In a piece at RCP that might be interpreted as a pre-emptive strike by Tom DeLay, Robert Novak describes the attempt by the NYT to find a prominent GOP figure to provide the paper an anti-DeLay op-ed piece. Novak describes the solicitation of Bob Livingston for the piece:

The importance of such a column by so prestigious a Republican as Livingston would break a solid GOP front supporting DeLay. Potential Republican defectors have stayed loyal to DeLay because of Democratic leaders. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, abandoning traditions of at least minimum courtesy between party leaders, has led the campaign against her Republican counterpart. Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the aggressive new chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, has made this the cornerstone of efforts to recapture the House in 2006.

We’d guess that there will appear such an op-ed piece one of these days, and that the response of the DeLay camp might be: we told you about this weeks ago.

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