"Longing for the strong arm of Tom Delay" Robert Novak

[kpete]

Malady afflicts GOP in House, Senate
November 14, 2005
BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST

Last Wednesday, leaders of conservative and moderate factions in the House Republican conference sat down to discuss a joint call for new leadership elections. No agreement was reached, and the events of the next 24 hours destroyed the budding coalition while exposing the ineffectiveness of current leaders. Abandonment of oil drilling in the Arctic failed to appease the moderate bloc, and the leaders pulled down the budget-cutting bill late Thursday.

Conservatives to whom I talked were outraged less by the moderates than coddling that did not begin with Speaker Dennis Hastert but was started in 1995 by Speaker Newt Gingrich's Republican control of the House. "I hate it that the leaders kill ANWR because of Sherry Boehlert and Chris Shays ," said a California congressman who asked that his name not be used.

Last week's breakdown in the House promoted wistful Republican longing for the strong arm of suspended Majority Leader Tom DeLay. But nobody has a quick solution for what to do when Congress reconvenes today.

The Republican Party does not know how to save the budget bill that it cannot afford to lose. A weakened Bush, off to Asia Tuesday, will not be around for one-on-one lobbying. A way out is to pass a budget with neither ANWR nor budget cuts and approve a tax bill without investment tax cuts. The Grand Old Party's mission, apart from a vigorous foreign policy, then would be legislation fitting the special needs of its top business contributors -- a role the moderates could accept.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak14.html

[yellowcanine]

1. Boo hoo, Nofacts. Cry me a river.

[Clark2008]

2. I'm longing for the handcuffed arm of Tom Delay, myself.

:7

[Lowell]

3. Why isn't Novak in prison?

I can't believe this moron is still out there writing his drivel. He should be in some prison in Bulgaria being tortured into revealing the traitors who gave him Valarie Plame's name. There is just no justice.

[Talismom]

6. Just what I was thinking! Why does this traitor have a voice in the

media rather than a cell in a prison? Who is stupid and immoral enough to bother giving credence to anything he has to say? Not me!

[WilliamPitt]

4. I've read this sentence ten times

"Conservatives to whom I talked were outraged less by the moderates than coddling that did not begin with Speaker Dennis Hastert but was started in 1995 by Speaker Newt Gingrich's Republican control of the House."

...and I still don't understand it.

[Clark2008]

5. Novakula probably was drunk when he wrote it.

In the months before his ousting off television, he sounded like he was slurring his words pretty heavily.

[jackster]

7. god, I thought it was just me....

nice to know that someone of Will's intellect is as befuddled as I!

Poor Bob, he is getting rather long in the tooth...

[WilliamPitt]

9. I think he's trying to write like George Will

and failing.

[sojourner]

10. Oh, and I thought it was just me....

: B-) :

[pretzel4gore]

11. carrion visions dancing in novak's head

imagine the hyhena like lip licking that goes on when novak talks to his fellow 'conservatives'(!)
imagine the smell of it, the iceblood disdain

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Don't worry, Novak. Once you're in jail, you'll find many long

arms to satisfy you. You sick pervert.