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With Foley Scandal, GOP Faces Fate of 1994 Democrats(Marty Frost alert)
Fox News ^ | October 9, 2006 | Martin Frost

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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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2006election; election; foley; foxnews; martinfrost; pelosi
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Marty doing his bitter best as nancy pelosi's mole at Fox News, to suppress GOP/Conservative turnout.

JMO marty, Nov. 8th is going to be a bitter diasppointment for you.

1 posted on 10/10/2006 8:17:06 AM PDT by Dane
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To: Dane

I believe in 1994 there were over 100 House seats "in play". Toady that number has dropped to maybe just over a dozen due to gerrymandering.


2 posted on 10/10/2006 8:19:27 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: Dane
The deconstruction of all the recent polls shows a far different story than the headlines. I believe I heard that 66% of those polled are quite satisfied with their own congressman.

All the discontent is generic with no specifics at all.

Of course, that did not stop the media from misrepresenting the polls. The agenda first, you know.

3 posted on 10/10/2006 8:19:30 AM PDT by OldFriend (Should we wait for them to come and kill us again? President Karzai 9/26/06)
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To: Dane
This whole Foley thing is such a non-issue. When the democRATS get caught doing things like this, they're celebrated. When Republicans get caught doing this, they're run out of town on a rail. That's what we've always done. What's the problem?
4 posted on 10/10/2006 8:19:42 AM PDT by wolfpat (To connect the dots, you have to collect the dots.)
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To: Dane

FOAD Frost, you bitter and hypocritical DemoCrite turd. You covered up for Bill Clinton actually doing an intern, not just engaging in dirty talk. So spare us your smug and laughable pretense of moral superiority you puke. You people defended a rapist in Bill Clinton and a pedophile pervery in Gerry Studds. If Americans are stupid enough to put you hypocrites back into control of congress over what one congressmen did, then they deserve the wrecked economy and the emboldened Al Qaeda they'll get. But personally I think Americans are smarter than that and see through this double standard and rank hypocrisy you Dems. are flatulating over Foley.


5 posted on 10/10/2006 8:21:36 AM PDT by MikeA (Foley has resigned. Bin Laden has not. That is what 's at stake in this election, not some pervert.)
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To: OldFriend

Heck I'll bet on election day 2004 Bush would have lost to a generic Democrat. He just wasn't going to lose to the specific one on the ballot namely Kerry.


6 posted on 10/10/2006 8:22:10 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: Dane
If the Democrats offered a rational alternative of substantive programs or even a coherent ideology, they'd destroy the Pubs al la 1994.

They cannot possibly win big by simply trying to score on turnovers.

7 posted on 10/10/2006 8:22:39 AM PDT by zarf
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To: Dane

8 posted on 10/10/2006 8:23:37 AM PDT by Mo1 (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC - BECOME A MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: wolfpat

By their logic the GOP should have cleaned house in 1998.


9 posted on 10/10/2006 8:24:12 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: Dane

Again, the Dems don't care about Foley's behavior itself. They celebrate deviancy. Just look at the title and you'll see what they're after -- "Foley SCANDAL."

All they want is the words Republican and Scandal on every news program.


10 posted on 10/10/2006 8:25:19 AM PDT by Disturbin (Get back to work -- millions of people on welfare are counting on you!)
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To: Dane
The October Surprise in 2004 was the "unguarded ammo dump in Iraq" story which CBS and the New York Times teamed up on in coordination with the Kerry camp and a corrupt UN official. In 2000 it was the Bush DUI arrest from the 1970's leaked by some po-dunk newspaper in Maine and repeated over and over. Yet, members of the news media, when confronted, insist their news products are unbiased.
11 posted on 10/10/2006 8:27:48 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
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To: Dane
Before the RATS needed to spin 1994 into being relevant to Republicans today, they admitted that it was GUN-CONTROL that caused them to lose in 1994!
12 posted on 10/10/2006 8:33:03 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Demonrats want the Gays out of Congress.....stand back and let them purge their base.)
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To: mainepatsfan

Not a dem alive who would get my vote.


13 posted on 10/10/2006 8:33:37 AM PDT by OldFriend (Should we wait for them to come and kill us again? President Karzai 9/26/06)
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To: zarf

Good point... I've heard this "it's going to be like 1994 was for the Democrats... they had the house banking scandal and that killed them." These commentators conveniently forget the GOP's Contract With America and how that fired up that fall's election. The Mainstream Media ignored the contract back then -- and continues to ignore the lessons learned. I'm sure Nancy Pelosi has a detailed plan that she's going to release anytime soon...


14 posted on 10/10/2006 8:34:54 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds
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To: All

Boy, do I ever miss Tom DeLay!!!!!


15 posted on 10/10/2006 8:35:33 AM PDT by cousair
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To: Beagle8U

Hell Bubba said the same thing about their loss in 2000.


16 posted on 10/10/2006 8:37:05 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

Yup. They couldn't just accept the fact that the voters had voted for something they opposed.


17 posted on 10/10/2006 8:38:10 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: OldFriend

This whole thing will come down to turnout and they know it.


18 posted on 10/10/2006 8:39:01 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: mainepatsfan
I believe in 1994 there were over 100 House seats "in play". Toady that number has dropped to maybe just over a dozen due to gerrymandering.

That, and 1994 was more of a "throw the bums in" than "throw the bums out". Newt and the boys had a PLAN. Something the Dems don't and never will have.

I feel better about this day already. Bring it.

19 posted on 10/10/2006 8:39:31 AM PDT by SquirrelKing
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To: Dane
Apples and oranges.

in 1994 you had close to a hundred seats in play, and the scandal involved dozens of house members, none of whom recieved any real punishment.

In 2006 you have maybe 10-30 seats in play, and a scandal that involves on pervert who has been unmasked and forced out of office.

Totally different political landscape, totally different scope of scandal, and totally different reaction of house leadership to scandal ---- and no amount of DIMBULB wishful thinking is going to change that.

20 posted on 10/10/2006 8:39:38 AM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to protect it.)
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