"Blunt Will Seek to Continue Indicted DeLay's Political Agenda "

[dajoki]

link
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aNf0_sJ1FxDk&refer=us

Blunt Will Seek to Continue Indicted DeLay's Political Agenda
Sept. 29 (Bloomberg)

U.S. House Republicans chose continuity over change in selecting Roy Blunt, a long-time lieutenant to Majority Leader Tom DeLay, to step into Delay's role after a Texas indictment forced him out of his post.

Blunt, 55, the No.3 House Republican, won the support of the party's 231-member caucus after social-conservative groups rebelled over House Speaker Dennis Hastert's initial plan to replace DeLay with Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier, who has a less conservative voting record.

Republican lawmakers said they rallied around Blunt, a one- time university president who became a top fund-raiser, in part to ensure stability. ``This is very similar to a battlefield situation where a leader has been wounded and taken out of battle,'' Representative Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican, said in an interview. The party decided to ``stick with the chain of command,'' he said.

Blunt and his leadership colleagues signaled that they don't plan major changes in their legislative agenda, including extending expiring tax cuts, spending money on reconstruction after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and seeking spending reductions in entitlement programs such as Medicaid, which provides health-care to poor people. ``The ideas are bigger than we are,'' Blunt said in a Washington press conference.

[mike_c]

1. the pigs are all connected by a network of anal trophylaxis...

Ass sucking toadies. They're mostly not even neocons, who at least have a misguided philosophy. The repig leadership is simply-- and crudely-- venal.

[dajoki]

2. very descriptive, i love it!! n/t

[strategery blunder]

3. Yeah, he made it painfully obvious today

details are on the DU homepage:banghead:

[Neil Lisst]

4. Blunt

Huh-huh. You said "blunt."
--- Butthead

I can't help it. I laugh every time I hear them say his name on the news. Little does he know the role he plays in Big Boi's music.


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[tanyev]

5. So when Delay goes to jail, will they still be checking in with him

to get their marching orders? Shameful.

[dajoki]

6. i think blunt ...

will go for a power grab.