House Plots Strategy After Loss of DeLay

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By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent 4 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) - Shadowed by scandal, House Republicans face an uncertain new era after a day of upheaval that left Majority Leader
Tom DeLay under indictment and forced to surrender his powerful post.

House and Senate Republican leadership were due at the White House Thursday afternoon to plot legislative strategy with
President Bush.

"What we do here is more important than who we are," Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt (news, bio, voting record) said Wednesday after the rank and file named him as DeLay's replacement, at least for the time being. "We have an agenda to move forward here."

Democrats, 11 long years in the minority, said the GOP offered nothing of the sort.

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1. "What we do here is more important than who we are," says....

Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt.

Run mutherfucker run...we are coming after ever last one of you fucking crooked bitches.:mad: :argh: :spank: :grr:

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2. Retire, resign, spend more time with your families............

because we're coming for each and every one of you crooked bastards. If you're clean (fat chance of that) we'll spare you the embarrassment, but if you're dirty, and this goes for Democrats as well, we're kicking your asses out of our government. A new day is dawning, one where it isn't going to be "business as usual".

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3. They don't want too much light shining on Dreier

At the same time, conservative lawmakers quickly made known their unhappiness with Dreier as a potential stand-in for DeLay.

At a private midday meeting, several conservative lawmakers argued that Dreier's voting record was too moderate. According to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, some participants in the meeting said the Californian had voted in favor of expanded federal funding for stem cell research and against a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. There also was grumbling that the Californian favored a less restrictive policy on immigration than many conservatives.

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4. too bad the strategy is not based on the people instead of elites n/t

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5. Blount is just as bad...

...The political committee of Rep. Roy Blunt who is temporarily replacing Rep. Tom DeLay as House majority leader, has paid roughly $88,000 in fees since 2003 to a consultant under indictment in Texas with DeLay, according to federal records.

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6. Kiss your collective asses goodbye in '06, for openers.

Then pull the lid closed on your coffin in '08.