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Powerful Arguments

In the new House, Republicans sound like Democrats—and vice versa.

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Correction, Jan. 5, 2010: Due to an editing error, the original photo caption in the piece referred to Pelosi and Boehner as, respectively, the outgoing and incoming majority leaders.

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John Dickerson is Slate's chief political correspondent and author of On Her Trail. He can be reached at slatepolitics@gmail.com. Read his series on the presidency and his series on risk. Follow him on Twitter.

Photograph of John Boehner by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Photograph of Nancy Pelosi by Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images.