ICEBERG AHEAD Captain Hastert....
ICEBERG AHEAD?: This town is full of gloomy Republicans these days; on my way down H Street a couple of hours after the Hastert press conference, I ran into one of them, a young veteran of half a dozen races since high school, including the last Bush campaign. He's been biding his time till 2008 in the lucrative lobbying-industrial complex over on K Street ("Gotta stop renting someday," he says.) I asked him: in his opinion, would congressional leadership changes now could make a difference for Republican prospects this fall? "Sure," he said. "Like re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic probably made for a smaller splash."
Dennis Hastert may have thought his Thursday statement struck the perfect note of stalwart defiance -- but a little something may have gotten lost in the delivery. Because what Republicans actually heard, according to this GOP operative, was something along the lines of: "OK, everybody. On my mark... time to panic!" (Apparently, FOX News picked up on the message, too.) —Rebecca Sinderbrand 9:57 AM Permalink Trackbacks Comments (0)
Dennis Hastert may have thought his Thursday statement struck the perfect note of stalwart defiance -- but a little something may have gotten lost in the delivery. Because what Republicans actually heard, according to this GOP operative, was something along the lines of: "OK, everybody. On my mark... time to panic!" (Apparently, FOX News picked up on the message, too.) —Rebecca Sinderbrand 9:57 AM Permalink Trackbacks Comments (0)
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