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Originally posted by Spanky
I have been in meetings for about seven days now about taking out Delay and four other incumbant Republicans. The project is is called revolt of the elders and is being headed by Pete McCloskey (former Congressman from my area and a former head of the California Republican League).
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You know, if you look at the actual list of what he's done, it's not that bad - nothing more than you see in so many long-term pols of both stripes. Is his main drawback just that the D's hate him with such an ungodly passion that it's worthwhile to jettison him? Is losing such an effective whip a reasonable price to pay for what sort of looks like nothing more than giving up so things can move on?
The internet comment was stoopid. The trips were nothing more than what many others have done. The ethics accusations could be read either way, from what I can see, and the much-reviled change of ethics rules only made them mirror the Dem rules, if I remember correctly. Frankly, I'm not sure where the beef is here.
(ETA - I may well have these wrong - I've paid very little attention to the late chapters of Delay.)
