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  • Fred Barnes: After the Hammer, a Blunt Force (The White House will miss DeLay more than you think)

    10/01/2005 2:18:13 PM PDT · by RWR8189 · 7 replies · 959+ views
    The Weekly Standard ^ | October 10, 2005 | Fred Barnes
    WITH TOM DELAY ON THE sidelines, things will be different on Capitol Hill, especially for President Bush. The White House will no longer command an automatic majority in the House of Representatives--that is, the votes of nearly all 231 Republicans--on any bill the president endorses. In the shuffle that saw DeLay replaced as majority leader by Roy Blunt, Bush came out a loser.This is counterintuitive because the Missouri Republican has a warmer relationship with the White House, particularly with deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, than DeLay ever did. Blunt's close ties with the president go back to 1999, when...