Posted on 10/03/2006 6:43:59 AM PDT by no dems
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert said yesterday that Republican leaders had not previously seen the more lurid Internet "instant messages" sent by disgraced ex-Rep. Mark Foley as influential conservatives began calling for party leadership resignations over the handling of the matter.
Mr. Hastert said "No one in the Republican leadership ... saw those messages until last Friday when ABC News released them."
Still, several well-known conservatives called for Republican resignations because Hastert and other leaders did not act aggressively enough when they first learned of a separate set of "overly friendly" e-mails that Mr. Foley had sent to another teenage former page.
"Speaker Hastert had knowledge of Congressman Foley's inappropriate behavior and chose to protect a potential pedophile" David Bossie, president of the conservative group Citizens United, said yesterday. "If Speaker Hastert was willing to sacrifice a child to protect Representative Foley's seat and his own leadership position, then he surely does not share our American and conservative values."
"When you have a 50-year-old man -- who is a known homosexual -- who wants a picture of a 16-year-old boy, that should send out some alarm bells," he said. "This is almost like a Clinton-type response."
"That e-mail they call an 'overly friendly' e-mail -- that had predator stamped all over it. There's just no one in this country that can suggest otherwise," said Bay Buchanan, the president of American Cause.
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Make that LEGENDARY.
Now we have to jail "potential" criminals? I don't want you on the "thought police" monitor.
As far as I know what Hastert did was not illegal.
I meant Foley. I guess you could include Hastert as well. You seem to be out for blood much like a lynch mob. I wonder what your stake is in this?
As far as I know any AIM text can be cut and paste. IOW saved You're right Trillian does save the text and you can log on to AOL IM through Trillian. I use it to avoid AOL's commercials. BTW there is no such thing as a secure telephone either for the average Joe. One malfunction called cross talk and you can hear every word the person your line is crossed with is saying.
As for Foley? There is no defending him. He was a congressman who made himself a target for blackmail and extortion by his behavior. He was a walking national security risk. Foley and others like him need to be removed from office. Party should not matter.
The MSM is trying to say "all homosexuals are potential pedophiles" without saying homosexuals ARE pedophiles.
It is a quandry for the MSM.
The MSM is saying EVERYONE knew Foley was a homosexual.
YET the MSM never reported this knowlege that as a homosexual Foley was a pedophile.
MSM quandry. They want the Republicans out, but to do this they have to sacrifice the homosexuals.
Thats ok, the left aways considered homosexuals as disposable.
Man, if you're serious then this nation has more serious problems than I thought.
Hundreds of people knew what this guy was doing ( which BTW did not include having sex with interns as far as we know now). No one did anything. Everyone there is terrified about being branded a homophobe.
>>Now take a deep breath, stop hyperventilating, and let the facts come out. Then we can talk more about who knew what and when, and take action.
Worth saying again, and someone should have told the Wash Times this, and they should have acted on it, before they printed their idiot editorial this week.
What the hell are you talking about?
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