Analysis:GOP Woes Don't End With DeLay GREAT article! I'm LOVIN' THIS!

[in_cog_ni_to]

Analysis: GOP Woes Don't End With DeLay
By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
2 hours ago

WASHINGTON - Republicans worried about their party's future have succeeded in pushing embattled former Majority Leader Tom DeLay off the stage. Even so, the Republicans' election-year troubles are far from over.

Need a reminder?

President Bush, the titular head of the GOP, is waging an unpopular war in Iraq and presiding over a nation with lingering economic anxieties. He suffers from approval ratings around 40 percent _ near record lows for his presidency. Questionable stock transactions by the top Republican in the Senate, Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, are under investigation. A special prosecutor's probe continues into whether Bush administration officials outed a CIA operative in retribution for her husband's Iraq war criticism. A secret anti-terror program that Bush approved to eavesdrop on people inside the United States without warrants is raising concerns about overly broad presidential powers.

Potentially most damaging is an influence-peddling scandal on Capitol Hill.

Last week's guilty pleas to corruption and tax evasion charges by the central figure in the scandal, disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, are anything but the last chapter. Abramoff is cooperating in a wide-ranging investigation that could ensnare dozens of lawmakers with close ties to the generous and powerful lobbyist, including DeLay and House Administration Committee Chairman Bob Ney, R-Ohio.
<snip>

http://www.comcast.net/news/politics/index.jsp?cat=POLITICS&fn=/2006/01/07/299102.html

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. REALLY! This is a GREAT article! Would I lie to you?

;)

:kick: the lead balloon!

[amitten]

4. I know, I know.

I was diggin' it quietly!

[ClassWarrior]

2. Looks like a GREAT article! I'm SAVIN' THIS!

:hi: in_cog!

NGU.

[burythehatchet]

3. its an OK article

this quote, "outed a CIA operative in retribution for her husband's Iraq war criticism", is the same nonsense that continues to be put out.

[Straight Shooter]

5. In all fairness ...

It isn't the truth of why she was outed, but it sure makes the perpetrators look small and petty. When the tables are turned, the truth will be revealed. (We hope.) You have to get sleepwalking Americans to understand that they are being fed small lies before they can grasp that they have been fed big lies also.

[Sydnie]

6. I like that last paragrah

Though House Speaker Dennis Hastert's position seems secure, some are calling for a wider leadership shake up that would be messy and distracting. "The conference needs the ability to reassess the leadership team as a whole," said Rep. Melissa Hart, R-Pa.

That week in January going to be an interesting week for blivet**.