We have now had 13 people RSVP for Saturday so its shaping up to be a great party. The great thing about e-vite is that it tells you who has read the invitation and when. Scary technology. The sooner you all respond the better idea we’ll have about how much food we’ll need, hint, hint.
The Foley story is turning out to be the gift to the Democrats that keeps on giving this election season. Nothing energizes the Republican base more than a little sexual scandal. Unfortunately for the Republican House, the base is being energized against its representatives. No less a conservative bastion than the Moonie-run conservative paper The Washington Times has called for Speaker Hastert’s resignation in the wake of revelations that Hastert had been notified of the “sick, sick, sick” e-mails Foley sent to a 16 year-old page over a year ago. After being caught lying about having seen these initial e-mails, Hastert is proffering the dubious excuse that he didn’t think there was anything about them that merited concern. The Times wasn’t having it: “Either he was grossly negligent for not taking the red flags fully into account and ordering a swift investigation, for not even remembering the order of events leading up to last week's revelations -- or he deliberately looked the other way in hopes that a brewing scandal would simply blow away.”Either way, he’s fucked.
The best part of this is that as more salicious e-mails and IM’s are released, the Republicans will be wholly unable to divert the media’s attention towards the election. As David Gergen noted yesterday, “"This story is going to trace itself up to just exactly who exactly in the leadership of the Republican Party knew what when. And that is going to keep the story alive for day after day, and keep the Republicans on the defensive, with the election just around the corner." I find a certain amount of irony and poetic justice in the fact that a sex scandal may very well sink the Republicans at the polls this fall. After the crap they put Bill Clinton through and their incessant bleating about the ten commandments and family values, at the end of the day their hypocracy is so transparent as to disgust even their most ribald conservative base. Joseph Farah, editor of the ultra-conservative WorldNetDaily commented yesterday that he has “concluded Republicans are unworthy of retaining control of the federal government.”
The Republican leadership’s desire to sacrafice 16 year old boys to save their own political asses is the kind of amoral shit thatdoes not play well in soccer-mom red state America. The Democrats have been somewhat silent on this one, following the old political adage that you don’t try to murder your opponants when they’re already committing suicide. Let’s just hope that the media plays true to form and keeps flailing away at this for a few more weeks because its bound to attract the interest of the moronic masses more than Iraq or indefinite detention.
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