NYT: Bush (and Rove) Seen as Unlikely to Seek DeLay's Ouster

[DeepModem Mom]

Bush Is Seen as Unlikely to Seek DeLay's Ouster
By ELISABETH BUMILLER

Published: April 15, 2005


WASHINGTON, April 14 - President Bush and Representative Tom DeLay, the much-investigated but still powerful House majority leader, have never been pals. They made that clear in the fall of 1999, when Mr. Bush, the Republican front-runner for president, accused Mr. DeLay of balancing the federal budget on the backs of the poor and Mr. DeLay shot back that Mr. Bush "does not know how Congress works."

In an interview that fall, Mr. DeLay also recalled that, when he first met Mr. Bush, the future president was "oil-field trash - that's an endearing term, by the way." In private conversations afterward, Mr. Bush was heard to express contempt for Mr. DeLay.

But Republicans say that, for now, Mr. Bush's political need for his fellow Texas Republican transcends his personal distaste and the growing questions about Mr. DeLay's ethical conduct. For that reason, they say that Mr. Bush and Karl Rove, the president's chief political strategist, are unlikely to try to jettison Mr. DeLay in the same way that they deposed Trent Lott as Senate Republican leader for racially charged comments Mr. Lott made in 2002.

"They need DeLay, and they particularly need him on Social Security," said a Republican strategist close to the White House who asked not to be named because the situation was so "toxic." The White House was counting on the aggressive Mr. DeLay, the strategist said, to push the president's sputtering Social Security plan through Congress because "the rest of the leadership is not as experienced, they're not as capable and they don't know what DeLay knows about individual members and what makes them tick."

Mr. Bush 's relationship with Mr. DeLay, Republicans say, falls into the familiar Washington pattern of professional respect and mutual self-interest; as Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary, said on Wednesday, "there are different levels of friendship." But it is also a relationship that has tangled roots back in Texas, where Mr. Bush, the Ivy League patrician, and Mr. DeLay, the former termite exterminator, rose through different paths, and where the president's wariness began with Mr. DeLay's political attacks on Mr. Bush's father....


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/15/politics/15texans.html

[truthisfreedom]

1. they're falling all over themselves embracing delay from the greatest

possible distance.

[Robbien]

2. The lady who gushes over Bush's IPod and Ice Cream wants us

to believe people are going to tell her what Bush plans to do in matters of state.

Bumiller writes better columns when she's slobbering over Bush's manicures.

[CoffeeCat]

3. What is with this reporter....ELISABETH BUMILLER?

Is this woman Karl Rove's personal public-relations robot?

Every time Karl wants a certain soundbyte or message injected into American skulls, does he just call up ELISABETH BUMILLER and order the article?

Excuse me, but Rove/Bush/the White House DO appear to want DeLay out.

Immediately after Schiavo--Cheney, Bush--and now Gingrich--were calling Rove out. Apparently, their little game was too transparent. People were catching on. So now, ELISABETH BUMILLER gladly meets Roves wishes for an article that says, "Ohhhhh nooooo...despite their differences, we LOVE Tom DeLay and really need him."

They're distancing themselves from DeLay's demise--even though they're at the epicenter--because the American public can see through their manipulative hatchet jobs.

This reporter really needs to be called on the carpet. She will write anything they want! She's the reporter who wrote the "What's on Georgie's iPod" article and also the article on Junior being more "frisky" and fun loving.

What is with HER?????

[jaysunb]

4. J. Edgar Hoover lives....

The White House was counting on the aggressive Mr. DeLay, the strategist said, to push the president's sputtering Social Security plan through Congress because "the rest of the leadership is not as experienced, they're not as capable and they don't know what DeLay knows about individual members and what makes them tick."


The Corleones had this "down pat" too. :evilgrin:

[Teaser]

5. Excellent....

Our fiendish plan is working!!!

[rocktivity]

6. Well, if Lisa Bulmiller says that the Bush Oval office needs RoachBoy

then RoachBoy is DOOMED!

:headbang:
rocknation