Foley resigns - Dems down to 14 needed House seats.
Republican Rep. Foley resigned today, a few days after those creepy emails to that 16 year old boy became public.
OH MY, I'd read some of the emails and they didn't sound that bad, but ABCNews has some of the IM's and they're pretty damn bad.
"In Congress, Rep. Foley (R-FL) was part of the Republican leadership and the chairman of the House caucus on missing and exploited children."
(Foley's name will stay on the ballot?, GOP knew months ago?)
Later: Even more and it's still worse.
OH MY, I'd read some of the emails and they didn't sound that bad, but ABCNews has some of the IM's and they're pretty damn bad.
"In Congress, Rep. Foley (R-FL) was part of the Republican leadership and the chairman of the House caucus on missing and exploited children."
(Foley's name will stay on the ballot?, GOP knew months ago?)
Later: Even more and it's still worse.
posted by mikevotes at
4:56 PM
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Cilliza said on Hardball the seat total for Dems is down to 12. The Foley seat, the Delay seat and the Kolbe seat are all expected to turn to Dems.
Also, Rothenberg updated his House/Senate races - all but one race moved toward Dems.
Is the 9/11 anniversary/national terrorism momentum/bump for the prez and the GOP over?
Between the NIE leak, the Woodward book, the Abramoff/Rove/Mehlman ties and now the Foley pedophilia scandal, it would seem to be.
The state and district numbers seem to still be moving toward dems. Circumstances seem to be aiding that as well.
Also, Rasmussen has Bush down to 40% approval.
Wow. They always say a week is a long time in politics, but it surely has been true this week. Think about what GOPers were thinking last Friday and what they're thinking this Friday.
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Reality-Based Educator, at 5:11 PM
That's true on the seats, I haven't really been counting closely yet, I'm just in a general root mode.
Much like my baseball team the Astros right now, I'm not going to worry about counting the games until we get close.
The 9/11 bump is dead. It had already started to fatigue before the NIE came out, and now it's just gone. That's a big deal, it was their big bullet. Interesting, check out this Laura Rozen post.
http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/004950.html
Yeah, I've been watching the pundit conventional wisdom snap back from last friday's Republian lean.
Iraq is the big issue, and it's not getting better. I think the critical turning point is when the polls started to show that a majority no longer thought that Iraq was part of the "war on terror."
Mike
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mikevotes, at 5:22 PM
If Hastert knew about Foley's pedophilia predilection months ago and did nothing about it (as John Boehner alleges in the Post tonight), then I think the culture of corruption problem comes back for the republicans. While the Abramoff thing might have bored and/or confused many Americans, they get congressmen sending 35 pages of sexual emails to House Pages and they get a person in the leadership knowing about the problem and not taking any action about it.
Remember the Houise Banking scandal? Remember how it hit late in the cycle and just crystallized all the disgruntlement voters felt for the Congress at the time. If the GOP leadership knew about Foley and did nothing, I think the Foley scandal could become this cycle's House Banking scandal.
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Reality-Based Educator, at 11:27 PM
Yeah. Fire, Fire, Fire.
If they knew and did nothing. If they just talked to him, or shifted his rules a bit. If they knew and let this guy still work with kids. This could could catch fire and be huge.
That coverup would have an echo of the Catholic church coverup.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 6:16 AM
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