Our R. Scott Moxley reports that, by the end of the night at the Hyatt Regency Irvine, the older Republicans in the room showed on their faces exactly what they felt: worry, frustration, indignation. But the Young Republican types in their 20s and 30s were not missing a beat--or a drop of hooch--as they had a ball like it was any other chance to party.
By the way, Moxley--who has been covering these GOP monster truck pulls since 1994--would like to readjust his crowd figures. In an earlier post
Remember how congenial the OC GOP gathering at the Hyatt Regency Irvine seemed a few minutes ago?
Fuck that shit.
Election-loss testiness reared its ugly head at 10:20 p.m., our R. Scott Moxley reports from the scene.
As the giant TV screen showing CNN flashed pictures of presumed California winners Arnold Schwarzenegger (governor), Tom McClintock (lieutenant governor) and Steve Poizner (insurance commissioner), Young Republican types yelped with respectful cheers. But they filled the hall wi
So Representative Mark Foley of Florida's 16th Congressional District has resigned. Why? Sexually explicit emails between him and a congressional page who was 16 at the time (August, 2005). Gross? Not only disgusting-gross, but a gross abuse of power. Let me spell it out for you:
H is for homophobia. To associate Foley's crimes with his homosexuality rather than his pedophilia, like Cliff Kincaid, is a form of passive homophobia.
Y is for younger. A 16-year-old page is much younger than 50-yea
Well, it was quite a weekend in Washington D.C. In a previous post, Alex did a fine job of spelling out the facts in the case of ex-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Predator). The only thing that can be added is that Foley has now headed down a familiar path-- as Josh Marshall puts it: "Ahhh, once again, the last refuge of the disgraced House Republican: rehab." Foley's checked himself into rehab for alcoholism, perhaps in preparation for blaming his personal demons on the Demon Rum. (Is it a Church of S
You'd better sit down.
Today Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist suggested that the best way to deal with the increasing Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan ... is to reintegrate the group into the Afghani government.
From the AP via the International Herald-Tribune:
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan guerrilla war can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Taliban and their supporters into the Afghan government.
The Tennessee Republican said he
All this crap on the tele and the funny papers about ex-Florida Congressman Mark Foley has got Clockwork mighty jealous. See, mostly years ago, not so much lately, we often found ourselves completely blotto on the booze. There were times when we said stupid things, did stupid things and spewed stupid things. There was the time we blacked out after a wedding and awoke on a couch in a puddle of re-rendered Kamikaze shots, not remembering climbing in the car, driving home and arriving at our final,
As everyone surely now knows, The Drudge Report has solved the Mark Foley mystery. As you know, Republicans are all about taking responsibility for one's actions. As they demonstrate here, they are indeed taking responsibility--for having an innocent "prank" about pedophilia (nice sense of humor, guys) fall into the hands of evil Democrats (oxymoron?). We just just picture Bill and Hill and Monica, hunched over the computer, copying, pasting and sending Foley's prank out to the masses.
XXXXX DRU
Kevin Naff raises an interesting observation in his New York Blade editorial "Gay Republicans in the Hot Seat":
WITH THE MAINSTREAM media engaged in wall-to-wall Mark Foley scandal coverage for a solid week, attention turned awkwardly (and predictably) to the subject of gay Republicans.
Who are these people? How can they work for a party that demonizes them? Is D.C. controlled by a Velvet Mafia? And, most importantly, what about "The List," a compendium of closeted Republicans that is rumored t
