The GOP is All out of spin-
The GOP is reduced to "would have, could have, should have" as their
'answer' to concerns that they failed the public trust in the Foley
affair.
These boys are toast.
Eugene Robinson - No Spinning Past This Scandal - wa****ngtonpost.com
Even when damage control seems a lost cause, I suppose you have to
follow
the playbook. So Mark Foley resigns his House seat in a nanosecond, then
explains those creepy electronic messages to young congressional pages by
declaring himself an alcoholic, effectively blaming it all on demon rum.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert promptly calls for a really thorough --
meaning
really slow -- investigation. The rest of the Republican leader****p
declares
itself shocked and/or saddened, but agrees that the time has come to move
on, folks, nothing to see here.
These practiced responses have long served politicians, but you don't
get
the sense that anyone thinks they'll work this time. There's really no
effective spin you can put on the Foley scandal, no way that even the
Republican Party's image-making geniuses can make people feel good about a
52-year-old man discussing masturbatory techniques with a male teenager
via
instant message.
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/02/AR2006100200937.html
The elephant fell off a cliff and died.
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