Does anyone else think that John Boehner, at least in part, engineered the ouster of Dennis Hastert from the speakership following the Mark Foley page scandal?

Was a chain of evidence ever established from Mark Foley to Scott Palmer, Hastert's Chief of Staff?

The events I saw in the fall of 2006 following that scandal always struck me as a political coup d'etat within the Republican leadership.

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The outlook wasn't brilliant, for the GOP on election day
The polls showed loss of Congress, what with Iraq, and Foley gay
And when Allen got "Macaca'd," and Santorum blew PA
Republicans were so desperate, they fell on their knees to pray

Evangelicals were staying home, suffering loss of faith
But some hoped for worldly wonder, beyond the current eighth
They thought, "If Dubya could just jawbone, of terror and tax cuts"
We'd put up even money now, that we won't take it up the butts

But Cheney preceded Dubya, as did also SECDEF Rummy
And the former was a war criminal, while the latter was a dummy
So upon that stricken multitude, with all their campaign cash
There seemed but little chance of Dubya, getting to talk his trash

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All over the news is Ted Haggard, the (now former) leader of the influential National Association of Evangelicals, being caught paying for a male prostitute. Wow, those Republicans sure are a racy bunch! My favorite part is that the male prostitute is 49 years old! How sweet!

It sucks to be a fundamentalist christian right now...

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Florida Democrats may think that the Foley Scandal has given them one more opportunity to gain a seat in Congress but the Democratic candidate there may be something of a Trojan Horse.

The October 6, 2006 Wall Street Journal described candidate Time Mahoney as a moderate liberal, a gun owner who sees Ronald Reagan as a 'political hero'. He says he is a conservative Christian. Positions actually to the right of some Republicans. Most curious though is his campaign manager Charles Halloran. The Village Voice wrote about Halloran in 2003 saying that he worked on New York Democrat Rev. Al Sharpton's campaign and did so at the bidding of Roger Stone, a Republican activist also described as a Republican trickster. Halloran reportedly has worked on other campaigns for Stone and uses Stone's Central Park address when in New York. Then there is the employer of Mr. Halloran's wife. According to an article in the February 2004 L.A. Weekly.com she has worked for the Carlyle Group, a military-industrial-complex corporation whose alumni include George H.W. Bush, Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan and a slew of others very much involved with the Bush administration agenda in the middle east.

Mr. Mahoney's `attributes' as reported in the Wall Street Journal and the credentials and relationships of his campaign manager urges the question of who is really behind the Mahoney campaign and consequently how will he vote if elected?

Village Voice Link December 21, 2004 Wayne Barrett
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0451,barrett,59421,5.html

LA Weekly.com Link February 19, 2004 Doug Ireland
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/a-prayer-for-rev-al/1974/

Wall Street Journal Link October 6, 2006 Yochi J Dreasen
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116009561443584466-XzwMIxzTVk_GteFJzejKpHxVqGs_20071006.html?mod=blogs

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