The Mikado
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« on: May 18, 2015, 03:14:12 PM » |
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The Bush Administration was actually very skilled at throwing non-Bush men in the Republican Party out in the cold the second they were vulnerable, the fall of Trent Lott right as the GOP retook the Senate in 2002 and the replacement with weak and solidly-pro-Administration Bill Frist as Senate Majority Leader is the key example.
Gingrich would have been impossible to control from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Gingrich was an egomaniac (an ego backed up by higher skill and creativity than the vast majority of Republican politicians) and not the type to bow to Bush's agenda. However, Gingrich was a career lightning rod and was very good at alienating fellow Republicans, and I could easily see a situation where Tom DeLay masterminded an anti-Gingrich coup to put a patsy like Hastert in the Speakership with Administration support, to be sprung the next time Gingrich inevitably shot his mouth off and said something controversial.
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