Freshman Rep. Alan West (R-FL) stood in the Speaker’s Lobby after John Boehner took over this afternoon and reflected on an election season that saw the tea party — of which West is one of the most colorful elected members — ascend to the halls of power in Washington. It’s been a long road for conservatives like West, and he told me that to sit in the room and watch Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s reign come to an end was pretty darn great.
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