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DeLay on short list for OMB job (... White House Job for Tom Delay)
UPI/ WashTimes ^ | Apr. 13, 2006

Posted on 04/13/2006 10:28:40 AM PDT by IrishMike

The White House is looking at a list of cost-cutting candidates to head the Office of Management and Budget, and Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, may be on it. The former House majority leader, who announced he will resign from Congress and is under a state indictment on political money laundering charges, is listed as a possible replacement for Josh Bolten, the U.S. News and World Report said. Bolten has been named incoming White House chief of staff.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush; election; elections; omb; politics; whitehouse
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If true, thats a set of 'cohones'
1 posted on 04/13/2006 10:28:43 AM PDT by IrishMike
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To: IrishMike

It would be great to see the Dems fume and spume over DeLay again. Stop, I'm getting too excited.


2 posted on 04/13/2006 10:30:41 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: IrishMike

You said it, friend.

Brass cohones. It reminds me of the movie Casino when the gov. of Nevada was trying to keep his nephew working for Sam "DeNiro" Rothstein.

"Perhaps there's something he could do a little lower down the trough?"


3 posted on 04/13/2006 10:30:54 AM PDT by AmericanRepublican (There are fools on both sides. Only the true Americans will prevail.)
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To: IrishMike

Delay and budgets do not belong in the same sentence. This is a bad move!!!


4 posted on 04/13/2006 10:31:58 AM PDT by misterrob (Teach a Liberal to think for himself and he'll vote Conservative for the rest of his life.)
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To: IrishMike
Would he have to be confirmed?
5 posted on 04/13/2006 10:33:48 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, over there, We won't be back 'til it's over Over there.")
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To: AmericanRepublican

Kind of like the current family dynasty of corruption in Nevada .... The Reids.

Current true story of corruption
vs
movie on story of corruption


6 posted on 04/13/2006 10:35:48 AM PDT by IrishMike (Dry Powder is a plus)
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To: IrishMike

Umm, wouldn't it make sense to wait and see if he's convicted or acquitted?


7 posted on 04/13/2006 10:36:47 AM PDT by CobaltBlue (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: IrishMike

Yeah, ranks right up there with nominating Harriet Miers as a brilliant idea.


8 posted on 04/13/2006 10:37:05 AM PDT by bagman
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To: IrishMike
This is a set of hugh brass balls.


9 posted on 04/13/2006 10:37:12 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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To: mariabush

I don't believe so, it's an appointed position ??

I may be / probably am wrong.


10 posted on 04/13/2006 10:38:15 AM PDT by IrishMike (Dry Powder is a plus)
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To: IrishMike
The White House is looking at a list of cost-cutting candidates to head the Office of Management and Budget,

It should be an easy job for DeLay, what with there being nothing left to cut from the budget.

11 posted on 04/13/2006 10:39:45 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (California bashers will be called out)
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To: IrishMike

recess appointment?


12 posted on 04/13/2006 10:41:48 AM PDT by GeorgefromGeorgia
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To: ElkGroveDan

You mean like..
you're doing a good job 'Brownie'
just before
You've got no job ?


13 posted on 04/13/2006 10:42:28 AM PDT by IrishMike (Dry Powder is a plus)
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To: IrishMike

LOL....I'm sure before he could take that job, he'd have to complete this trial in Texas. Of course, Tom will be found NOT GUILTY or the case could be thrown out. It's time for someone to look at this in Texas with the authority and get the damn thing thrown out.


14 posted on 04/13/2006 10:43:06 AM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc. 10:2)
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To: IrishMike

the headline should read Rooster Put In Charge of Henhouse. Maybe if Delay declines, Ted Stevens could take it.


15 posted on 04/13/2006 10:47:53 AM PDT by youthgonewild
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To: IrishMike

It would indicate a complete unseriousness on the part of the administration about cutting the budget, since Mr. Delay thinks that there's no fat left.


16 posted on 04/13/2006 10:48:35 AM PDT by NonZeroSum
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To: IrishMike

That's pretty funny -- Tom "Pork Barrel" Delay in charge of the OMB. This is a joke, right?


18 posted on 04/13/2006 10:50:28 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: IrishMike

Do you think The Hammer would do double duty as White House press spokesman?


19 posted on 04/13/2006 10:50:56 AM PDT by Kenny Bunkport
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To: USS Alaska

That's the Boston State House reflected in those brass balls. They must have been here for a visit, because there haven't been any indiginous in this state since Henry Cabot Lodge Sr. died!


20 posted on 04/13/2006 10:54:52 AM PDT by cotton1706
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