'A Useful Servant'

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Time has a great cover story this week on Bush's relationship to DeLay. Turns out he's not really their kind of guy. I think ole' Gdub is a little more Connecticut than he wants us to believe.

Here's the money quote,

Even before DeLay's announcement that he would abdicate his leadership post, top Bush advisers tell TIME, the President's inner circle always treated DeLay as a necessary burden. He may have had an unmatched grip on the House and Washington lobbyists, but DeLay is not the kind of guy—in background and temperament—the President feels comfortable with. Of the former exterminator, a Republican close to the President's inner circle says, "They have always seen him as beneath them, more blue collar. He's seen as a useful servant, not someone you would want to vacation with."