DeLay vs. Rove?

[housewolf]

From DailyKos,

DeLay vs. Rove?
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for the most part, Rove and DeLay have gotten along just fine. But now Tom is starting to become more trouble than he's worth from the White House's perspective.

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Anybody in GOP Leadership right now is there because DeLay allowed them in. In addition to whatever loyalty this might inspire, there is a distinct chance that if DeLay goes down in flames he will take them all with him. All it would take is another small cadre of power-hungry Republicans advocating a cleansing of the party by throwing them all out with the bathwater.

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If Rove wants to complete his transformation of America into a privatized, "on your own" society, he cannot afford to just sit on his hands for the next two years while everybody waits for the public to forget about DeLay's trouble. And worse yet would be the possibility of waiting it out only for DeLay to get indicted, with Bush's last two effective years wasted and potentially having to deal with a Democratic majority in one chamber or the other for his last two years. So if I were Rove, I would want DeLay out, and I'd want him out now. The hope that he will survive the scandals already afoot and the scandals to come is outweighed by the risk of squandering the entire second Bush term.

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Fineman: "A new drama of survival has begun here - political, not physical; legal, not spiritual. The central character isn't a woman in a hospital bed but a controversial Republican leader in the House of Representatives. Rep. Tom DeLay may not want to admit it to himself, but he's fighting for his political life. I wouldn't have said so two weeks ago. But I've seen enough of these dramas unfold to know when I'm watching a new one, and now I am. "

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/3/30/174259/055

[coloradodem2005]

1. Do they really think that Bush will have to deal with a Dem...

...majority in at least one chamber in 2007 and 2008?

[alittlelark]

2. DeLays' brain is so fried by the toxins he used as an exterminator

that he has finally been deemed as a liability!!!! Damn, that took long enough. The fact that he is being dissed by other 'brain dead' or 'dead soul' individuals is telling indeed.

[DesEtoiles]

3. So who is gunning to be the next Tom DeLay?

[yurbud]

5. they wil have to go with a Porkchop Hastert type

a bland figurehead while the real leader is someone technically further down the food chain, so now both the Speaker and GOP majority leader will be figureheads.

Come to think of it, this is what's going on in the White House isn't it? They have the petulant Texas Tard to stumble through press conferences while Uncle Dick is quietly inside, busy stealing everything that isn't nailed down and most of what is.

[primavera]

9. No doubt they'll bring in a moderate...

... like David Duke.

[bridgit]

4. for rove & the bush family?

delay has always been seen on roller skates & easily replaceable. its just a matter of making it look like its was delay's idea all along. but then he'll be gone too imo. all things must pass. and that's just a matter of time.

[GoBlue]

6. Could be interesting...

watching two experienced con men try to out con each other.

[agincourt]

7. Both are the lowest rot,

and need to go soon for the good of the USA.

[winston61]

8. Rove will drop him like a bad habit

Another willing puppet will be easy to find.