10/11/06: I watched the "Daily Show" last night

I forget his name, but one of the southern Republican representatives was being interviewed by Wolf Blitzer and accusing the Democrats of a conspiracy that led to a last second (as far as the election is concerned) release of the Mark Foley emails for political reasons. Wolf kept asking him if he had any evidence of this conspiracy and he kept saying things like "No, but it's something like what they would do." After Stewart finished playing the clip he said something like "So the Congressman would have preferred Mark Foley's behavior to be revealed AFTER the election?"

Whoever had these emails had been trying to get the media to cover it for months and several Republican leaders knew about them for much longer than that which means likely many others knew -- I couldn't tell you why all of the sudden two weeks ago some news organization finally said "Hey, we'll cover this story." The bigger question is why nobody (Republican, Democrat, media, whowever) investigated the allegations when so many people knew the allegations for so long -- possibly 6 years ago. (They also showed Tom Reynolds' "political" commercial in which he apologized to his constituents for not having done more prior to a couple weeks ago. It was freakin' pathetically hilarious -- and probably hurt him even more than he was already hurting -- I've never seen anybody drop in the polls so fast, although I suppose I probably would have if Mark Foley had tried to stay in his race.)

Of course, right now I'm sure the Democrats are asking why Kim couldn't have waited another month to set off his bomb. That might make the race for winning the House tighter than it should be at this point. And I am much more inclined to agree with Bush's stance on this than I was with Iraq -- North Korea and Iran aren't fooling around.

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