Elephants In Retreat as Time Shows Elephant's Rear on Cover

Posted on October 9, 2006

The Bob Woodward book and Foleygate now have the Republicans is full retreat mode, just 30 days out from the midterm elections. Time Magazine says it all with its new cover which shows the hind end of an elephant walking away from the reader with the words "What A Mess" written as a sort of epitaph.

The cover story is entitled "The End of a Revolution: Sex, lies and power games are just the latest symptoms of a Republican Party that has strayed from its ideals," which just about says it all.

Sick, sick, sick is what the polls are showing that American soccer moms think of Foley's disgusting behavior and the equally disgusting behavior of the House Republican leadership who allowed a sexual predator to stalk 16 year-olds for five years with no consequences.

A Time magazine poll shows that 80% of Americans are aware of the Foley scandal and that two-thirds of them believed that Republican leaders are participating in a cover up. The poll also shows President Bush's approval rating at 36%. But Newsweek has even worse news for the White House:

The president's approval rating has fallen to a new all-time low for the Newsweek poll: 33 percent, down from an already anemic 36 percent in August. Only 25 percent of Americans are satisfied with the direction of the country, while 67 percent say they are not.

Leaving Hastert in power is a political gamble which is doomed to failure. Hastert coached high school boys' wrestling and has campaigned to stop cyber-predators from using the Internet to prey on children. He absolutely knows what it means when a 52 year-old man asks a boy to "send him a picture." And parents aren't stupid: they also knows what it means when the Speaker of the House of Representatives covers up the actions of a pedophile: it's time for a new Speaker.