If they are by Delay's people, then they are simply to give him an issue to grandstand...and fund-raise with. Hence, he doesn't dare take decisive action to bring this to a head and get it over with. He needs to keep it as an issue.
Sorry to be so cynical, but that's the way it appears to me...
Well .. you're entitled to always see the bad side of everything .. but I suspect it's more because you didn't vote for Bush to begin with.