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...First the obvious stuff: After weeks of pot-banging by President Bush about the future of Western civilization - a campaign designed to divert attention from Iraq and wake his party's disaffected base from its slumber - Foley has given a few key segments of the Republican coalition a jaw-dropping reason to stay home. It's hard to conceive a piece of news more likely to dampen the turnout of social conservatives than predatory sexual practices by a closeted gay Republican leader. I also doubt that the Republican coalition-minders were pleased when Foley blamed his problems on an adolescent...
...months now, U.S. commanders have been planning to take some police brigades "off-line" - bring them into a training base, replace the bad apples and retrain the rest before sending them back into service. But the spiraling violence in and around Baghdad had made it difficult to implement such a program...
...Narratives: the Politics of the Foley Scandal Could it be that the Democrats? ?witch hunt? demand of Republicans has spooked some of their own base? Could the medicine administered to Foley also be applied to certain Democrats in Congress...
...Gets Nervous in Tennessee In the race for the Senate, Harold Ford wasn't supposed to have much appeal outside his home base of Memphis. But now that he is in a virtual dead heat with his Republican opponent, the race is getting down and dirty
...Gets Nervous in Tennessee In the race for the Senate, Harold Ford wasn't supposed to have much appeal outside his home base of Memphis. But now that he is in a virtual dead heat with his Republican opponent, the race is getting down and dirty