In House Races, More G.O.P. Seats Are Seen at Risk
There are signs that the furor over the Congressional page scandal is sapping the enthusiasm of religious conservatives.
Let’s see. The GOP have annoyed economic liberals with big government conservatism, foreign policy realists with Iraq, and now their religious base with covering up the sexual harrassment of pages by Florida Congressman Mark Foley.
About the only Republican feeling good about November at the moment is Arnie. As long as George W. Bush stays away from California.
How can Foley’s transgressions hurt the GOP? I thought he was now a Democrat.
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Hallelujah! At last. At last, a Heaven-sent reason for all right-thinking anti-abortionists, KuKluxKlansmen, intelligunt-designers, coke-n-amfetymeen dealers, members of the Nukes-Fer-Jeezus Bible Church inc., over-the-horizon supporters of the fight in Iraq, beneficiaries of the Hurricane Katrina windfall and all sorts of other scoundrels and scalliwags to vote against the Republicans in the election.
They can shout from the roof-tops about how they upheld morality, decency and Mom’s apple-pie by voting against those G-d m-f Republicans and all their unnatural acts and suxual prevertions and what all.
Assuming, of course, that the Prezident doesn’t find a security emergency to delay the election until the year 2031.
My only concern is that tawdry page-fiddling may distract voters from TEH EVILS of the Clinton blowjob!!
Now consider that the US doesn’t have an electoral commission to draw up electorate boundaries – it’s one thing for seats to switch at election times under our elections, but with the major parties effectively setting their own boundaries seats rarely change hands in large numbers.
Some polls indicate a shift of fifty seats – one seat in nine – in the US House of Reps. This is small change in other parliaments – it wouldn’t be enough to defeat many of the State Governments here, or Blair, and it would send the Coalition into minority government Federally. In US terms, it’s a political tsunami.
A Democrat win in both houses of the US Congress (and let’s not get ahead of ourselves, this is a tough ask) could mean Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld get impeached. This is the only reason why otherwise sensible Australians should care about Foley, ‘macaca’, firefighters in Montana, or the Senate race in Rhode Island.