Republicans or Democrats - Can you see any good coming out of the Foley scandal?

Answer 1

Many hope the cause and effect will bring on a new and improved ethics committee for the House. The repubs have enjoyed running the house for 12 years without the wisdom of having an ethics committee. It’s all come back to haunt them now, they would have been better off keeping their house clean. The current three way divide within the right will take several elections to shake out. We are all better off with a functional two party system.

Answer 2

There is a hell of alot of good for this for the republicans. The democrats are foolish in the extreme for focusing on this. Nobody cares. I don't mean that nobody cares about Foley. What I mean is that this issue does not change people's opinions about how they are going to vote even the tiniest bit. There are three issues that do. Immigration, the economy and homeland security (I say homeland security because people really don't give a crap about Iraq anymore). Maybe a fourth issue and that's a nuclear weapons in the hands of North Korea and Iran. The republicans are strong on all of these issues. Although the senate has been a pain in the *** about immigration for a long time and pissing off voters with talks of blanket amnesty, it has passed important legislation designed to limit illegal immigration mostly through republican efforts. This is EXTREMELY popular. Certain key democrats (I say key because they are up for re-election this year) dared to vote against this. BIG MISTAKE. The economy is the best it has been in a long time. The deficit is way down. Gas prices are plummeting. The stock market is booming. The republicans are smiling because it has all happened on their watch. The democrats have been smoking crack on homeland security, opposing anything and everything designed to prevent another 9/11. That issue all by itself is reason to never ever ever give them a chance to make policy ever again. This gets the republican base out to vote for real fears of what crazy **** they might do if they get in and it really influences swing voters against them. Then there is the little issue of North Korea and Iran. The only reason North Korea has nukes is because Clinton gave them two nuclear reactors and then stopped all efforts to make them stop developing nuclear weapons. Do the democrats think people will mysteriously forget what happened? I doubt it. Then there is the little matter of John Kerry getting caught approaching the Iranian Mullahs during the last election. In return for their support he offered to make sure the US does not interfere in their nuclear weapons goals. Once a traitor, always a traitor it seems. Hmmm.

Yeah. The dems should waste all their resources putting the focus on Foley alright. I can understand this since they are so damn weak on the important issues. But, it's only going to hurt them. People are simply scratching their heads going, why the hell do they think I care about that come election time. Meanwhile, the republicans are going to barbecue them alive on the issues. The dems should be working 24/7 to try and protect themselves from this, but, instead, they focus on Foley.

Pass the barbecue sauce.

Answer 3

Maybe the Foley scandal was the final straw that convinced Americans that Republicans and the Bush Administration are truely not interested in them. Maybe Foley's actions showed Americans what all Republicans are like deep down. I don't say that without thought either! It's true, they are some evil Shi t !!

Answer 4

It is very transparent that the Foley scandal; was a tipping edge as to what's really happening in Washington DC. It matters not which political affiliation holds power; we the American people are being screwed. Politicians care more about longevity of their political careers, over serving the wishes of the people. Both the House and Senate worked less than a year; and voted for pay raises, while America was at war, and suffered with many natural disasters. What measures have they taken to provide the American people with satisfaction? Shame on them!

Answer 5

I am neither Repukelican nor Democrap, but I will offer this: the only good to come out of the Foley debacle would be if Congress would get off its collective arses and make ANY CRIME against a Child a Class A felony, with either life in prison or death as punishment. OUr children are our greatest assets, and to throw someone in jail for 15 years to life for Druges, yet let a child rapist free after 10 years, is as retarded as invading a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, or refusing to cite the bombing of the USS Cole as an act of war. Without a third political party, whose only interests are the interests OF ALL AMERICANS, there is no hope in our future.

Answer 6

The only real good has already occured. Foley is gone. The rest is just partisan political posturing. Neither side has shown any real regard for ethics and morals in government. They move from scandal to scandal knowing that each one will all blow over given time.

Answer 7

It's one more nail in the coffin of the Repubs. They have had one scandal after another with Abramoff, DeLay, the outing of a CIA agent and now this. Add to that a horribly conducted war based on a lie, the biggest deficit in history, and an illegal immigration crisis, and you have what is probably the end of the Repubs chances in Nov. Vote Dem and throw the crooks out.

Answer 8

The only good thing I see coming out of it is a giant crack in the "moral majority" facade. People, especially Republicans, tend to put their chosen leaders up on a pedestal. This may help a few to realize that no politician deserves the praise or adoration people love to heap on them.

Answer 9

Goes to show how crap both parties are, how come the gay-friendly, NAMBLA protecting liberal democrats crucifying a gay congressman? He and the 17 year old (at the time, which is still age of consent) could have had a nice happy homosexual future together.

He was republican, what about his decent wholesom man wife morality tale? Where was his religious judgement when he was pursuing homosexual thoughts and actions? He should have stayed in church to be blessed from such evil thoughts.

Answer 10

It would be nice to think that there will be better oversight of the congressional page program after this. But knowing congress, I bet it will be business as usual after this scandal is old news. That's partly why I'm an advocate of voting every incumbent out of office regardless of party affiliation. They, all of them, have done a terrible job and deserve to be fired. We, "the people" are their bosses and it's time we started acting like bosses. If you performed your job like congress has performed theirs, would you still have a job? Vote the bums out of office!!!