It's not our fault! Clinton did it!
10/07/06 19:25
Wow. The
bullshit coming from the Republican spin machine
regarding ex-rep Foley is getting
really deep now.
It turns out (according to the right-wing) that this
whole scandal is a conspiracy orchestrated by
Democratic operatives affiliated with the Clenis. No
shit. That is the meme they have decided to run with.
Every Republican talking head in the country is
repeating it now, despite the fact that there
is
no evidence
whatsoever that the Democrats had anything to do with
it. In fact The Hill and
others have reported that the whistle-blower was a
paid GOP staffer, which makes sense to me because
if there was any evidence to back up claims of
Democratic involvement, the GOP would have found
it by now. You can bet your ass they have been
looking hard.
They want to believe that the Democrats cooked this up and timed it to influence the elections so they don’t have to consider the alternative, which is that they shot themselves in the foot. But the truth is that the Dems are just not competent enough to pull that off. So they are using the same gambit they usually do when the facts get in the way of the spin. Just ignore the facts and keep repeating the spin until it becomes accepted truth. Rush and the gang are hard at work on it, but I don’t think it’s going to fly this time. The public knows the basic facts too well this time and they not only know the facts, they understand them. A 53 year old Republican was attempting to prey upon teenagers entrusted to the care of the Republican-led congress and the Republican leadership looked the other way to avoid losing a Republican seat in the congress. Those facts are not going away. They can spin that all they want, but unless they produce some kind of electronic boner device that the Dems would point at Foley whenever a page walked by, this is going to remain a Republican scandal.
A staunch Democrat friend of mine told me today that if the Republicans hold on to power after this election then he was going to start voting for them himself, because that would mean they must have supernatural powers. That sounds about right to me. Even hard-core conservatives are onto them this time. I was watching the 700 Club yesterday (don’t worry, I took my meds first) and they were predicting Dennis Hastert would resign the Speakers post by the end of the weekend.
They want to believe that the Democrats cooked this up and timed it to influence the elections so they don’t have to consider the alternative, which is that they shot themselves in the foot. But the truth is that the Dems are just not competent enough to pull that off. So they are using the same gambit they usually do when the facts get in the way of the spin. Just ignore the facts and keep repeating the spin until it becomes accepted truth. Rush and the gang are hard at work on it, but I don’t think it’s going to fly this time. The public knows the basic facts too well this time and they not only know the facts, they understand them. A 53 year old Republican was attempting to prey upon teenagers entrusted to the care of the Republican-led congress and the Republican leadership looked the other way to avoid losing a Republican seat in the congress. Those facts are not going away. They can spin that all they want, but unless they produce some kind of electronic boner device that the Dems would point at Foley whenever a page walked by, this is going to remain a Republican scandal.
A staunch Democrat friend of mine told me today that if the Republicans hold on to power after this election then he was going to start voting for them himself, because that would mean they must have supernatural powers. That sounds about right to me. Even hard-core conservatives are onto them this time. I was watching the 700 Club yesterday (don’t worry, I took my meds first) and they were predicting Dennis Hastert would resign the Speakers post by the end of the weekend.
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