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America needs a new Congress--the question is, Will Americans hold the GOP to account for their corruption, ineptitude and irresponsibility?
When House Speaker Dennis Hastert and the Republican Congressional leadership convened a press conference on the last Friday of September, their intent was to spin their record before heading off to the campaign trail. Instead, they found themselves answering questions about their deputy whip, Mark Foley of Florida, who had been sending Do-I-make-you-horny instant messages to Capitol pages. Hastert lamely denied the undeniable: that GOP leaders had known of Foley's creepy communications but had done nothing to protect his teenage targets. Calls for Hastert's resignation soon mounted within the GOP ranks, where strategists worried about what the revelations would do to turnout among the Christian-right faithful. Having abandoned common decency to stay in power, Republicans would happily throw their leader overboard if it would serve that cause.
