Union Leader - Robert D. Novak: Delaying DeLay’s successor - Saturday, Jan. 14, 2006
Union Leader - Robert D. Novak: Delaying DeLay’s successor - Saturday, Jan. 14, 2006: "HOUSE SPEAKER Dennis Hastert turned down a White House request to elect a permanent successor to Tom DeLay as majority leader in advance of President Bush’s State of the Union address on Jan. 31. Republican House members simply did not want to return early to Washington after their winter vacation.
Bush’s aides wanted an early vote, perhaps on Monday Jan. 30, so that speculation over DeLay’s successor and a possibly bitter internal campaign would not distract from the President’s speech. But Hastert set the voting for Feb. 2 after GOP members objected to changing plans for getting back to work.
A footnote: Both of the principal contenders to succeed DeLay, Acting Majority Leader Roy Blunt and Rep. John Boehner, appeared to have peaked short of a majority last week. Each side started to leak negative opposition research."
The poor GOP just can't play well with others.
Bush’s aides wanted an early vote, perhaps on Monday Jan. 30, so that speculation over DeLay’s successor and a possibly bitter internal campaign would not distract from the President’s speech. But Hastert set the voting for Feb. 2 after GOP members objected to changing plans for getting back to work.
A footnote: Both of the principal contenders to succeed DeLay, Acting Majority Leader Roy Blunt and Rep. John Boehner, appeared to have peaked short of a majority last week. Each side started to leak negative opposition research."
The poor GOP just can't play well with others.
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