WARNING
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I have it on some authority from Washington D.C. (a source I trust personally however I do not know how "good" the information is) that the page scandal is about to take another turn for the worse. Not just on the Republican side, but the Democrat side as well. If the information (which amounts to little more than nonspecific insider gossip) I have received is true, we're going to see more stories breaking about House pages all throughout the next week and certainly the public is going to be reading about them on the front pages of major newspapers all the way through election day. My source tells me that this is not behind us yet, by any stretch.
I would treat this information as a rumor at this point. But I hope the people in the House who are currently dealing with the scandal are on top of it. Normally I do not traffic in rumours, but this is what I've heard. Let's hope it isn't so.
Update: Here are some excerpts of the relevant IM chats that were sent to me today:
IMPARTICIPANT: there are more and you will hear about dems with young girls its goiing to break this weekend
me: Great.
IMPARTICIPANT: as i said before, its going to get so awful
me: Just what the country needs.
IMPARTICIPANT: which is why i got fricken plastered last night
me: Well, we've become the Sleaze Society, so I guess we're all wallowing in it.
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IMPARTICIPANT: but i will also tell you one conclusion i have made. dems didnt sit on this, ABC did.
me: Someone sat on it. And frankly Hastert sat on it. Or at least he didn't do enough. It makes me sick.
IMPARTICIPANT: the media held it until it became very valuable to use it, but the republican leadership has really done snothing about it for years
me: I really wish I could have broken the story on RedState a year ago.
IMPARTICIPANT: not that the dems arent licking their hands.
me: Sure it would have been terrible then, but it would have been A YEAR AGO.
IMPARTICIPANT: well, hell, it could have been broken three years ago
me: I wish I had been apprised of the Foley situation somehow a year ago. I would have immediately started asking questions.
IMPARTICIPANT: well, just hold on tight, cause its going to get so much worse
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IMPARTICIPANT: yeah well get the word out that this is all about to get eighty times worse, yall need to figure out what you are going to do preemtively so you dont get caught off guard but you cant stick your head in thesand.....and tow the line or you are f****d
me: Well, I'm relying on our leadership to try to figure out what to do next.
I take all this with a grain of salt. A big grain. And I don't want to make things worse by feeding the rumor fire. But this is what I have heard today in an off-the-record conversation. So that's my heads up, folks. The participant in this discussion with me works in Washington. I do not know how good the sources behind this information are. For all I know, it could be a couple of dudes in a Georgetown bar trying to get people to jump. But I put it out there because this is what I have heard.
So let's say you are hearing a rumble of a new freight train loaded with a new cargo of sleaze, for both parties.
What's going to be the effect on the electorate?
I'd think if this breaks the way you seem to be hearing; both parties are the homes of people who are creeps, and the political class is out of touch with real Americans gets reinforced in the public's mind.
Who looses, or who looses in greater numbers?
Sorry to say, that builds an anti-incumbent swell from merely a small swell to a Tsunami of "Throw the Bums out" sentiment.
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If the appearance of scandal goes from just a Republican problem to a problem for both parties, a lot of the mushy middle will probably not bother to vote at all.
Then it turns into seeing who can mobilize their base better-- something the Republicans have been working on doing better longer than the Democrats. This kind of fight we can win.
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The "this was just a prank" and "over 18 when the IMs started" headlines were rumors that turned out to be wrong. I'd like to hope these are too.
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I'll be looking forward to reading reports of sleaze without Party affiliation (democrat for sure).
Unbalanced coverage on one candidate (the republican)
Flat out denials, saying that the GOP is just trying to distract from their scandals.
and the inevitable
"It was a misunderstanding... Small lapse in judgement... innocent mistake... she's a filthy trailer trash whore." multipronged DNC/MSM coordinated attack machinations.
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That if anyone including the FBI would like to see the records of my emails or my instant message conversations, I'd be happy to provide them. I have absolutely nothing to hide. I sit here in Massachusetts and in a sense I'm just listening. I have absolutely nothing substantive beyond this conversation, but I thought it was extraordinarily interesting, for both parties in our government right now. It seems like things are getting awfully bloodthirsty and perhaps it's the better part of wisdom on both sides to think of a way to concentrate on the real issues going into this election. Just my $0.02.
or more since 72 hours after our troops entered Baghdad and were pronounced in a quagmire by the DEM's press faction called the MSM, will attack us every week to 10 days from now until Election day.
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It's one thing to have congressman engaged in inappropriate speech or conduct with pages and others under their supervision. That's limited to the individual.
It's a whole other thing for leadership to be apprised of such behavior and not take appropriate action in response.
mostly because I can't help but think there wasn't just one man in all of congress coming on to pages and former pages.
I also suspected that when Foley broke, their were probably tons of little dirt gatherers from both sides of the aisle looking for more dirt along a similar vein.
On top of that, with this scandal breaking, I can imagine that those Pages who have remained silent, because they didn't want to be the only one complaining, may feel comfort in the numbers to come forward, even if it is a different congress member.
As for what happens now, I have long believed that this year would be the year of the apathetic voter, and if the scandal moves to both sides of the aisle, it will even more turn into this. People who think their voting for two equally corrupt people, aren't going to bother.
So mobilization and base turn out will be the key to this election, I thought so before the scandal, and I think so even more so now.
Although, my question is why is it going to take until Monday?
I think the scandal will heat up as both sides look to throw out long held surprises. The result might not be so much an anti-dem or anti-GOP so much as an anti-incumbant (which burns us more than them). I don't have a source at all for this, just a gut feeling.
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