Comments on: It’s the Lying CYA Cover-up GOP Hypocrisy…Again

By: shakespeare

shakespeare — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:58:35 +0000

GOP stands for Gross Old Pervert.

By: theExile

theExile — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:04:45 +0000

“In the hours after his resignation, speaker of the House Dennis Hastert said it was “unlikely” that Mr. Foley’s “No Congressional Page Left Behind” bill would become a law.”

Shouldn’t that be Mr. Foley’s “No Congressional Page’s Behind Left Alone” bill? Or is that too straight(?)forward(?)- straight and forward seem like such inappropriate words at the moment!

By: angie

angie — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:48:45 +0000

Simon– I appreciate very much what you are saying. We do have to get the money and the relentless pursuit for power out of our politics and return to the basics– serving the people and the Constitution and turning our back on fascism and empire.

We have lots of work to do in our young country and regaining balance in November is a good and necessary first step. After living thru these last 6 years, I pledge to never let my guard down again and to hold the pols accountable thru whatever means I have. A change is gonna come; there will be no rest for the weary. Constant vigilence is what we must be about.

By: yabadabado

yabadabado — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:14:08 +0000

The Rice/Tenet/Black meeting should have been in their appointment schedules? If not there, why? If there, why did the Commission not ask about it?

By: Lou Costello

Lou Costello — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:59:11 +0000

Gingrich: House Leadership Would Have Been Accused Of ‘Gay Bashing’ If They Investigated Foley ‘Overly Aggressively’

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/01/newt-foley/

Good one Newt!

By: Silverleaf

Silverleaf — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:47:39 +0000

There’s a great diary on Kos right now from downwithtyranny, describing an ad campaign for combatting the hypocrisy — go Blue America!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/1/15554/5046 (full disclosure — I’ve already made my own contributions.)

By: DrSinker

DrSinker — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:31:46 +0000

What I have trouble understanding is the following. If the GOP leadership knew about this some time ago, did they really think it wouldn’t come out eventually?

The bottom line is that they’re so much more in the sh!t now than had they dealt with this some time ago. This will have an impact on the elections, either with the specific race in Florida (which they’re now stuck with Foley on the ballot) or re: the culture of corruption. The timing is so much worse than a year ago, it makes zero sense.

I guess what I’m saying is that I’m having trouble believing the GOP leadership would be *this* stupid. I know that’s probably blasphemous in these parts, but…that’s where I am.

By: Bruce A.

Bruce A. — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:18:40 +0000

No doubt Foley will use all the free time he’s suddenly acquired to do the traditional: write his autobiography and present his side of the story.

I bet it would be a real page-turner.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:18:17 +0000

Geez…how many times do I have to say that I AM supporting the current work, donating quite a bit of money to the current cause and supporting these candidates, and that I do AGREE that you have to do things one step at a time.

All I was doing is commenting on a general narrative that I have seen for EVER on these things. For the past three years on blogs it’s been D’s/good, R’s/bad. I never said it’s just the next five weeks. It’s always been this way.

I’m simply saying that I personally think we should all focus, over the long term, on addressing the fundamental problems here in our system.

Over the long term, I’ve not seen that.

That was my point.

People get so defensive over the slightest sense that someone isn’t falling in lockstep with their narrative.

For Pete’s sake. I’m a progressive who supports all of the ideas on this and similar blogs (and donated financially to them), who has donated repeatedly to our candidates and spent a great deal of time supporting them in other ways, and when I simply wish to voice my believe that people aren’t, in my opinion, talking about the fundamental problems but instead we/good, they bad, I’m made to feel like I just don’t get it.

Thanks for welcoming my opnion here.

Simon.

By: Christy Hardin Smith

Christy Hardin Smith — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:05:00 +0000

Simon at 146 — there are less than 5 weeks to go before the mid-term elections. A wholesale overhaul of the system takes more time than that and, at the moment, I’m working with what I have to change on both large and small scale for the better. If that’s not fast enough for you, I’d suggest you do some work on the issue as well. The more fo us the better — but the framing for the next five weeks is going to be focused on electing Democrats because I see that as the next logical step in a long line of necessary ones. If you don’t agree, that’s fine, but you cannot make all of the changes all at one time — life simply doesn’t work that way outside of dictatorships or fantasyland, and I want to live in neither. I’m trying to work toward one realistic objective at a time, sometimes weaving in several at once where we can, but it’s an awful lot to juggle at once. It helps when people pitch in — griping from the sidelines gets us nowhere. Hopefully you are one of the “pitching in” types — if not, then try volunteering for a candidate in your area that you think can make a difference. And see what a difference in perspective that can give you.