Ken Mehlman: Foley scandal is so yesterday

[sabra]

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2006/10/gop_official_fo.html#more

Ken Mehlman, after a rally with David McSweeney and Peter Roskam in front of about 100 Republican supporters at the “Illinois Victory Center”-the GOP’s election headquarters in an office center in northwest suburban Rolling Meadows. He was asked if the Foley scandal continues to be a drag on his party.

“I believe that what the scandal did was two things. First of all, for about a month, I think we had a good wind behind our backs in discussing the choice in the war on terror and it certainly slowed that down two weeks ago and the week after that and it had an impact in certain districts.”

However, if you look at the polling in the Illinois 6th and 8th congressional districts, he said, he doesn’t believe that there was an impact there.

“I think that the Speaker did the right thing, which was to say, the moment he found out about this, he gave Foley the political death penalty, as aggressive as he could have been: leave Congress. He also brought in the most aggressive investigators he could: the FBI and the Department of Justice. And so I think that most people who look at it will say, ‘I think he was right to give the guy the political death penalty’ and I think most races are coming down to who is on the ballot.”

[babylonsister]

1. Horse feathers.

"the moment he found out about this, he gave Foley the political death penalty, as aggressive as he could have been: leave Congress"
Foley resigned well before Hastert uttered a word. Mehlman is a lyin' liar.

[rodeodance]

2. hey ken-----YOU WISH!

[Hav]

3. .

Wow, it's amazing how they can lie like that with a straight face. I wonder whether they believe their bullshit.

[Gabi Hayes]

7. what's TRULY amazing is that he can go on TV over and over and

NEVER be confronted on this, and several other blatant lies he's been telling, another of which concerns his denial of ANY connections with Abramoff, even though there are emails describing him as a ROCK STAR, getting things like jails built on Indian reservations

for some reason, though, he's total teflon when he goes on camera

when is fricking McAuliffe going to hit him with the laundry list of BS he's been shoveling? I'm sick unto death of this creep getting away with lying his ass off every times he opens his mouth, and NEVER getting called on it

[CarbonDate]

9. Um... McAuliffe?

Terry McAuliffe isn't the Dem party chair, anymore. Howard Dean is. Did you mean Dean?

[Gabi Hayes]

10. ummm, sad, but true: Dean refuses to go on against Mehlman. TMA is

taking his place

there's at least one thread on this at GD Politics

[Gabi Hayes]

13. here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2895114&mesg_id=2895114

[Hav]

12. .

I can't see American TV but I assume that except a few standing out, the good old and once respected American journalism is dead.

[Lerkfish]

4. I have a dream: that one day every republican who blatantly lies like that

would have their tongues jump out of their mouths and run away.

:)

[Straight Shooter]

11. I have a dream, too.

That all those tongues run over a cliff, fall into the ocean and drift away, to be eaten by a giant shark.

Heh.

[Richard Steele]

5. It's the "Repub COVERUP of Foley" scandal that's just getting started!

Sucks to be you, Ken!

[Initech]

6. Typical response - move along, nothing to see here!

They're getting to be more and more like Officer Barbrady from South Park every day!

[Mr_Spock]

8. & tomorrow

:evil:

[Kurovski]

14. I agree. Let's investigate Mehlman now.

And George Bush. (ambassadors to Poland, etc):evilgrin:

[eleny]

15. So is your sphincter muscle, Ken

[AIJ Alom]

16. I'm going to agree with Mehlman on this one. The page scandal should be

replaced with the sex slave scandal involving Mehlman and Abramhoff clients that led to the firing of a White House official trying to prevent sex slavery.

[warrens]

17. Denny is going to be in the news all over Illinois til the election

And not in a good way.

[Supersedeas]

18. the moment he found out about this, he gave Foley the political death

penalty: that factually is NO SO

[bridgit]

19. Ken Mehlman = so yesterday, but his orange jump suit will have a timeless

quality to it when you see him picking up trash on the shoulder of the freeway :thumbsup:

[mitchum]

20. Here's hoping Ken suffers the same fate as his forebear Roy Cohn...

and soon

[Critters2]

21. But, from what I hear, the Weller scandal is tomorrow!! nt

[Crunchy Frog]

22. How much time was spent on the Monica "scandal"

just for the sake of comparison? Also, it wasn't the moment the Speaker "found out", it was the moment that he realized other people had found out.

[Cha]

23. Then why does foley try to keep

it in the limelight by identifying an old priest in Italy as his sexual mentor?

Just because you say it's "so yesterday" does not mean a whole lot..we say when it's over.

[zbdent]

24. "It's SOOOOO YESTERDAY ... now, let's watch Gennifer Flowers

talk about Bill Clinton ..."

[spanone]

25. I See It More As The Gift That Keeps On Giving.