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Title: The Republicans' Perfect Storm?
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San Francisco Chronicle
URL Source: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/for ... detail?blogid=16&entry_id=9386
Published: Oct 2, 2006
Author: The Ross Report
Post Date: 2006-10-02 11:15:18 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 110
Comments: 3
One wonders at what point a political edifice starts irredeemably to crumble. First this. Then this. Followed by this. While Bush administration defenders say critics are drawing the wrong conclusions from the leaked parts of the NIE report, that Bob Woodward's book is full of "myths", and that the Mark Foley affair is no worse than various Democratic congressional and presidential indiscretions, it is hard to see how things won't get worse before they get better (assuming they do) for Republicans, with mid-term elections just four weeks out. Apart from the fallout from what some will construe as a GOP leadership coverup in the Mark Foley affair -- one Republican has already said House Speaker Dennis Hastert "lied" about what he knew and Connecticut Republican Chris Shays has said anyone in a leadership comes position who knew about it should step down -- along comes a new book about Colin Powell's experiences in the Bush administration which will only add to the "state of denial" flames. Also lurking out there, in what appears to be an increasingly leak-happy atmosphere is another "damning" Iraq intelligence report, which, California Rep. Jane Harman, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, wants released. The Washington Post's excerpts of Bob Woodward's book can be found here. Bob Woodward is interviewed on "60 Minutes" tonight. The Post's Sunday magazine article on Colin Powell can be found here. Emails between Rep. Mark Foley and a congressional page can be found here. IMs from Rep. Foley to the congressional page can be found at a link here.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
and where's the story about the suspension of habeas corpus?
No public interest. I doubt you would find 1 in 10 people on the street of your local hometown that even knew what it is. >/
Who got suspended? What team did he play for? Was it steroids? He sounds foreign. Must be a baseball player... Oh well, he's not in the playoffs, is he? Yawn.
the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal bread.
#2. To: angle (#1)
and where's the story about the suspension of habeas corpus?
#3. To: angle (#1)
and where's the story about the suspension of habeas corpus?
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