Wow. It sounds as if Tom Delay just awoke to the concept of separate branches of government. He may actually do something without Karl Rove’s permission:
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. He said that while he was still working on the specifics, his proposed initiatives “will cover three basic issues: security, prosperity and family.”
If you don’t set these conservative goals, you don’t get conservative governance? Just who is it that’s be calling the shots in Washington, anyway?
Sounds to me like trouble in the ranks.