CNN: Every revolution begins with the power of an idea and ends when the only idea left is power. That means the Republican revolution is dead!
The epitaph for the movement that started when Newt Gingrich and his forces rose from the back bench of the House chamber in 1994. It should have ended with Gingrich after his performance in the House but it may well have been written last week.
On conservative commentator Laura Ingraham's show, the longest-serving Republican House speaker in history explained why he would not resign despite a sex scandal that has produced a hail of questions about his failure to stop one of his members from cyber stalking teenage congressional pages. with positions changing like the tide and new facts coming to light daily, Hastert stepping down should be a foregone conclusion.
"If I fold up my tent and leave," Dennis Hastert told her, "then where does that leave us? If the Democrats sweep, then we'd have no ability to fight back and get our message out." can you believe it? Step down tomorrow or weeks from now I think it will all be good for us. i do believe they have gotten their message out loud and clear and the people are sick of the lying underhanded, corruptive, politics of the Republicans who have shown they can not be trusted with power.
That may have been the most damning admission yet in the unfolding scandal surrounding Florida Congressman Mark Foley: Holding on to power has become not just the means but also the end for the onetime reformers who unseated the calcified Democratic majority that had ruled the House for 40 years. It has become their only goal!
After controlling both houses of Congress for most of President Bush's six years in office, the GOP has a governing record that has dismayed those who fantasized about what Gingrich and his band of rebels might accomplish. That as you know is an understatement!
To win votes back home, lawmakers in session have been spending like sailors on leave, producing the biggest budget deficits in history. The party's approach to national security has taken the country into a war that most Americans now believe was a mistake and that the government's own intelligence experts say has shaped "a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives." http://www.guardian.co.uk/....
The current crisis arrived with a sex scandal that has muddied one of the GOP's few remaining patches of moral high ground -- their defense of family values and personal accountability.
Though Hastert and other Republican leaders say they heard last fall about the "over-friendly" approaches of a not-so-secretly gay congressman to a 16-year-old former page, they insist they never imagined anything like the more graphic instant messages that subsequently came to light. we're hearing too many conflicting changing stories now!
But shouldn't they have gotten chills at learning that a 52-year-old man had sent a teenager a creepy e-mail asking for a "pic of you"? Certainly, the page understood what the emails meant, which is why he forwarded it in August 2005 to the office of Louisiana Congressman Rodney Alexander, who had sponsored him for the page program. Plus what happened to Hastert only finding out last month? And what about the get into your underwear request? Why would you not get this on record and make sure it was out, at least to only cover yourself?
The House response -- John Shimkus, the Illinois congressman who oversees the page program, appears to have done nothing more than give Foley a private warning; he wasn't even stripped of his co-chairmanship of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children -- suggests that Republican leaders were motivated more by fear of electoral fallout than by concern for the young pages in their care. this is inexcusable if nothing else is!
And if they were worried the revelation would hurt their chances of holding onto the House, they turned out to be right. In the latest TIME poll, nearly 80 percent of respondents said they were aware of the scandal, and two-thirds of them were convinced that Republican leaders had tried to cover it up. We have to work harder to get that 80% down to zero. The entire country should know and be sick of all these lies and two faced underhanded games!
Among the registered voters who were polled, 54 percent said they would be more likely to vote for the Democratic candidate for Congress, compared with 39 percent who favored the Republican.
Hastert's job seems secure for the moment, barring any big new revelations, in part because the House Speaker is not merely a party leader but a role established under the Constitution. It would be difficult to replace him without summoning Congress back into town from the campaign trail. Nor would an ugly fight over who would succeed him be good for the party's prospects in November. I believe it is only a matter of time before the truth catches up with him too and he is forced to step down.
Meanwhile, GOP leaders are so desperate to find someone else to blame that they have been reduced -- with no indication that they see the irony -- to blaming a vast left-wing conspiracy. no shit, instead of cleaning their House they go after Dems for speaking the timely truth and outing their lies and corruptive power grabbing?
"The people who want to see this thing blow up," Hastert told the Chicago Tribune, "are ABC News and a lot of Democratic operatives, people funded by George Soros," the liberal financier who has become a bogeyman of the right. Hastert went on to suggest, without producing any proof, that the revelation was the work of Bill Clinton's operatives.http://www.cnn.com/...
Twenty-nine days before election day... Before the news broke of North Korea's nuclear test, it had been hard to imagine what events might pop up over the next four weeks to provide Republicans with some relief from the negative storylines of the Foley scandal and Iraq, where the rate of US troop casualties has shot up. Voters continue to call Iraq their top issue for the midterm elections, and the Foley scandal eclipsed last week's stock market highs and gas price and unemployment lows.
The news out of North Korea, bad as it might be for the Administration's diplomatic efforts there, returns Bush to the bully pulpit -- he'll make a statement at 9:45 am -- and may help Republicans return the focus to the more favorable, broader security debate. For example, Republicans occasionally hit certain Democrats for opposing a missile defense shield. But the ongoing House Ethics Committee and Justice Department probes will keep the Foley scandal in the news http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/
I don't really know about Soros, ABS News, or Dem operatives, but I know the rest of us are banking on this blowing up! Hastert has Clinton being responsible with no proof of anything! The blame game with no proof, that sounds typical Repub. They will use that garbage for all its worth on their followers. I can't stand it but I believe it will fail this time and the end is near.
Bush will attempt to stave this off this morning in using North Korea's nuclear test to stave off Disillusion with the Republican party! Having this in mind and knowing we must question everything with these underhanded Repubs. Did he allow this nuclear test through his inadequate Diplomacy to happen so he could use it for political gain? The Republican Revolution is ending but we must make sure the general public knows all the two faced underhanded Republican policies and do not let them forget!! What do you think about this?
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
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