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Tom DeLay To Set Own Policy Goals

Republican House Leader, Tom DeLay (R-TX), will offer a separate legislative agenda to a private meeting of Republican lawmakers. Emphasis mine:

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, criticized by some conservatives for toeing the White House line too often over the past three years, is about to announce his own legislative agenda.

"I have not discussed this with President Bush or anyone else in the White House, and have no desire to," Mr. DeLay told The Washington Times in an interview in his majority leader's office. "But if you don't set these conservative goals, you don't get conservative governance."

On Wednesday, Mr. DeLay will take the extraordinary step of introducing his own set of legislative and policy goals, for this year and beyond. ...

Sounds like a vote of 'no confidence' in Fearless Leaderman to me. Unless, of course, it's some sneaky Norquistian plan to make Bush look like a centrist. But who knows what goes on in the minds of Texas Republicans [pdf].