DeLay scales back usual power plays: Ethics flap is wearing on House majority leader, colleagues say
by John F. Harris and Mike Allen
updated: 12:00 a.m. ET May 9, 2005
washingtonpost.com
In the euphemism favored on Capitol Hill, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is "not staff driven." Translation: He is used to doing what he wants.
It happens all the time, DeLay friends and advisers say. An aide will suggest that the leader soften his tone, or back off just a bit from some inflammatory position. As often as not, the Texas Republican will respond with a snort, suggesting that the adviser is more worried about how a decision will play inside the Beltway than how it will be perceived — if it is noticed at all — by the rest of the country. [...] Read the rest at MSNBC:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7775787/
© Virginia Metze
updated: 12:00 a.m. ET May 9, 2005
washingtonpost.com
In the euphemism favored on Capitol Hill, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is "not staff driven." Translation: He is used to doing what he wants.
It happens all the time, DeLay friends and advisers say. An aide will suggest that the leader soften his tone, or back off just a bit from some inflammatory position. As often as not, the Texas Republican will respond with a snort, suggesting that the adviser is more worried about how a decision will play inside the Beltway than how it will be perceived — if it is noticed at all — by the rest of the country. [...] Read the rest at MSNBC:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7775787/
© Virginia Metze
Starmail - 11. Mai, 11:01
