October 02, 2006
I suppose I was hoping they'd come to their collective senses. I was thinking perhaps they didn't deserve to get wiped out in November.
Now, we find out about this disgusting freak Mark Foley. Now, any group has a few bad apples, but from what I'm seeing so far, Foley's lecherous behavior had been an "open secret" in the Capitol for some time. Anyone in authority who looked the other way on this one deserves to lose his or her position. I'm 100% with Michelle on this one. I really don't care if Foley's emails were doctored and "sexed up" after the fact. I don't care if the Dems have done the same thing in the past. As unfortunate as these facts may be, they take nothing whatsoever from the culpability of Mark Foley and any in the GOP leadership who were aware of his bullshit. Heads should roll, and they should roll now.
Now, on top of this Foley debacle, we have Bill Frist openly advocating bringing the Taliban back into the Afghani government. Dr. Rusty already said everything I have to say on Frist and the Taliban. And on Rumsfeld and Bush, for that matter.
No one knows whether the GOP will retain control of the House and Senate in November, but if they lose, I won't be shedding a single fucking tear for them. For the nation, perhaps, but not for them. Yes, the Dems would almost certainly take over and build a bizarre, fucked-up circus of inanity in a space that once housed honorable assemblies of reasoned statesmen. Yes, the Dems would almost certainly create a royal mess of things as they retake and clumsily grasp the slippery reins of power. And, yes they will almost certainly spend the next two years disproving the already dubious notion that they couldn't be worse than the Republicans.
Even if all that comes to pass, and the rest of us are forced to stand by and watch as perhaps an entire branch of the government of the last, best hope for mankind descends into a fit of complete and total lunacy for a season, I will at least find solace in the fact that I wasn't complicit in it.
On top of that, the jokes will pretty much write themselves.
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As for Foley.. he's gotta go. AND anybody who knew about it and wasn't smart enough to dump him. I suspect that nobody knew or they'd have dumped him long before election season. Still it's the Democratic October surprise.
And from the Republicans, we get a 30 year old video of John Murtha.
Fun, stuff, but I think that the Republicans lose conrol of the house, even if I don't stay home.
Posted by: Lokki at October 02, 2006 08:49 PM (wsIiu)
Posted by: Rusty at October 02, 2006 09:01 PM (JQjhA)
Also, I think the impression that his actions were an "open secret" is probably just your typical Cap Hill crowd trying to seem "in the know". The Dems are ginning this up a lot, because it's sort of their big opportunity. Sure, if people were involved in a cover-up lets get rid of them... but let's also calm down a little and weigh the evidence. A lot of the hysteria is apparently caused by the fact that most people don't know the difference between an email and an instant message. It's all pretty much electronic magic to them anyway.
And if the Dems take over, we'll make lemonade...
Posted by: Demosophist at October 02, 2006 09:20 PM (hSo4/)
as as I am by a nuclear device going off in a major western city. Sorry
about that. Call me corrupt, jaded, morally compromised, whatever.
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Have to agree here.
Posted by: Good Lt at October 02, 2006 09:20 PM (lvyez)
Posted by: the bAlter dirL at October 02, 2006 09:34 PM (wWnJi)
Posted by: Good Lt at October 02, 2006 09:37 PM (lvyez)
Foley's pedophilia won't help the Democrats, and it won't hurt the Republicans.
The danger is that apathetic Republicans will stay home on election day and allow Nancy Pelosi's plastic surgery enhanced face become speaker.
You are mad because of a pedophile who doesn't even represent the party? You are mad because Hastert and Frist spend too much money and don't stick it to the Mexicans bad enough?
Geezus, don't allow your anger to enable a party bent on avenging Billary's impeachment.
Posted by: Darth Vag at October 02, 2006 09:53 PM (HSkSw)
Sorry, worse, much worse has happened in D.C, then this guy's sick fanatasies.
Posted by: whocares at October 02, 2006 10:15 PM (hGibF)
Posted by: Gleep! at October 02, 2006 11:16 PM (RqYFa)
Posted by: Subvet at October 02, 2006 11:41 PM (DNVxw)
Posted by: pivalleygirl at October 03, 2006 01:27 AM (G8qYZ)
As I said before, I won't be shedding any tears for the GOP politicians in D.C. if they manage to lose control of the House or Senate this election. The nation? Yes. The politicians? No.
Posted by: The All-Seeing Pirate Ragnar at October 03, 2006 04:21 AM (X/ebd)
Well we could have a few things to worry about.
Posted by: SeeMonk at October 03, 2006 07:47 AM (7teJ9)
and allow Nancy Pelosi's plastic surgery enhanced face become speaker.
I think I'll be laughing at that one for awhile ...
Posted by: Sharm at October 03, 2006 08:02 AM (G0B8N)
Posted by: Howie at October 03, 2006 09:17 AM (YdcZ0)
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