Posted on 10/03/2006 11:52:36 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Last night, ABC News investigative journalist Brian Ross suggested "there may be other members of Congress who engaged in inappropriate behavior towards congressional pages."
Said Ross, "Were hearing quite a bit from former pages. Theyre sending us all sorts of messages about possible other members."
This may also be Tom Delay at work.
Today's 15 minutes of fame seem to revolve around a Jerry Springer-esque revelations.
The press corps is short-stroking this all over the map; perhaps they're trying to make up for their collective yawns all 'round when Gerry Studds sequestered himself in the Congressional cloak room some years back and promoted a concert on the ol' skin flute.
blowback?
Doesn't surprise me. And it will probably all be against republicans. I've seen links that try to make the Dems the Party of Moral Values. Remember a year or so ago when they were trumpeting the Republicans as the Party of Corruption. THis has been their operating principle for yers. Don't offer any plans or visions, just make as much negative noise as you can about the Republicans just to turn off the moderate voters. There will bea chorus of accusations of perversion that we will have a hard time keeping up with it. It will be like playing wack-a-mole for the next 6 weeks.
That's what I was thinking, as DeLay and Karl Rove may have reeled in the Dem's with the "Foley-bait", and they are being set up for a perfectly timed dumping in the couple of weeks before the Election (the October Surprise???)
What's Larry Flynt been up to these days?
I'm thinking Rove tossed Foley to the sharks as chum....the fallout could well be the surprise?
OMG you read my mind! First person I thought of was Larry Flint!
If there are more fags in DC hunting for boy toys, the country should know about ALL of them. I don't care what party they're from.
Sometimes that's necessary. The more that evangelicals identify with the Republican party, I believe the more we are in for God-style cleansings. It's what He does for His name. And to protect His people. It's not fun. If you've ever read The Chronicles of Narnia, I am reminded that this is what God did to Eustace after he slept with the dragon. It hurt him terribly, but he was forever changed.
my personal opinion is this..someone, somewhere managed to get and keep copies of these e-mails and IM's (for 3 years)..if they go back 3 years and there's nothing more recent, even though Foley MAY have kept up his behavior, why are there no more recent ones? this would seem to indicate that foley's behaviour was in fact confronted and he either A) modified it or B) used a different s/n to continue on..IMHO someone kept these for reasons unknown, but which are becoming clear.
if the dems thought they could attack this instance of a very sick man and blame the entire republican party without a figurative shot being fired back, they were sorely mistaken.
among many interesting stories sure to come out is, how will the dems handle the accusations against one of their own? will they completely back them or will they take the high road and do what they're now demanding of hastert and resign?
the end result is that members of congress and the senate hold tremendous power over these young people for whom getting a page gig is an important part of their resume. one word from a pi*sed off senator or representative can, temporarily at least, crush these young people.
people are people and there are messed up people everywhere be they white, black, yellow, muslim, dem, rep and so on..piling on with dems blaming all reps is just as unfair as reps blaming all dems for mary jo..
as the chinese said, "may you live in interesting times"..the weeks ahead will certainly be interesting..
(the above is simply my opinion)
I said this a few days ago. Scum like Foley's don't usually travel in a vacuum. The only question was whether the scum he associated with were on Capitol Hill or off, but for certain he hung out with others like himself.
That stated ABC isn't exactly a truth slayer. I'd verify whatever they have on anyone else.
Me neither - GET THEM OUT OF CONGRESS!
Wouldn't that beat all!
aha
Rove
where's the magnificent bastard pic?
Yeah, but ABC will spike the democrat ones.
;-)
These pages remind me of The Children of the Corn!
Geesh they could have told the pervert to get lost.
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