Posted on 10/03/2006 7:42:21 AM PDT by rellimpank
The Seattle Times reports "House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wants the House Ethics Committee to put Republican leadership under oath to find out what they knew about Congressman Mark Foley's inappropriate communications with Congressional pages."
In a statement, Minority Senate leader Harry Reid (D) described the allegations against Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) as 'repugnant.' "Equally as bad," the Nevada Democrat said, "is the possibility that Republican leaders in the House of Representatives knew there was a problem and ignored it to preserve a Congressional seat this election year."
Now wait a minute...
Then President Bill Clinton had not been sending inappropriate suggestive emails and instant messages to a young intern, an act certainly repugnant no matter the authors' politics. He had reduced the previously revered Oval Office, to just a personal sexually perverted play pen.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Actually you'd guess wrong: 16 the most common age of consent nationwide, and represents an increase from traditional norms in which age of consent was linked to marriagable age, which had often been 14.
There is no 'red-state/blue-state' pattern in age of consent. California and Oregon, two of the 'bluest' states have 18, New York ties Texas with 17. We in Kansas, not a place the demonRATs could effect any change in social policy have 16 with a 'Romeo-and-Juliette' exception and an exception for marriages with parental consent down to 14.
uhhhhhhhhh, it's more than a little different in my mind. If you equate the two, then I don't know what to see.
Oh wait. You're being serious aren't you. The fact you can attempt to justify this by bringing up those examples shows your desperation to excuse it away.
Sorry, the guy is a pooftah who MAY have attempted to lure minors. I don't see that in ANY way shape or form similar to your examples. The fact that that you do calls your opinions in question.
Somehow I don't think you were so forgiving with Slick Willy.
It appears that the boy was 18.
I'm not defending Foley but facts are important.
I think it is time to bring up the Marriage Amendment for a vote in BOTH HOUSES...
I think it is time to bring up the Marriage Amendment in BOTH HOUSES...
Let's see the votes!
Rove and the gang are busy, busy, busy this am figuring out where best to send this rocket back to the sender.
It was predictable that the Democrats would imply this young man (the page) was actually an 11 year old prepubescent boy. They needed to engage in such a deception to make their smear campaign work without offending the vast army of homosexual men in their party who are share the same perversion as Foley.
What wasn't predictable was how many FReepers would buy into this ragged and buffoonish deception.
"If monica were 16, bill would have resigned."
NOPE. Hillary would have arranged for her to be killed during a robbery in which the robbers took no money.
(Like the waitress at STARBUCKS)
"If this page were 18, the Dems would be celebrating Foley and asking him to joint their party."
This PAGE was 18. Foley used to be a DEMOCRAT, but switched parties (why is the question, or who told him to switch parties???? (for instance, Hillary, who had the FBI files and knew about this all along????)
"JOINT THEIR PARTY" Well, we know he was an alcoholic, but a pot smoker????
What if the "kid" was 18?
I thought all 16-year old boys on the internet were actually vice cops.
No story other than a pooftah looking for as young as legally possible same sex partners while attempting to protect them up to the day prior to his hitting on them. Very creepy, and a reason for resignation right there if you ask me.
When he is licking his lips checking out the "legal age countdown" sites while heading the fight to protect kids, then there is something seriously wrong.
You're right. I'm glad he's gone too. Waaaaay too creepy to be a Republican. He needs to be a dem and get the MSM free pass for all his crap...
In 1983, Democratic congressman Gerry Studds was found to have sexually propositioned House pages and actually buggered a 17-year-old male page whom he took on a trip to Portugal. The 46-year-old Studds indignantly attacked those who criticized him for what he called a "mutually voluntary, private relationship between adults."
Washington Post columnist Colman McCarthy referred to Studds' affair with a teenage page as "a brief consenting homosexual relationship" and denounced Studds' detractors for engaging in a "witch hunt" against gays: "New England witch trials belong to the past, or so it is thought. This summer on Cape Cod, the reputation of Rep Gerry Studds was burned at the stake by a large number of his constituents determined to torch the congressman for his private life."
Meanwhile, Foley is hiding in a hole someplace.
No one demanded to know why the Democrat Speaker of the House, Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, took one full decade to figure out that Studds was propositioning male pages.
Ann Coulter
Ann was spot on with that article, as was Taranto yesterday with his.
Rush needs to play a "montage" of the Clinton sex scandal where ALL the democrats spewed the "it's just about sex" rhetoric....
still gross.....
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