Eric Hananoki
Oct 5, 05:14 PM
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Internal Memo: Hastert Would Wreck GOP Electoral Chances
From FOX News, Republicans on the Hill are worried that if Hastert stays, their chances to keep control of Congress goes:
House Republican candidates will suffer massive losses if House Speaker Dennis Hastert remains speaker until Election Day, according to internal polling data from a prominent GOP pollster, FOX News has learned.
“The data suggests Americans have bailed on the speaker,” a Republican source briefed on the polling data told FOX News. “And the difference could be between a 20-seat loss and 50-seat loss.” [...] The GOP source told FOX News that the internal data had not been widely shared among Republican leaders, but as awareness of it spreads calculations about Hastert’s tenure may change.
Even if Hastert does go, one noted elections analyst notes that much of the damage may have already been done for the GOP.
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While the latest Time Magazine cover story feels good, I don’t know whether to gloat or cry. I would like to believe that the Republicans were simply so power-mad and bungling that they walked into the Iraq war believing what they wanted to believe, and stupidly damaged our national security in the process. But I fear that it is not so simple that the Republicans are as dumb as they look. Because if I stop to credit them with being smart, then the real scandal is that they are achieving exactly what they wanted: to grab the money and run. If they are smart, then they know that they are lining the pockets of their political contributors in munitions, oil, and battlefield support, at unprecedented levels, while sacrificing American boys to horrible injuries. Bush’s fortune is in Oil and Cheney’s fortune is in Government Contracts. Can moral corruption be avoided? Even if they are thrown out of office TWO years from now, the amount of money their cronies will have already made on the war and the price of oil in this century, will keep them in the power elite until the next century. They only have to know how to wisely invest, and plunder again when they get their chance.
— eric larsson Oct 7, 10:34 AM #
