November 04, 2010 10:05 PM UTC

Frank McNulty's House of Pain

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• by: Colorado Pols

The AP reports, bring the noise:

The Republican caucus elected Rep. Frank McNulty of Highlands Ranch to lead the House, where the GOP appears poised to win a razor-thin, 33-32 majority.

House Democrats said some votes still haven’t been counted, but acknowledged they would probably lose the majority.

State Bill Colorado adds:

Amy Stephens, R-Monument, as expected, was voted as the Republicans’ House majority leader.

In another important vote, Sen. Kent Lambert was voted by his caucus to the Joint Budget Committee. Al White, who previously served, wasn’t renominated.

Replacing the eminently reasonable Sen. Al White on the Joint Budget Committee with firebrand conservative Kent Lambert…isn’t going to make their work any easier, folks. We’ll soon learn just what an understatement that probably is. It looks like White has joined Don Marostica on the “RINO” bench, which is objectively bad for everybody who prefers grownup solutions.

In the meantime, check out the big title on McNulty! From what we know of some of the friends he brought with him to the new House majority, people will be reminding McNulty of his new title a lot.