GOP Leadership Candidates Scared Stiff
I would say they're running scared, except they're not. Since the judge failed to dismiss all charges against Rep. Tom DeLay, either the office of House majority leader or that of House majority whip will be vacant when Congress returns next year. But so far, despite virulent backbiting among the Republicans, and a streak of ruthless ambition among many Republican Congressmen that would match up against Caesars or Borgias or Mafiosi, no one has declared his candidacy for the majority leader job. Rep. Roy Blunt is currently acting as both majority whip and majority leader, and has yet to say which office he wants next year, if either. In fact, he has actually requested other candidates emerge for the offices. So far, only Rep. Zach Wamp is running for majority whip. House Speaker Dennis Hastert is not regarded as particularly effective, either, but no one is even considering running against him. In the wake of many Republicans being disgraced or exposed as either criminal or merely egregiously corrupt and willing tools of larcenous corporate interests, it seems hard to find a Republican Congressman who wants to assume a higher profile. Maybe when the press and prosecutors go back to not doing their jobs, that will change.
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