Don't you hate it when there are no answers?

Foley Scandal Could Cost GOP Control of Congress

# Truthdig says: As badly as this country needs a change in the control of Congress, it would be awful for this to be the impetus. Democrats deserve the opportunity to win in November based on the strength of their ideas and policies—not via the fallout of a tawdry GOP sex scandal. But that’s the hand we’ve all been dealt.

That's what I've been thinking. Not that the Democrats have done much to form a platform this year - seriously, what are they for? What are they against? Where is The Issue(s)? There isn't a great deal of noise from the Democrats - not nearly as much as one might expect.

So the Democrats may take the House and Senate because some perv couldn't keep his sick thoughts (and please, please, let's all hope that's all he did) to himself.

Sex trumps policy. Again.

I hope the Democrats step up to the plate and make good on the opportunity they've gained.


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There are five little girls from Lancaster county, PA, who dead are dead today. Last week a man sexually assaulted some girls and murdered one in Colorado. Is this a pattern or is it too soon to tell? I've never been much of a feminist... but I'm wondering and I'm seeing the same questions sort of questions on many blogs. The deep-seated lack of respect for women in the far right of the radical Christian community is very disturbing. Are those messages starting to seep up through the collective psyche? I know many people look at pornography and x-rated games and say the same thing: disrespectful, down-right dangerous, to woman. Is it part of a pattern?

I don't know. I'm just wondering.

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Go read Professor Cole today:

Informed Comment:

Lies and Cover-Ups are not "Being in Denial" Foleygate, Ricegate and Insurgencygate

The right wing of the Republican Party has a problem with the truth. The American press corps has an addiction to euphemisms.

I don't understand why US reporters and editors won't call a spade a spade.

I don't understand either, Professor.

Woodward has no cred with me after his previous asskissing books on Bush and Company.

Maybe she just forgot about the Clinton plans, the way she "forgot" about the Director of the CIA informing her that his hair was on fire and he was sure that the United States was about to be attacked by al-Qaeda.

The Professor is referring to Miz "I don't recall" Rice.

Didn't that signal the downfall of the Reagan administration?

When everyone lies or covers up the lies, what do you do? What is truth? Where is it? How do you discern fact from fiction?

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Wandering around the web I've noticed bloggers, at Kos as well as other sites, talking about Rove's October Surprise being the invasion of Iran - nothing new there. But they've now got a date: October 21. Supposedly there are nuclear subs headed for the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz. True? Not True?

I don't know.

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NATO is taking over in Afghanistan. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Hopefully it means my sister's friend Rob will be home soon.