On Tuesday, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., was indicted for allegedly using campaign funds for personal use, left; Michael Cohen, middle, pleaded guilty to tax evasion, as well as violating campaign finance law; and Paul Manafort, right, was convicted on 8 counts. (AP/Getty) History may not repeat itself. But it sure does rhyme. The war in Iraq wasn’t going well in the fall of 2005 and early 2006. A federal grand jury indicted top White House aide Scooter Libby. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, faced an indictment and was forced to step aside from his leadership post. DeLay aides Tony Rudy and Michael Scanlon encountered criminal charges in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. So did Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio. Ney went to jail. Rep. Duke Cunningham, R-Calif., resigned and did time after pleading guilty to bribery and fraud charges. But none of that quite sealed the deal for the rival party in the midterms. Then, word surfaced on the final two days of September 2006, that Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., sent inappropriate text messages to male, teenage House pages. The Foley news erupted in the final hours of Congress trying to wrap up work in Washington and head home to campaign for the midterm elections. Voters awarded Democrats both the House and Senate that November. It’s unclear that if in November, we’ll look back at Aug. 21 the same way we viewed the final days of September, some 12 years ago. But the potential is there.
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