Golly, gee. Republican members of the US Senate have chosen Roy Blunt, a House veteran from Missouri who's a freshman Senator but knows his way around the Capitol, for a leadership post, rejecting the bid by Wisconsn's Ron Johnson.
Johnson, who hasn't even served a year, was the Tea Party candidate who said he'd offer a different perspective.
But his colleagues decided that they didn't really need a doofus perspective. They already have Jim DeMint, who endorsed RoJo. So did a lor of other far out right wingers, including home state Rep. Paul Ryan. Turns out Senators don't much give a rip what House members think.
The spot is the #5 position in the GOP Senate leadership, worth about a thimbleful of warm spit.