Fri 6 Oct 2006
*sigh*
I wanted to see Hastert and the leadership out, but it has to be for the right reasons. If he resigns over the Foley fiasco then there is little chance a small government minded Republican will replace him.
Of course, if the GOP loses the house that may change. But a loss right now will get blamed on the sex scandal and not on the fact the GOP majority hasn’t been fiscal or conservative in the past 6 years.
October 6th, 2006 at 7:03 am
Andrew Sullivan touched on this yesterday:
“Now, the very homophobia these people stoked and used is suddenly turning back on them. Part of me is distressed that the GOP could lose not because of spending recklessness, corruption, torture, big government, pork, and a hideously botched war … but because of a sex scandal which doesn’t even have (so far as we know) any actual sex. But part of me also sees the karmic payback here.”
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By the way, having to comment in multiple places from reading a single feed is bloody annoying. :-p
October 6th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Sex and violence sell everything. Wack a cop with a cell phone, big news and get voted out. Have a sex scandal… nothing better to get people fired up. Have an economic policy that hampers growth and harms millions? *YAWN* Trample a few rights that only ‘kooks’ would care about? Who cares? Want people to get motivated to vote an incumbent out? Have that incumbant run through congress attacking people with a weed wacker. In comparison, the weed wacker does almost no damage to the country, but I guarantee you that would get people excited.
In short, people don’t care about the important issues, only about sensational news so don’t expect fiscal policy to be an overiding issue anytime soon.