Foley Quits Amid Allegations of Email Sex Scandal

I have the feeling that one end of this investigation is going to go a lot further than the other end ...

An overwhelming majority of Americans think House Republican leaders put their own political interests ahead of the safety of congressional pages in their handling of the Mark Foley scandal, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll.

The Republicrats will never release the secret findings that show the corrpution and moral decay which went on in the White House when the scumbag Frank Sinatra was visiting Nancy Reagan.

Once again, feel free to start another thread on this topic, and I will participate there; but this thread is for discussion of the Foley Affair and the fallout.

Cycloptichorn

woiyo; there are scumbags on both sides of isle (spell?). One scumbag don't cancel out another scumbag.

woiyo; there are scumbags on both sides of isle (spell?). One scumbag don't cancel out another scumbag.

revel wrote:

woiyo; there are scumbags on both sides of isle (spell?). One scumbag don't cancel out another scumbag.

The word is "aisle," revel.

revel wrote:

woiyo; there are scumbags on both sides of isle (spell?). One scumbag don't cancel out another scumbag.

Duh...really?

And you are partisen to which criminal organization? Dems or Repugs?

GREAT MOMENTS IN FOLEY COVERAGE

On Fox News this afternoon, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said this:

I mean, CBS reported this week that there's a network of gay staffers that covered for Foley. Was that part of what led up to this? Was it a disservice to the Republican leadership by staffers?

But what Perkins was almost certainly referring to was a CBS News segment in which Perkins himself was quoted wondering whether a network of gay staffers had covered for Foley. CBS didn't actually make this assertion.

In other words, Perkins raised the theory on CBS and is now clearly implying that CBS has "reported" it as fact.

You almost have to admire it.

As do I, Cyc, and as I've said a number of times to you in the past, "We shall see".

SMELLING A RAT:

Like most, I'd assumed that the GOP's ridiculous, no-evidence-is-enough-evidence-for-us charges about Democratic involvement in the Foley revelations were part of a conscious strategy to muddy the moral waters in what has been, so far, an exclusively Republican scandal. But in an otherwise unremarkable piece in the Outlook section of yesterday's Washington Post, Byron York suggests a still more disturbing possibility.

Writing about those conservatives whom he sympathetically dubs the "smell a rat" camp, York suggests that they--and Denny Hastert in particular--really believe this crap.

Although they didn't have any solid evidence, some Republicans suspected that Democrats were behind it. The speaker was among them. "Hastert believes that with everything in him," [Paul] Weyrich told me.

Can Republicans really have dug so deep into their spider hole of paranoia and entitlement that they can't even imagine having done anything wrong without it somehow being the fault of Democrats? Or has their own experience in hyping fabricated scandals (see Swift Boats, etc.) led them to believe there's no other kind?

--Christopher Orr