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I didn’t hear the beginning of the Mark Foley debacle, as I was out of town communing with nature (and my wife, and the kids, and the cat). But I thought it was interesting to see the reactions on this. From the right, there seem to be two schools of thought. One of them is the “why did the Republicans shoot themselves in the foot again? This is typified by commentators such as Captain Ed of Captains Quarters blog, who said: “I cannot tell CQ readers how disgusted I am with Speaker Hastert. Reynolds is no fringe nutcase; he's the...

The GOP should resign itself to the facts Sunday, August 15, 2004 The Democrats are in chaos. The governor is resigning amid a sex scandal that gets more sordid by the day. Meanwhile, they're running the state on borrowed money and also raising taxes at a rate that leads the nation. That brings me to the question that all thoughtful political observers in New Jersey are asking themselves: How will the Republicans screw this up? They'll find a way, that's for sure. On Friday, for example, the GOP leadership held a news conference to demand that James E. McGreevey step...