God or someone (well, actually the predatory/corrupt/inept Republicans themselves) just gave us the most horrible week Republicans have faced in a long time.
Now it's up to us to leverage this week into victory for the American people.
Republicans are in the water on the verge of drowning. But they haven't drowned yet. And now isn't the time to stand by and watch. Now isn't the time to distract ourselves with other issues.
Now is the time to aggressively and mercilessly throw every Republican candidate in this country one anvil after another, each and every day between now and the election.
Consider what has happened just in the last 7 days:
o A leaked National Intelligence Evaluation produced by all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies revealed that the Iraq War is making America LESS safe.
o Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld have been lying and saying the opposite for 6 months.
o A top member of the House Republican caucus was caught sending X-rated emails and instant messages to multiple minor Congressional pages, possibly a crime.
o At least five Republican leaders, including Speaker Hastert and Majority Leader Boehner, were revealed to have known about this sexual daliance for at least a year, possibly a crime also.
But what do we do now? Oh, we have so much work to do!
1. In general, we need to tattoo every Republican candidate in every race in this country with the stain of these sins.
2. Associating the Republican party with same-sex exploitation of minors will have particular resonance in certain areas.
3. Democratic House members, starting with Nancy Pelosi, need to stand on the floor of the House floor for 5 weeks, if that's what it takes, and constantly demand that the FBI and Justice Department launch an investigation into the Foley/Hastert sex scandal. We need to demand that she do so.
4. Every citizen, editorial page and columnist in this country needs to call for the IMMEDIATE resignation from Congress of Hastert, Boehner, Shimkus and anyone else who hid Foley's sexual crimes against minors. We need to demand that they do so.
5. Every Democratic candidate for public office needs to brand the face of their Republican candidates with these and Republican sins. Citizens in every district, state and other race need to know that Republicans are the party that cares more about their own political hides than about protecting kids and protecting our country. We need to help them do so.
And this is just a start. The point is that there is tons to do, and 5 full weeks to do it -- all day and every day. Let's get to it!