U.S. News & World Report (hat tip
Raw Story) reports a real shocker:
Incoming White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten is said to be leaning toward selecting an outsider with strong fiscal conservative credentials to take his spot as director of the Office of Management and Budget, according to some insiders.
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Sources said that he is considering former and current House members for the post. One associate even suggested that retiring Rep. Tom DeLay was being considered, though the most likely pick would be from a conservative budget association.
My take below the fold...
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE God... let this be true!
This move would be so obviously stupid, and politically insane that they just might do it! It would be the President saying "up your's" basically to the Dems, (and we know he loves doing that). Plus Delay would be a great fit with all the other crooks in the administration.
This really is to good to be true however. I simply can not imagine the administration hiring an indicted public official, no matter how much they'd like to give us reality types heartburn.
Can you imagine the spectre of the White House looking for someone for OMB with "strong fiscal conservative credentials" and even considering Tom Delay? I mean it really boggles the mind. Mr. there is no fat in the budget, who has shepherded the budget process through the House during the greatest expansion of federal debt in the nations history. This is their fiscal conservative champion?
Given the chance to advise the White House on this issue, I would double dare them to hire Mr. Delay.