The Republican Party seems to have high hopes for Cathy McMorris Rodgers. When John Boehner makes statements to the press, she is typically standing behind him, and the woman is quickly advancing into Republican leadership in the U.S. House. She has also been building her own political machine and installing her staff into their own positions of power.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers placing a priority on electing her buddies
Cathy McMorris Rodgers started by helping to elect her former aid Jaime Herrera to the 3rd Congressional District in Washington State. Now Cathy McMorris Rodgers's machine is behind the election campaign of David Condon for the Mayor of Spokane Washington.
Condon is a right-wing, partisan political hack who served as McMorris's District Director from 2005 to 2008 and then as her Deputy Chief of Staff until he took a leave of absence to run for the Mayor of Spokane. You can find out more about Condon at www.CondonThePartisan.com. He has helped McMorris advance an extreme right-wing agenda during the worst of the Bush years.
(Update 1: The Rich Cowan campaign in 2012 produced and aired a TV ad against McMorris that accurately describes her priorities. Re-electing more of her buddies to Washington D.C.)
(Update 2: McMorris Rodgers and Jaime Herrera Watch were advocates for the sequester and it contained budget cuts to healthcare and other important government services. The sequester reduced "family planning and reproductive health care for poor women” by millions of dollars. These cuts are likely to result in thousands of unwanted pregnancies are some of the most unwise budget cuts ever. It does not matter to them that birth control is safe, effective at preventing unwanted pregnancies, and has relatively few side effects.)