Posted on 10/03/2006 3:09:10 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
/rant
By the way, when are they going to go through Barney Franks' emale?
Did you say "emale?" LOL
LOL!
Clinton pardoned Mel Martinez for having sex with a 16 year old. Yeah? Really.
Mel Reynolds.
Thanks.
Franks should have, but he didn't. That doesn't excuse Foley though.
Franks and Studds pulled their stunts back in the 80's before there was the glare of half a dozen 24 hour news channels. Even being Democrats, I wonder if they would have been able to make it through without resigning if it happened today?
Good question. Guess they feel it's OK, as long as the homos are the same age*/s
*And, they both better be Democrats;)
"Franks and Studds pulled their stunts back in the 80's before there was the glare of half a dozen 24 hour news channels. Even being Democrats, I wonder if they would have been able to make it through without resigning if it happened today?"
You forget what state they are from....
Foley did it in his mind through the internet.
I think Franks will be firmly behind Foley.
Are the Libs willing to side with the Boy Scouts now too?
The way they've been screaming Hastert and the leadership should have known because Foley was gay, they must have had an awakening over night and come to our side in acknowledging homosexuals being in charge of young boys opens up potential "page" scandels as well.
Immormal hypocrites. They aren't content to endanger this country's national security, they would endanger our children's security. We know this by past behavior, we know this because they knew about Foley and did NOTHING until on eve of elections.
emale indeed. Do you know what Dick Armey used to pubically call Barney Frank?
I agree...I'm sure both of them will get it in the end...
• In 1983, then-Democratic Rep. Gerry Studds of Massachusetts was caught in a similar situation. In his case, Studds had sex with a male teenage page -- something Foley hasn't been charged with.
Did Studds express contrition? Resign? Quite the contrary. He rejected Congress' censure of him and continued to represent his district until his retirement in 1996.
• In 1989, Rep. Barney Frank, also of Massachusetts, admitted he'd lived with Steve Gobie, a male prostitute who ran a gay sex-for-hire ring out of Frank's apartment. Frank, it was later discovered, used his position to fix 33 parking tickets for Gobie.
What happened to Frank? The House voted 408-18 to reprimand him -- a slap on the wrist. Today he's an honored Democratic member of Congress, much in demand as a speaker and "conscience of the party."
• In 2001, President Clinton, who had his own intern problem, commuted the prison sentence of Illinois Rep. Mel Reynolds, who had sex with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer and pressured her to lie about it. (Reynolds also was convicted of campaign spending violations.)
http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=244680809798238
Good post, boss.
Jim Robinson
Since Nov 28, 1997
Can we move this vanity to chat?
(/sarcasm)
If Foley had just come "out" as a gay Scoutmaster the libs would've all rallied around him. Sad but true.
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