Repubs falling all over each other to distance from Bush

Hagel:
Criticism of Rove's politicization of terrorism and admission that wiretaps are violation of 1978 law.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/01/29.html#a6909

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/29/hagel-criticism/

REPUBLICANS are trying to get Bush to release all the Abramoff records. This is the showdown brewing - finally - between the interests of Congress - even a Republican led Congress, and Bush. Congress has two problems - a) they have to keep their job, unlike Bush and Cheney, and realize that they have to look like they are cleaning up Washington if they are to keep any of the K STreet bonanza that has kept them healthy, and b) they are realizing that the powers that Bush has been stealing from the executive branch could become permanent, even under future Democratic presidents, and they don't like that idea! I hope that some of them rise above all of this to realize that the Constitution set up a republic, not an empire!

THUNE, the man who took down Daschle, is also backing this Republican call for openness on Abramoff.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/29/thune-white-house-should-release-records-of-contacts-with-abramoff/

Of course, they realize that the more that Bush acts cagy, the more the taint rubs off on them. Also, the few who don't have 'taint' may be trying to position themselves to move in when the 'tainted' lose their jobs.

It's called infighting. One of the few political talents at which the Democrats actually supersede the Republicans!