Dreier, who is a
closet heterosexual and faced a vicious and narrow reelect battle in 2004 (and a top target in 2006), is supposedly
Hastert's choice to succeed DeLay.
So, how will the crazies in the House GOP caucus respond? The also-corrupt Roy Blunt was supposedly next in line as majority whip. Will we get a power struggle? While DeLay may talk about his stepping down as being "temporary", his case will take years to resolve. If "temporary" means a few years, then yeah, it might be temporary.
Fun trivia for your next cocktail party: Dreier was voted the "best dressed" congressman by a landslide in the Washingtonian's 2004 Best and Worst of Congress edition.