Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...House Speaker Dennis Hastert twisted briskly in the hurricane-force winds of the Foley scandal last week, my thoughts turned to Mississippi Senator Trent Lott, the former leader of Senate Republicans. Lott, you may recall, found himself in a similar fix in December 2002, after he offered a rather too enthusiastic toast at Senator Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party, in which he suggested that if Thurmond's segregationist presidential campaign had succeeded in 1948, "we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years." Lott was jettisoned posthaste, with an ample assist from President George W. Bush...
...Hastert, calling the ursine Speaker "a father, teacher, coach who cares about the children of this country." This, despite the fact that Hastert's inability to control the Foley fiasco -both before the Florida Congressman was outed as an antic pursuer of adolescent House pages and after the scandal broke -could well cost the Republicans control of the Congress. Why was the President so eager to dump Lott and protect Hastert? Because George W. Bush prizes loyalty over competence or accountability...
...your life. "Being gay and closeted doesn't guarantee that you'll do things you shouldn't do, but it increases the likelihood that you might," Representative Barney Frank told National Journal last week. "That's what happened when I used a prostitute," he said, referring to a scandal that led to a 1990 House reprimand...
...judge by their handling of the Foley scandal, the Republican leadership in Washington appears to be pinning its hopes for a midterm victory on a tired but true maxim: however bad it looks for us, the Democrats will screw up worse somehow. The spectacle of an ongoing G.O.P. meltdown (for a party not known to be fans of mass transit, they sure do like throwing people under buses) makes it hard to believe that the ruling party can continue its power hold on power. But those who think the results of November's elections are a foregone conclusion would...
...since the Republicans are in charge, it will be the Republicans who will be punished. The scandal involving Mark Foley is, for some voters, the final straw - not as much because of what Foley did but because of how the congressional Republican leadership handled it, or, shall I say, mishandled it. For a party that built so much support from its principle of accountability in government, the utter lack of accountability and the constant blame shifting is stunning. Meet the new boss; same as the old boss...