Pederasts on the Hill
Boy does it get steamy in the foggy bottom. Finally, the Democrats have hit home with a full-blown sex scandal instead of boring wonkish policy talk that makes the middle-American eyes glaze over.
Lack of evidence notwithstanding, the breaking Foley story was suspiciously well-timed and suggested that the Democrats might have finally done some homework, reading from the Karl Rove handbook. The usual Republican accusations of an evil Democrat conspiracy are beside the point when the dirty laundry is hung on the line. The elephant in the room is a sexagenarian (sexygenarian?) U.S Congressman diddling kiddies, and whether it was political sandbagging or not, the elephant is still in the room.
I don't know who's behind the coup, but I would go looking behind Larry Flynt's vault door, as one of the only people on the Left that seems to understand that one sordid controversy is worth a thousand policy prescriptions. The swinging electorate says Democrats don't stand for anything; but now they don't have to do anything but stand there. And get elected. If I were interested in getting elected I would spend most of my time looking for skeletons in the other guy's closet. In Washington, you're sure to find something.
Some may think it's a shame that it took a tawdry tale to turn the tide, when Republicans have done so very much more to deserve getting fired. It seems that no amount of hybris, malfeasance, incompetence, miscalculation, pork-barrel feasting, chronic overspending or failed foreign policy has the weight of one semi-erect sex scandal. Foley never even got his hand down a page's pants (as far as we know). Clinton's cigar is far more visual, which might explain why right-wing operatives are still able to blame him for everything from 9/11 to teenage vandalism. Of course, the page scandal has the whole gay thing on it, which is really a dealbreaker for the base.
If it was the Democrats that orchestrated the leak, they kept their fingerprints off it pretty good so far. If it was just the regular old liberal-commie press, Fox News has yet to find a good way to spin it in time for the elections, and that's going to be one hard elephant to kill. At any rate, it's good news for Democrats, bad news for gays and Republicans and real bad news for gay Republicans.
The whole thing stinks up the Capitol, but this is Rove's world: we just live in it.
Lack of evidence notwithstanding, the breaking Foley story was suspiciously well-timed and suggested that the Democrats might have finally done some homework, reading from the Karl Rove handbook. The usual Republican accusations of an evil Democrat conspiracy are beside the point when the dirty laundry is hung on the line. The elephant in the room is a sexagenarian (sexygenarian?) U.S Congressman diddling kiddies, and whether it was political sandbagging or not, the elephant is still in the room.
I don't know who's behind the coup, but I would go looking behind Larry Flynt's vault door, as one of the only people on the Left that seems to understand that one sordid controversy is worth a thousand policy prescriptions. The swinging electorate says Democrats don't stand for anything; but now they don't have to do anything but stand there. And get elected. If I were interested in getting elected I would spend most of my time looking for skeletons in the other guy's closet. In Washington, you're sure to find something.
Some may think it's a shame that it took a tawdry tale to turn the tide, when Republicans have done so very much more to deserve getting fired. It seems that no amount of hybris, malfeasance, incompetence, miscalculation, pork-barrel feasting, chronic overspending or failed foreign policy has the weight of one semi-erect sex scandal. Foley never even got his hand down a page's pants (as far as we know). Clinton's cigar is far more visual, which might explain why right-wing operatives are still able to blame him for everything from 9/11 to teenage vandalism. Of course, the page scandal has the whole gay thing on it, which is really a dealbreaker for the base.
If it was the Democrats that orchestrated the leak, they kept their fingerprints off it pretty good so far. If it was just the regular old liberal-commie press, Fox News has yet to find a good way to spin it in time for the elections, and that's going to be one hard elephant to kill. At any rate, it's good news for Democrats, bad news for gays and Republicans and real bad news for gay Republicans.
The whole thing stinks up the Capitol, but this is Rove's world: we just live in it.
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