Foley scandal clouds remaining Bush term
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The final two years of President Bush's term could be bleak for Republicans if the congressional-page scandal roiling Washington ends up costing them control of the House or Senate or even both.
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President Bush has called House Speaker Dennis Hastert, under fire for his handling of the Mark Foley scandal, and "expressed his support," White House Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino said. On Thursday, Hastert, R-Illinois, said he had "done nothing wrong" and would not step down over the controversy surrounding Foley.
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Republican presidential candidates can't be any more clear: President Bush isn't welcome on the campaign trail.
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With a week to go until the election, Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry accused President Bush yesterday of hiding embarrassments in Iraq
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After controlling both houses of Congress for most of President Bush's time in office, the GOP's governing record has dismayed those who fantasized about what Newt Gingrich and his band of rebels might accomplish. The current crisis arrived with a sex scandal that muddied one of the GOP's few remaining patches of moral high ground. And if Republicans worried it would hurt their chances of keeping the House, they were right.
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Republicans are scrambling to contain the damage of two separate political headaches that share a common theme &#151; accusations that the GOP is hiding the truth.
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An increasing number of conservative advocates are laying the blame for the intensifying Foley scandal at the feet of the House speaker.
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For President Bush, the back-to-back resignations of two longtime aides amount to a political housecleaning for his last months in office.
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Considered a long shot just two days ago to unseat a prominent House Republican, Democrat Tim Mahoney on Saturday began to talk about the scandal surrounding Rep. Mark Foley that may propel him to Congress.
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President Bush has a long list of promises to keep, and even with an expanded Republican majority in Congress, it's unlikely he can have them all.
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Aided by public revulsion over an Internet-age sex scandal, Democrats enter the final month of the campaign well-positioned to challenge for control of Congress, while Republicans increasingly express concern about holding onto power.
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House Republicans are grappling with political fallout from a lurid scandal and the way leaders dealt with Mark Foley and the now-former congressmanÃ¢ÂÂs salacious electronic messages to teen-age congressional pages.
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Nearly all the senior officials who came to office with President Bush still are on the job. But a big exodus and a Cabinet reshuffling seem likely if he wins a second term.
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House Majority Leader Tom DeLay should not be untouchable. The powerful Texas Republican has wiggled out of ethics investigations before, but not this time.
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With the resignation of key staffers and cash reserves dwindling, the Republican hopeful tries to keep his campaign from imploding
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If the left is to have any hope of undermining President Bushâs second term, it must continue its previous efforts to destroy the reputation of every worthwhile conservative in his cabinet.
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Negative assessments of the war in Iraq -- the central issue in last month's midterm election -- continue to hold down President Bush's job approval ratings and could cast an pall on the final two years of his presidency.