OH HAPPY DAYS! "GOP Worries Ethics Issue May Hurt Party in '06"

[BigBearJohn]

WASHINGTON POST

ZANESVILLE, Ohio -- After enlarging their majority in the past two elections, House Republicans have begun to fear that public attention to members' travel and relations with lobbyists will make ethics a potent issue that could cost the party seats in next year's midterm races.

In what Republican strategists call "the DeLay effect," questions plaguing House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) are starting to hurt his fellow party members, who are facing news coverage of their own trips and use of relatives on their campaign payrolls. Liberal interest groups have begun running advertising in districts where Republicans may be in trouble, trying to tie the incumbents to their leaders' troubles.

Among those endangered are at least two committee chairmen and several other senior members.

Another Republican in the Democrats' sights is

Rep. Tom Feeney

(Fla.), who as a state official was an aggressive advocate for Bush during the presidential election recount fight of 2000, and has been a key DeLay supporter. Like DeLay, Feeney accepted a trip to South Korea from a group that later declared itself a foreign agent, which would have made the group ineligible to fund trips for lawmakers. Like DeLay, Feeney traveled to Scotland and played golf, accompanied by Abramoff

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When we take over the House in '06 -- we'll impeach him OURSELVES!!!

[autorank]

1. Wow, that stuns me. Why would they be worried?

Could it be :evilgrin:?

[truth_is_extreme]

2. they shouldn't worry

they have Diebold.

[Bluebear]

3. Notice they don't worry about the actual ethics, just the effect on votes

[BigBearJohn]

4. kick for the morning folks