Would Republicans hide known problems with Foley until after elections?
957941
We have come to recognize the Bush Administration as keeping all kinds of secrets down through the years. They are not about to change at this point. They may change if they lose power but never have we seen so many crooks.
981725
The main issue with this guy is his appointment as Majority Whip, isn't it? Perhaps Republican spinners and agitators figure the dumb masses don't understand this and that it's better to play on his membership on an Intelligence Committee. \n\nBut no matter, you've raised an issue about serious charges made against Alcee Hastings while he was a judge 25 years ago. The alleged bribery occurred in 1981, and a judge taking bribes is very serious. This is a complex case, and it seems to involve a partial acquittal. I can't find much more information now, but I'm sure there will be articles reviewing his history in the next few days and weeks.\n\nI'd be more concerned if there were more recent charges. Perhaps he's kept his nose clean knowing that he got a free pass in the early 1980's.\n\nI hate to say "the other side does the same" because this is a frequent and usually false Republican argument. However, when it comes to the small pool of candidates for Congressional leadership, a direct and fair comparison can be made.\n\nA few years ago, John Boehner, the current  Republican Majority Leader passed out checks from tobacco lobbyists to other members of the House, right on the floor of the house. Two other guys that were in line for Tom DeLay's job had records that were even more tarnished. And of course, Tom DeLay, the former Majority Leader, is under indictment and will likely do jail time for election law violations.\n\nCurrent Speaker of the House Hastert, failed to remove Foley and endangered young pages for as long as 5 years. Hastert got his job because the candidate before him had too much taint, and the moral majority leader of the impeachment against Clinton, Newt Gingrich, was a serial adulteror who was involved in a long affair with a young aide.\n\nAll I can say is the leadership pool seems pretty tainted, and if someone's record  has been clear for 25 years, that's probably the best they can do. After all, McCain was heavily involved in a scandal involving the failure of the savings and loan industry about 25 years ago also. And that fact will probably not impact his bid for the presidency.
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I am very disappointed by the results of the election, but I also see some upsides. Maybe the republicans will wake-up to their core values. \n\nHere is a list of what they did wrong and how they should fix them:\n\n1. They allowed a single congressman to almost single handedly bring down the Republican Party by not exposing his behavior when they first discovered it. Foley should have been exposed months ago.\n\nSolution: They need to take a close look at those in the House and expose corruption whenever they find it. Don’t turn a deaf ear, but pay attention and be proactive in rooting out corruption. Republicans need to reestablish the moral high-ground. They have clearly lost it.\n\n2. The Republicans need to pay more attention to the middle class. They have constantly ignored the need for medical care and they are doing nothing about the shift of wealth to the already super rich.\n\nSolution: Introduce Windfall taxes when companies like Exxon take advantage of natural disasters to make ridiculous profits. Their profits should have gone to Katrina victims and not to the fat cat executives. There should be higher taxes levied against executive perks and there should be penalties in the form of higher taxes to companies where executives earn extremely high multiples of their average employee’s wages.\n\n3. President Bush needs to fire Donald Rumsfeld. The benefits of keeping him in office are out weighted by his hard headedness and arrogance. There are lots of people that could do a good job as Secretary of Defense. Bush should have cut his losses and let Rumsfeld retire gracefully instead of being forced out of office by voters wanting change.\n\nSolution: Rumsfeld to retire and appoint a young hard charging good communicating new leader.\n\n4. Neither party has been able to come up with the solution for the illegal alien problem. Nearly all Americans from both parties agree that this is one of the most serious problems in America today.\n\nSolution: Form a bipartisan committee to come up with comprehensive legislation to address the problem and then implement it fully.\n\nSince change is what the voters wanted it disappointed me that many of the Democrats that have been part of the problem were not voted out. \n\nThere are many more things to change, but I can’t list them all here.\n\nThe Republicans need to stick to their core values, but need to make some serious changes or 2008 will look worse than last night.
726890
Before Bush a person could feel safe telling each other how they felt about a sitting President...are those days gone ? I will vote out of fear in november ...just like the Republicans want me to...Fear of their Party running my Country straight down the tubes!!!
830230
That's because the Repuglicans cut and run when their friends become entangled in a mess that could bring them down, an example being mark Foley and how all of the Repuglicans showed support before his scandal and now they wont even mention his name.
817255
Its always important to have balanced info.  I think both sides could use a little balancing act before the election.  Will it happen?  NO.  The repukes are dead-set against being honest.
345052
Considering that he's pulled out of the re-election race due to low numbers in the polls, it doesn't seem like a good idea. Add to that his other woes of late, and he seems to be more of a liability than an asset to the Republicans, especially in a bid for the presidency--unless he can improve his image and popularity between now and then.
954480
its pretty much over now but won't be certified till the 17th then the loser has the right to ask for a recount...so we may not know for sure who won till late December....however it is pretty much impossible to make up 6,000 or more votes...Webb has won Virginia...it would take a miracle for the republican incumbent to win in a recount...it is in the bag that the dems will control both the house and the senate
439105
I'll bet Bush said that! Tom Delay should be in prison with Bush. He is just covering for Bush's @ss. When the Senate & House change in November, all of these things will come to the surface. They will reinstate these charges Federally. The Republicans that want to stay alive will start jumping ship. It's a coming.
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He doesn't answer because it would be self-incriminating.... there isn't an investigation because the Congress is Republican...\nThe Republican Congress is the one that started the Clinton investigation...\nI would say that after the next election... investigations into a lot of different aspects will occur
811499
Yes.\n\nI just hope we do find out who did or didn't know. I don't care what party they are in. \n\nFamilies trust these politicians when they send their teenage children to Washington to be interns, etc..\n\nNo sort of pedophilia should be acceptable no matter if it is just emails... which I highly doubt it was just emails btw.
742116
Not this year. After the Kerry/Bush election they've put poll working on lock down (no cell phones allowed either) until after the polls close so there's no false reporting.
1074921
not realy i have  trouble with people who do not own companies that employee more then25 people or incomes in eccess of 500,000 annualy being republicans so they all must be conservatives and democrats should try to get there votes in the last week of the next presidential election we should all leak a story that republican presidential candidate has paid for his college girl freinds abortion and see what happens the mear suggestion might cost him  millions of votes right or wrong but then again they are stuborn people who would not beleive it anyhow once they make up there minds it  takes an act of congress to change there minds.they stick by there man saying he didnt do it it all lies you gotta get them before the mind is closed to new information the women go for the kindest looking and most honest looking guy.the men have to vote with the wifes or not get any for four years till the next election .republican husbands have been know to take mistresses for four years and all of a sudden abandone them .\nSo i say there is some truth to the rumors.
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yes he should come clean but he wont, cause he is a coward. he is constantly changing what he says, he says what he thinks other people want to hear not what he really thinks. like for example he was for the war, then he wasn't. i call him scary kerry or the flip flopper.
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To follow up on Reid would distract the public from what the Journalistic community feels is the paramount issue, proving that conservatives in general and republicans in particular are vile and nasty and not to be trusted.\n\nReid has huge issues.  He failed to inform his senate colleauges of his ownership interests in 3 land deals, not just the one that made brief ripples in the news.  He used campaign funds to pay personal obligations.  He also filed fraudulent reports to conceal these facts.  If I sign a tax return that I know is false I will go to jail.  The doc's Reid filed all affirm that he swears the information to be true.  He committed crimes.\n\nI don't know what the IRS is chasing him over but I'd bet it has something to do with the fact that he enters land partnerships with millions of dollars of assets but he has no documentation to prove what his investment, liability or profits, or even who he's entering into partnership with.  Again, if I conducted business in this fashion, the IRS would sieze my assets and tell me to prove that everything I had wasn't the fruit of fraud or crime.  Yes, the IRS can and does do just that.  Reid is receiving preferential treatment.
659543
Because New Orleans is an issue Republicans can not spin enough to make themselves look better than the Dem's. They can with immigration, that's what all the fuss is about. The elections are coming up.. Neither problem will really be fixed..
877539
Probably because a full scale investigation of the Foley scandal will uncover a lot of dirty little democrat secrets. Lady Pelosi was not very happy with the appointment of Louis Freeh to lead the Foley investigation. Freeh was the FBI director under the Clinton administration and has a history of being non-partisan.