What Washington is talking about this week.
By Michael Grunwald
1.La Cage Au Foley
Republicans- After polls suggest that the mess surrounding former Rep. Mark Foley, R.-Fla., is poised to end GOP control of Congress, embattled House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., calls for the resignation of anyone who knew about Foley's conduct, not including embattled House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Meanwhile, amid allegations that several Republicans knew that Foley had tried to crash a party for teenage House pages, GOP lawmakers demand an investigation of … the Clinton administration's Sandy Berger? Next month, they may get to watch their own party crash.
2.Bombs Away!
North Korea- Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., also takes aim at the Clinton administration, which had a foreign policy so diabolical that it allowed Kim Jong-il to develop a nuclear bomb on President Bush's watch. Bush vows to resolve the crisis through diplomacy, because nothing else has worked. But he also warns that if North Korea remains defiant, he can't rule out the possibility that the United States will invade Luxembourg.
3.Scottie and Kirk
Page-gate- GOP staffer Kirk Fordham testifies that he warned Hastert aide Scott Palmer about Foley's antics; Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., and House clerk Jeff Trandahl also had inklings. Incidentally, Fordham, Kolbe, Trandahl, and Foley are all gay, and Palmer is Hastert's D.C. roommate. Pretty soon, the Republican caucus is going to get its own show on Bravo.
4.Death By Numbers
Iraq- A new study estimates that the war has caused an additional 650,000 Iraqi deaths since 2003, about 600,000 of them from violence, the rest from imported California spinach. Other studies are less alarmist, suggesting that at the current rate, the war wouldn't claim that many lives for two more decades. At the current rate, we'll probably get to find out if that's true.
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