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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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To: SquirrelKing

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?


21 posted on 10/10/2006 8:41:20 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: mainepatsfan

Here is a great breakdown of the Bias and breakdown of Yesterday's generic ballot polls:

http://www.anklebitingpundits.com


22 posted on 10/10/2006 8:43:05 AM PDT by Welike ike
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To: SquirrelKing
Thanks to Tom DeLay we are well positioned to keep the house and the senate.

With some help from above, we will gain in each house and be safer for another two years.

23 posted on 10/10/2006 8:43:09 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

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.


24 posted on 10/10/2006 8:44:31 AM PDT by 1035rep
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To: mainepatsfan

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.


25 posted on 10/10/2006 8:44:41 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Welike ike

I'm sure the generic polls make the Dems who are trailing in their own individual races feel so much better. /s


26 posted on 10/10/2006 8:45:45 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: wolfpat
This whole Foley thing is such a non-issue.

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.

27 posted on 10/10/2006 8:46:06 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: OldFriend

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.


28 posted on 10/10/2006 8:49:50 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: mainepatsfan
"Hell Bubba said the same thing about their loss in 2000."

The only time that turd told the truth!

When the RATS went on their anti-gun rampage they lost about 25% of their base, and those that they lost know what is waiting in the wings if they get control again.

Blue collar average Joe used to make up the majority of the RAT party, who is the largest gun owning group in America?

Of course its blue collar average Joe!

Joe may buy into the Union crap all week at work, but on the weekend he goes hunting/fishing/shooting etc., tell them your goal is to end that and they will leave and never come back!
29 posted on 10/10/2006 8:50:00 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Demonrats want the Gays out of Congress.....stand back and let them purge their base.)
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To: OldFriend

"Not a dem alive who would get my vote."

Yet many of the dead vote for them.


30 posted on 10/10/2006 8:50:24 AM PDT by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: KC_Conspirator

Yup which is why Bubba had to quickly move to his triangulation strategy.


31 posted on 10/10/2006 8:51:43 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: 1035rep

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.


32 posted on 10/10/2006 8:51:58 AM PDT by Welike ike
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To: Labyrinthos

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.


33 posted on 10/10/2006 8:53:36 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: mainepatsfan

Or it gives false hope to the ones in even races like the pathetic DEM Chicago Puppet, Tammy Duckworth


34 posted on 10/10/2006 8:53:57 AM PDT by Welike ike
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To: Beagle8U

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.


35 posted on 10/10/2006 8:54:55 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: Dane

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.


36 posted on 10/10/2006 8:55:50 AM PDT by ShandaLear (So there!)
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To: Welike ike

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.


37 posted on 10/10/2006 8:57:11 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: Welike ike

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.


38 posted on 10/10/2006 8:57:38 AM PDT by 1035rep
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To: 1035rep

What will they say when Negron wins and keeps Foley's seat?


39 posted on 10/10/2006 8:59:56 AM PDT by petercooper (If President Bush lied us into war, why didn't he plant the WMD's?)
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To: Welike ike

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.


40 posted on 10/10/2006 9:01:27 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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