{"id":8670,"date":"2006-10-05T15:14:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T19:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8670.html"},"modified":"2006-10-05T15:14:25","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T19:14:25","slug":"waiting-for-the-next-shoe-to-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/waiting-for-the-next-shoe-to-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for the next shoe to drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard a surprising number of rumors today about &#8220;the next shoe to drop,&#8221; which in some ways, makes all of today&#8217;s updates, from Dennis Hastert and others, preliminary. If Mark Foley wasn&#8217;t the only one, this mess could, believe it or not, get considerably worse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/americas\/article1799448.ece\">Consider<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the scandal over former congressman Mark Foley entered its sixth day, one Republican warned that there may even be further disclosures involving other politicians. &#8220;People are very, very concerned,&#8221; said Representative Ray LaHood, an Illinois Republican. &#8220;They think there are going to be more disclosures.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hastert reportedly wants to seize control of this situation and go on the offensive. It&#8217;s highly debatable whether that will work. But if even one more GOP lawmaker is exposed as having any kind of relations with a page, all bets are off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard a surprising number of rumors today about &#8220;the next shoe to drop,&#8221; which in some ways, makes all of today&#8217;s updates, from Dennis Hastert and others, preliminary. If Mark Foley wasn&#8217;t the only one, this mess could, believe it or not, get considerably worse. Consider: As the scandal over former congressman Mark Foley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}