Posted on 10/17/2006 7:01:47 AM PDT by areafiftyone
October 17, 2006 -- THE death over the weekend of former Rep. Gerry Studds, the first openly gay member of Congress, is a stark reminder of how much all those howls of Democratic outrage over the Mark Foley scandal ring so hollow.
The Massachusetts Democrat is being hailed by national political leaders, including Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, as a "role model" who "gave a lot of people courage" by coming out of the closet.
Yet Studds openly declared his homosexuality only after an investigation revealed he'd had a sexual relationship with a male teenage congressional page and propositioned two others.
That behavior was clearly worse than Foley's - and Studds, to his dying day, never apologized. So how did this make him a hero?
News of Foley's lewd e-mails and instant messages to pages has prompted some mention of that first scandal, but most accounts miss the fact that the Democratic-controlled House almost let him off the hook.
In 1983, Studds and Rep. Dan Crane, an Illinois Republican, were both formally censured after they admitted to past sexual relationships with underage pages.
But House leaders had wanted to give both men the mildest rebuke - and proclaimed that Speaker Tip O'Neill had been "vindicated."
The affair began when two former pages went public with allegations that numerous House members had had sex with underage pages and used them as couriers for a drug ring. One page soon admitted that he'd lied; the other's allegations could not be substantiated.
But after rejecting calls for a special prosecutor, the House authorized its Ethics Committee to launch its own probe, which lasted for a full year.
The investigation determined that both Studds and Crane had had sex with underage pages....
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That piece of garbage is now where he belongs.
That piece of garbage is now where he belongs.
YouTube video of nancy pelosi in a 1987 homosexual agenda march
The hypocrisy will go over her empty brain.
I did hear something about a memorial service being held AFTER the election!
And I haven't been following the whole sordid Foley situation closely, but I wonder if AFTER the election it will come out that he never sent any explicit message to anyone under 18. I really wonder. I wouldn't be one bit surprised. I remember the "Downing Street Memo" - I innocently asked to see the actual memo - not a transcript, but a picture of it - and lo and behold none existed.
He was a sleaze, and he's gone. That's all I care about.
But I'd bet a week's pay that this story may indeed unravel - after the elections, of course.
And where is that and how do you know? Your comment seems a little self-satisfactory, smug, presumptious to me. For all we know, he may have accepted Christ into his life before he died. That's between him and the Lord.
Sorry, but your comment came across as hateful to me.
Vote! For heaven's sake VOTE and
She was almost certainly standing and clapping when Studds got a standing ovation on his retirement. C-SPAN certainly covered that auspicious event. Can any intrepid Freeper find that footage? After all, actions speak louder than words.
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Sometimes Fate hands over such an opportunity to make a point, that it's an absolute travesty not to use it. Just at the moment when Democrats would like to claim amnesia about "Who? Gerry Studds...never heard of him" The old pervert up and dies, FORCING the 'Rats to acknowledge his existence.
And where are the Republicans on this? Sure, they don't want to dishonor the dead - but the contrast can certainly be made concerning the difference in 'Rat treatment of his reputation versus that of Foley's or Hastert's.
Finally! A piece that does not praise this perverted POS as some kind of saint.
It is not Foley's behavior the Dems object to;( paging Captain Obvious) not any more than they objected to Studds' behavior. Their feigned outrage is simply thinly disguised glee at being able to bash a Republican. It is amusing, though sickening, to watch them condemn Foley while trying not to alienate a large portion of their base, those of the homosexual persuasion.
Fatboy is trying to praise him for the work he did for fisheries. Does that include the $10,000 a month bill he charged the state for a no-show consulting fee on the Bedford Oceanareum which never got built? Gerry, I hear they put sand in the vaseline in Hell.
Gee, I wonder if anyone has this on tape . . . :)
It might be as helpful to the Republicans as the tapes of Ruth Bader Ginsburg refusing to answer questions on issues that might arise before hero on the USSC.
Thank you for pointing that out!
And?
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