[Howlin]

As for "crap", you're the one now assuming that we have some huge Republican conspiracy based on a Nightline report.

I saw the page myself; he's believeable; they KNEW because they WARNED the incoming pages.

Either you like to argue for the sake of arguing or you have no grasp of the real world.

[NinoFan]

I cannot believe you are basing a Republican doomsday scenario on that page.

As for the real world, people also lie in the real world and they do a darn good job at it. I'll be shocked if you have never had the common experience of being fooled by someone. Some liars are so good that they convince even the most skeptical that they are telling the truth.

[conservative in nyc]

In the 1980s, Congress censured a Democrat congressman from Massachusetts who had sex with a 17-year old male page. He admitted it, turned his back on the House when he was censured, vehemently claimed that the gay sex was nobody's business but his and the page, refused to resign, ran for reelection and won. I don't think we're losing the House solely over this.

By the way, a Republican congressman from Illinois who sexually abused an underage female page was censured at the same time. He profusely apologized, ran for reelection and lost. Kind of tells you the difference between Republicans and Democrats, doesn't it? Democrats are held to much lower standards.