Monday's Political Wire
A hug and a kiss and some greenbacks, too
Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut was pilloried by the left wing of his party for the notorious hug and kiss with President Bush. Well, now it sounds as if the left wing will have more grist with which to attack the onetime veep candidate in his race as an independent against Ned Lamont, who won the state's Democratic primary this summer. According to a Robert Novak column and as Political Wire notes, President Bush's college roommate, Tom Kuhn, played host to a Lieberman fundraiser last week in Washington. Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman has refused to support the GOP candidate in the race. How's that for an across-the-aisle smooch?
Did the GOP try to cover up the Foley situation?
The FBI has opened an investigation into besmirched and now resigned Republican Rep. Mark Foley of Florida over the sexually explicit E-mails and Internet messages he sent to congressional pages under the age of 18. As the investigation continues, the political fallout only appears to increase. As Political Wire explains, the question is quickly becoming: Did Republicans try to cover up the situation? And if they did, could the incident spiral into more election-year troubles than just losing the Palm Beach congressional seat? In an election this close, could Foley's troubles mean the difference?
A Terminator once in trouble now no more
California Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, once in dire straits and battling a Democrat-controlled Legislature, now looks to be headed toward a romp. Going green on global warming probably helped a bit. He leads Democratic candidate Phil Angelides by 17 percentage points, 50 percent to 33 percent, as Political Wire highlights . Angelides's message just doesn't seem to resonate with California voters.
advertisement
