Posted on 10/02/2006 9:19:15 PM PDT by SmithL
Former Rep. Mark Foley's salacious correspondence with teenage boys working as congressional pages is the kind of story that not only obliterates interest in whatever bills Congress passed before leaving town but promises to hit a much rawer public nerve than the corruption scandals that have already removed three Republicans from office this year.
It strikes especially hard at "values voters," the conservative Christians who make up the core of the Republican Party.
"This kind of thing just should not happen, and there is no excuse to justify it in any way." said Rev. Bob Schenck,... National Clergy Council, a politically active group of conservative church leaders.
"A big deal should be made of it, and we intend to make a big deal of it," he said. "We plan to address it in pulpits across the country, that this is an egregious moral violation, and we all will be held accountable."
A swirl of unanswered questions remain over who in the Republican leadership knew what about Foley's exchanges and when they knew it. GOP leaders dismissed the first e-mail exchange that came to light months ago as "overly friendly," but some conservative activists now say the messages "had predator written all over them." Foley, a Republican congressman from Florida, was chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children.
A criminal investigation has been opened and shows every indication of keeping the scandal alive through the election.
"The electorate is 20 percent Republican, 20 percent Democrat, and 60 percent disgusted,"
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Say many struggling Demiocrats.
But... he IS gone!!!
You owe me a keyboard!!!!!!
Now it's YOUR ox getting gored!!
The irony of San Fagcisco being outraged by this! Perhaps their outraged he wasn't their Congressrat.
Pray for W and Our Troops
BULL THEY WANT IT TO HIT US HARD.
WHEN DID THE DEMOCRATS KNOW....AND WHO?
HELLO PEOPLE... article from San Fran Chronicle...Dont respond.
What coordination was their between the Dims and the Stone-age Press???
Pray for W and Our Troops
I saw him, too. Disgusting, and Jay let him get away with it.
Mark Green left his Wisconsin House of Representative seat to run for govenor, and it doesn't look too good for him to be elected govenor of Wisconsin. I don't know who is running for his House seat, but maybe it would have been better had he not run for govenor and kept his house seat.
The waiting is nerve racking, especially watching the Dems and the MSM ratcheting up their tactics.
It was supposed to. This is why they released the e-mails at this time as opposed to wheen they knew about them. Do not fall into their trap.
They may madden you, but without them you are looking at less than 200 seats in the house, and 40 senators.
Good luck with that. The party has aligned itself with the values voters, and it's not easy to re-align a party to win back disaffected non-value fiscal conservatives who have gone to the democrats or two 3rd parties or are just out of politics.
We've spent 30 years picking and choosing wedge issues on both sides of the aisle trying to find that illusive 51% majority.
Value voters are easy to get (just a few issues), are hard workers, and show up to vote. Unless they don't see the difference between the parties.
Frankly, I don't think it is too much to ask as a voter that the leadership take more seriously e-mails which make young men uncomfortable, or at least to fully follow their OWN PROCESS, which should have included the entire 3-member page panel. And it wouldn't have killed Hastert to actually READ the e-mails.
That, plus Hastert's botching of the issue on Friday with his dismissive comments, make it nearly impossible for him to look good now. He had a good story, but once you get it wrong, it looks like you are lying to cover it up.
Hastert deserves better, because he's a good man, but the fact that he didn't see the importance of getting his team together and getting all the facts before everybody started speaking is enough to show that he has some pretty serious flaws as a leader.
MY ox?
Sorry, but I don't have a clue what you are talking about. Maybe you mis-posted to me.
All that is likely do is convince voters that we are attempting to create moral equivalency and that we are just as bad as the Dems on moral issues. Talking about eliminating the Page Program because the adult leaders of our country cant be trusted with children is stupid. Tell LaHood to shut the ---- up. LaHood is close to Hastert. What the heck was he thinking?
This article is a mess on purpose.
This entire scandal points out the reason the DINOSAUR media is a dinosaur.
NONE of the reporters is in any way knowledgable about modern technology. They can't identify email, instant messages, text messages, blogs, or forums.
The MSM is not only ignorant about the internet, they are literally trying to make others equally ignorant for political advantage.
Chris Mathews is a partisan hack.
Get a grip.
Hassert did read the EMAILS.
The emails are the non sexual messages. These are recorded in the house email system..
INSTANT MESSAGES ARE NOT EMAILS.
Those were revealed THURSDAY.
Foley was asked to resign by Friday.
The Republicans had the Instant Messages for ONE DAY.
Democrats had the instant messages of a sex predator for THREE YEARS.
We can comfortably argue, as leader PELOSI KNEW FOR THREE YEARS!!!!!
One day vs THREE YEARS.
The democrats are scum. Hassert is fine.
If you don't like facts go to the DUmies.
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