WTF: DeLay on list of candidates to head OMB ?????

[Laura PourMeADrink]

http://www.firedoglake.com/

don’t know whether to laugh out loud, cry, or hope that this is true: Tom DeLay may be on the short list for the OMB job vacated by Joshua Bolten.

Yep, you read that correctly. According to UPI:

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.

Sides…hurt…from…laughing…wiping…eyes…whew…snicker…DeLay…cost-cutting candidate…hahahahaha

My gut tells me that someone in DeLay’s camp planted this story, but given the Shrub’s odd loyalty-thumb-his-nose-at-critics tendencies, and his inability to fire anyone for incompetence or problem behavior, this has just enough of a ring of crazy truth to be a remote possibility.

And the mind just reels as to how this could be used, over and over, in 2006 campaign commercials, doesn’t it? "DeLay declares there is simply no fat left to cut in the budget." Mwahahahaha. Truly a match made in heaven, isn’t it?

Nothing like the stench of scandal, indictment and corruption being invited in to monitor the way we spend the public’s government money.

[Bozita]

1. read a story about it yesterday - thought I was reading the "Onion"

I wasn't.

[BR_Parkway]

11. The way things work now, an Onion story on a felonious politician

who quietly resigned when caught in a scandal, a challenger from the other party being elected to that seat by a 80%+ majority, and the people being satisfied that justice was done would seem more like satire, huh?

[goclark]

2. his pay off for leaving his position ~ he can really do a lot of damage

in the new assignment.

[BlueManDude]

3. Go Ahead W - Make My Day.

[AndyA]

4. This will be the death knell for Republicans. Everyone knows DeLay

is as crooked as they come. He wrote the book on unethical and illegal politicians.

The gall of these people, they don't even pretend to be ethical any more!

[WI_DEM]

5. It's stupid and Rove knows it--it won't happen.

[Lasher]

6. The Hamper would provide excellent continuity in the Administration

He should get David Safavian's old job in the Office of Procurement Policy.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2005/Bush_Management_and_Budget_Procurement_chief_arre_0919.html

[BrklynLiberal]

7. Huge brass balls

[Bonhomme Richard]

8. Not likely .....unless delay has a ton of dirt on.............

this administration and threatened to release it unless he gets his way. He is as nasty as they come and I can just see him doing that.

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. Gee, I thought Abramoff had a lock on that job. nt

[BR_Parkway]

12. They'll probably put him on the Ethics investigation team

[Not Me]

10. A guy who is under indictment for money laundering being advanced

for OMB director. I eacho: WTF??

It so sad, because OMB-by its very nature- HAS to be clean.

[0007]

13. Put him right back where he started. Squirting bugs in prison.

I hope he becomes Bolton's right hand man. It just makes the GOP Party look screwy than ever, 'eh?