I don’t drink. Many years ago, when I was a little kid, I was once offered the sip of beer I had been clamoring for, and it wasn’t nearly as good as I had imagined it would be. Since then, I’ve never seen the appeal of alcohol, and I’ve counted myself lucky.
Today, someone suggested I ought to start drinking, anyway. That way, if I ever got caught doing something shameful — not that I would ever do anything shameful, heaven forfend — I could just blame it on the booze and check myself into rehab.
The demon rum has provided convenient absolution for countless public figures in recent years, but you can’t swear off the bottle unless you drink. It’s a quandary.
The current consensus seems to be that Republican Mark Foley’s misbehavior, and the Republican leadership’s apparent year-long cover-up might hurt the GOP. Heaven forfend, indeed. So some Republican apologists are going to work — for example, Matt Drudge blames the young pages, not former congressman Foley.
But look on the bright side. The Foley story is everywhere today — all over the news, all over the blogs. And people talking about Foley aren’t talking about Iraq, where at least 70 U.S. troops were killed in September, along with thousands of civilians.
The Foley story is getting another big boost today from things like a call by some conservatives for Dennis Hastert’s resignation.
It sounds like bad news for Republicans, but it sure has changed the subject, hasn’t it?
I’m thinking, “Karl Rove, Suuuper Genius.”
Spink Nogales | 02-Oct-06 at 11:32 pm | Permalink
No. Not this time. The wheels are coming off the Neo-Con Krieglastwagen.