First, Foley was, and is, a scaly geek. Whether he's also a criminal... doesn't seem to me to be worth the pettifogging it's getting. He was a geek, he needed to go. He's gone, so what's the problem?
If the GOP loses the House it will not be because Mark Foley was a scaly geek, a 50-something lecher who wants to seduce teenagers (whether they're "this"teen or "that"teen is kind of immaterial when I put it that way, isn't it?) It's just as scaly when it's a straight guy.
I mean, I am younger than Foley, and thumpingly heterosexual, but I really can't see myself in my horniest imaginable state sending racy IMs or emails to 16-to-18-year-old girls. What on earth would we talk about? (Maybe that's why the selection of subject matter in the Foley documents is so... narrow).
No, if the GOP loses the house it will be because the GOP leadership, Hastert, DeLay, Boehner, and their cronies, threw it away. They were more interested in lining their own pockets and the plush pockets of their friends than it showing leadership. They had numerous opportunities to reform but they were too busy rakin' it in. When they elected Boehner to replace DeLay -- elected "Mr K Street" who is known as a spineless puppet of lobbyists -- they pretty much said, "the electorate is stupid, and we have a lock on this entitlement."
If they lose the house it will be because, with the house in hand in 1994, the key provision of the Contract With America -- term limits -- was thrown out.
In very few details was the Republican congress of the last 12 years superior to its Democratic predecessor, and by 2006 it had become almost indistinguishable.
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
Sorry about this, for those of you who are faithful Republicans. But to me it is more important that a Congressman not be a creep than it is that he be a political ally.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
So Foley resigned what is the problem? No one is suggesting one become an ally of Foley quite the opposite. FYI Hastert in this case did nothing wrong.
Bravo