Hastert Pledges to Fire Anyone Involved in Foley Cover Up

Oh heads are going to roll. Not Hastert's though, since no one will dare to own up to telling the fat man about this. Anyone who knows will be paid off, given cushy board jobs.


Look at the picture. Hastert even looks the part of the dishonest politician. The snarl on the face is the most indicative.

No wonder that other analysts find:

Two ... polls, those by CNN-Gallup and ABC News-Washington Post, showed that between 52 and 64 percent of those surveyed believe party leaders deliberately tried to cover up the wrongdoing by Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., who resigned last month. And three-quarters of the country consider Republican leaders' handling of the affair inappropriate, CNN-Gallup said.

While voters say such issues as the Iraq war, terrorism and the economy are more important to them than the handling of Foley's lurid electronic messages, polls show a sharp drop in public support for Republican congressional candidates.

Among likely voters, 58 percent say they plan to vote for Democrats in November, versus 37 percent who say they will vote Republican, according to the CNN-Gallup poll. The 21 percentage point margin is 5 points wider than it was a week earlier in the same poll.

The ABC-Post poll found registered voters favor Democratic over Republican candidates 54 percent to 41 percent. The 13-point margin also is 5 points wider than the last ABC-Post poll, taken a month earlier.

According to the CBS-New York Times poll, four out of five Americans think Republican leaders are more concerned with politics than the well-being of underage pages.

Above excerpt from Mercury News

and:

... the Washington Post/ABC survey found that the Foley matter wasn't helping Republicans, is a distant concern for voters, with many doubting that the Democrats would have handled it better.
Instead, "an unpopular war led by a beleaguered president has pushed the Republican Party back to a deep deficit in voter preferences

(From MarketWatch)

But:

GOP officials are urging lawmakers to focus exclusively on local issues and leave it to party leaders to mitigate the Foley controversy by accusing Democrats of trying to politicize it. At the same time, the White House plans to amplify national security issues, especially the threat of terrorism, after North Korea's reported nuclear test, in hopes of shifting the debate away from casualties and controversy during the final month of the campaign.

This shows that the Republican part politicizes everything and well deserves to lose power. The nation should be run "For the People" Not for Political Power Retention.

Last excerpt above from: "GOP Officials Brace for Loss Of Seven to 30 House Seats"