Here’s Time magazine on doings in the House. The piece is very tough on Boehner. Here is a Shadegg bit:

As backers of the two [Blunt/Boehner] bickered, a variety of key Republicans began to fret that outraged voters would punish the party if it simply reshuffled a few chairs after being confronted by federal prosecutors with evidence of excess that is adding up to a historic scandal. “A bad political environment could turn into something tsunami size,” said a Republican official close to the White House. That worry inspired the entry late last week of a dark-horse candidate for DeLay’s job, John Shadegg of Arizona, who stuffed envelopes when his father managed Barry Goldwater’s 1952 Senate campaign. “We need a clean break from the scandals of the past,” Shadegg said in his announcement. Within hours, he was endorsed by such key conservative voices as the organization Club for Growth and the publications Human Events and National Review.

And there’s this on the candidates on earmarks:

All three candidates have suggested that they would support earmark limits, a favorite McCain cause. Only Boehner has been specific about what he would change, saying he would try to prevent federal dollars from going to private entities for exclusively private purposes. This still wouldn’t stop wasteful spending on unneeded bridges and other projects. But one plan would identify the sponsors of earmarks and force members to defend them, eliminating the many mysterious entries that now bristle in the budget. Blunt defends earmarks but has proposed tracking those who request them and how the money is spent. Boehner and Shadegg both say they have never had an earmark directed to their congressional district.