new face of a party that thinks all it needs is re-branding.
But now she's stepped up to the plate to comment on the avalanche of calls for finally having "The Talk" about guns -- specifically, what kind of common-sense laws we should have put through long before 26 people (20 of them children) died in Newtown, CT. More below the Socialist tangerine beignet.