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Poll: the Fallout From Foleygate

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Posted on Oct 8, 2006

A Newsweek poll has the Democrats favored over Republicans 53% to 35% in the congressional elections while Bush’s approval rating has dropped to 33% in the wake of Foleygate.

(h/t: Think Progress)


Newsweek:

The pace of the news on the Foley scandal is making it difficult for Republicans to stop their slide. On Thursday, House Speaker Dennis Hastert declared that mistakes were made in handling the Foley case and that he would remain in his post to make sure the misdeeds were thoroughly investigated. Almost immediately, ABC News reported that three more former pages had come forward to say that they had received suggestive e-mails and instant messages from Foley. And just as Republicans were attempting to form a united front to paint the timing of the Foley revelations as Democratic dirty tricks-What did Nancy Pelosi know and when did she know it?-the Republicans got a fratricidal shot out of the dark-on Iraq. Virginia Republican Sen. John Warner declared that the United States had 90 days to quell the violence in Iraq, or risk losing the war. To top it off, on Friday an aide to Karl Rove resigned over the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling and corruption scandal.

Meanwhile, the president’s approval rating has fallen to a new all-time low for the Newsweek poll: 33 percent, down from an already anemic 36 percent in August. Only 25 percent of Americans are satisfied with the direction of the country, while 67 percent say they are not. Foley’s disgrace certainly plays a role in Republican unpopularity: 27 percent of registered voters say the scandal and how the Republican leadership in the House handled it makes them less likely to vote for a Republican Congressional candidate; but 65 percent say it won’t make much difference in determining how they vote. And Americans are equally divided over whether or not Speaker Hastert should resign over mishandling the situation (43 percent say he should, but 36 percent say he shouldn’t).

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By joe w mear, October 9, 2006 at 8:38 am #
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Photographer for White House child sex ring arrested after Hunter Thompson suicide

From the article above:
“Cable television news reports have recently linked an alleged male prostitute to the present White House since George W. Bush permitted James Guckert to use an unprecedented Secret Service-approved alias (Jeff Gannon) while having access to the White House for two years as a pool reporter serving the younger Bush--before which Gannon had advertised himself on internet pornography sites as a male “escort” charging $200 an hour. [Gannon is the subject of independent news reports which have referred to him as the former kidnapped Des Moines, Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch--forced into child sex-slavery.] John DeCamp told this writer “I believe Johnny Gosch and Jeff Gannon are one and the same person--but I am not in a position to know positively.” “

“George W. Bush has not explained how Guckert/Gannon--who had advertised himself as a male escort--could apparently operate in the White House as a reporter for two years using a Secret Service-approved alias and regularly be called upon by George W. Bush and press secretary Scott McClellan during nationally televised presidential press conferences.”

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By robert a. davies, October 8, 2006 at 10:30 pm #
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The real slide is that of the United States as,
like Israel,it becomes an aggressive, military and fascist State. Pederasty becomes “gay,” military aggression becomes pre-emptive, freedom becomes prison and torture for some of our citizens. And of course the enemy is “not like us humans.”

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By Jon B, October 8, 2006 at 7:41 pm #
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Senator George Allen of Virginia failed to report options as required by congressional rules. Perhaps Allen’s moneygate is in the making.
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarti cle.asp?Feed=AP&Date=20061008&ID=6085383

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By Jon B, October 8, 2006 at 5:45 pm #
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While they kept talking value, god, jesus, christianity.........the world sees war on false pretense, Abu Ghraid, renditions, indiscriminate bombing aka “shock and awe”, Foleygate, Abramnoff, dollar devaluation......

When sleezy politicians talk about god and jesus, watch out. These immoral, lawless, corrupted and blood thirst lots will take US of A down the sewer.

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By felicity smith, October 8, 2006 at 12:43 pm #
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One would wish the American people, or those polled anyway, would show slightly more upset when the soon-to-be Attorney General of the United States declares that the nature of the war on terror makes existing laws and international agreements irrelevant. (In answer to why Mr. Bush and others can commit war crimes and not be held accountable.) Jan., 2002. 

But alas, that and other alarming revelations scarcely register a blip on polling screens. Foley’s dalliances affect maybe 5 young men, (Hastert’s “cover-up” is politics as usual) and people go ballistic, aided and abetted by a rapacious media of course - whereas, an American president free to commit war crimes affects and effects more than this space can accomodate.

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By yours truly, October 8, 2006 at 11:20 am #
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Just think, one month and the Republican Congress is no more, which means that the impeachment of George Bush moves from the back to the front burner, after which he’ll be on his way to the International Court of Criminal Justice at the Hague, where he’ll go on trial for his crimes against humanity.  Couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy.

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By Atheista, October 8, 2006 at 7:01 am #
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What moral majority?

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