Guardian: Email sex scandal puts Republican majority at risk

[Say_What]

Nothing but good news... :bounce:


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The Republican leadership was struggling yesterday to stop a scandal over a Florida congressman's sexually charged email exchanges with teenage congressional assistants spiralling into an election debacle, amid growing pressure for the House Speaker to stand down.

With five weeks to go until the midterm elections, Republican strategists believe they must repudiate a party leadership that failed to act forcefully against the congressman - or risk losing control of the House of Representatives.

Polls yesterday showed the scandal taking a heavy toll on Republican electoral prospects, with one survey putting the Democrats within striking distance of taking control of the House.

...The drip-feed of revelations - and the daily leak of new sexually explicit email exchanges between Mr Foley and male teenagers - has intensified the pressure on Republicans to demonstrate a more emphatic response to the scandal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1887797,00.html

[leQ]

1. "with one survey" ??? every survey i've seen says so. (nt)

[wake.up.america]

2. Pretty disgusting behaviour on part of the House Republicans...

but why did it take this to wake some people up to the realization that the GOP thugs are a bunch of sleaze balls.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Read the last two paras.

On Tuesday night ABC, which first broke the story of Mr Foley's behaviour, reported that the congressman was having internet sex with a teenage male in 2003 as the House was preparing to vote on extra funds for the Iraq war.

"I better go vote ... did you know you would have this effect on me," Mr Foley writes in the transcript of the instant message exchange. The teenager replies: "Ya go vote ... I don't want to keep you from doing your job." Mr Foley then asks for a kiss goodnight.

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[allisonthegreat]

4. i would hope that even without this scandal

That democrats would have taken back Congress on Bushie's record alone.:kick: