Farah has been unpopular long before this article
After the elections, Hastert and Reynolds should also step down. Of course, the Democrats want to make this an election issue. Farah is right, the current leadership in the GOP is worthless. Frist is leaving, thankfully, but there needs to be a new GOP House leader as well as a new GOP Chairman.
Exactly how are we going to defend ourselves from the agenda of the looney-left Democrats when the Republican party refuses to clean up its own act?
LOL, poor Joe, rational people will not fall for this line of BS.
This statement is about two years too late..
Politicians, like diapers, should be changed often.
And for the same reason.
The ONE E-MAIL they had was just "off-putting", not indicative of the real problem. But yet they acted on it, researched it, took corrective action to the best of their ability given the fact that the e-mail had NOTHING in it that was illegal, immoral, or offensive.
Multiple news outlets had the SAME e-mail, and every one did a little research and decided there was no "there" there to report on.
Within TWO HOURS of the revelation of a truly damning (but not necessarily criminal) e-mail, Foley was GONE GONE GONE, and the republicans were opening up investigations.
If the republicans had taken action last year based on the one e-mail, and it turned out that was all their was, they would have been castigated for being homophobic and insensitive.
I read stories this weekend that almost every page talked to said they liked Foley, and that he was a good, stand-up guy. The IMs in question were from 2003, there's no evidence that Foley sent a SINGLE E-mail that was offensive SINCE he was "counselled".
The democrats are making a deal about some supposed "warning" given to pages about Foley. But the ONE CASE where a page's name was given, that page says there was NO WARNING. And it sounds more like a "watch out, Foley's gay" message, not a "watch out, he wants to sleep with you" message.
I have to think every page is warned about Ted and Mark Kennedy -- to not do so would be criminal.
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The problem with Farah as I see it is this -- HE IS ADVOCATING THROWING THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATH WATER.
Instead of simply advocating the defeat/resignation of Foley, he wants us to now kick the GOP out from Congress !!
In other words he wants us to IGNORE the work of many (in fact, most ) good, hard working, conservative GOP congressmen simply because of one BAD EGG !!
Of course he never asks the question -- WHAT IS THE ALTERNATIVE FOR THIS COUNTRY WHEN THIS HAPPENS ??
Here are some I can think of ( all because he dislikes Foley ) :
1) Gay Marrriage on the agenda.
2) Abadoning Iraq
3) Wasting the next 2 years finding ways to impeach Bush.
4) Raising Taxes ( including the re-instatement of the death tax ).
5) At best, Filibustering Bush's nominees to the courts, and at worst, forcing Bush to nominate someone "acceptable" ( AKA someone like David Souter ) to the Supreme Courts.
JUST TO NAME A FEW....
Apparently, when he says the GOP is unworthy of governing, his unstated assumption is that we should allow an even less worthy party to govern.
What kind of illogic is this ?
Politics isn't about choosing the perfect candidate, it is often about choosing the lesser of two evils. Now Farah seems to be advocating the choosing of the greater evil !
I hope no conservative takes him seriously.