Posted on 10/10/2006 8:17:05 AM PDT by Dane
A few weeks ago I wrote a column comparing the 1994 election for the U.S. House of Representatives with this year’s election. I concluded the column by pointing out that history rarely repeats itself exactly. How wrong I was.
The current page scandal is an exact re-run of the scandal House Democrats faced in 1994 over the House Bank and the House postal system, except that the parties are reversed. This year it’s the Republicans who are on the ropes and the outcome should be the same…devastating results for the party in power.
Let’s review the bidding.
In 1994, then Speaker Tom Foley, D-Wash., was slow to react to growing scandals surrounding the operations of the House Bank and the House postal system. There were early warnings that things were amiss but it took Foley and the rest of the Democratic Leadership months to respond and by then the entire matter had spun out of control.
There is a common thread running though the 1994 scandal and today’s scandal: both involved matters that were easily understood by the public and both involved negligent behavior by the people in charge
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As I recall at this exact same time in 2002 wasn't the conventional wisdom in the MSM that the Dems were going to clean house?
Here is a great breakdown of the Bias and breakdown of Yesterday's generic ballot polls:
http://www.anklebitingpundits.com
With some help from above, we will gain in each house and be safer for another two years.
If we were to believe in polls, the most recent one showed I think it was 67% said the Foley thing would not effect their vote.
Yeah, that is correct. One must also understand that there was a shift to the GOP because they Democrat party had gotten so leftist and liberal, that people voted GOP. Scandals had only a little to do with it. The issues of that election were the Contract with America vs. gays in the military, raised taxes, Jocelyn Elders, and socialized medicene.
I'm sure the generic polls make the Dems who are trailing in their own individual races feel so much better. /s
You are so right. I had plenty of time over the long weekend to discuss politics at my local pub, a charity fundraiser, and a family gathering, and while my observations are just that, I couldn't find a single person who had decided to change their vote or not vote at all because of the so-called "Foley scandal." Most people I spoke with knew little if anything about the allegations. Several people assumed Foley is a Democrat.
This not to say that the polls are all wrong and the Republicans will keep both houses of Congress. I spoke with several really pissed off registered Republicans who are reluctant to reward the party by voting back into office the very losers who have done absolutely nothing over the last six years on the non-terror/national defense related issues that mean the most, like immigration enforcement, social security reform, school choice, energy exploration/independence, and fiscal irresponsibility. Several people spoke of the "Gingrich revolution" and how we elected Repubicans back in 1994 upon the promise of self-imposed term limits, and how the vast majority of the class of '94 broke that promise and do not deserve our votes. I agree.
The ironic thing is the more the MSM and the Dems bang away with this Foley story the more angry their making conservative voters at them not the GOP.
"Not a dem alive who would get my vote."
Yet many of the dead vote for them.
Yup which is why Bubba had to quickly move to his triangulation strategy.
Right 1035, good point. This disinformation by the MSM is so obvious, the White House really needs to fight back the media citing past fraudulent stories.
I live in a mostly Democratic area. Half of the folks I've spoken to think of Foley as a congressmen not a Republican congressmen. The other half haven't even heard of him.
Or it gives false hope to the ones in even races like the pathetic DEM Chicago Puppet, Tammy Duckworth
Yup. A lot of the folks where I live fall into that exact category. That's why Kerry's "hunting" day before the 2004 election was so comical.
These kind of statements show a fundamental misunderstanding of what happened in 1994 and what this scandal is all about. I can't wait to vote my stright "R" ticket.
Heck the MSM was leaking reports of exit polling predicting a big Kerry win on ELECTION DAY to discourage GOP voters. No doubt they'll do the same thing again this time.
The MSM and their pollsters keep spouting nonsense about all the seats we are to lose.... The funny thing is they can't name the seats. They know if they did we could easily show what idiots they are.
What will they say when Negron wins and keeps Foley's seat?
Folks like that can scream all they want about generic polls but the DNC ain't gonna give them any more money based on them.
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