Questions of Accountability in the Foley Scandal (Freeper Letter to Editor in Wash. Post)

The Washington Post ^ | Saturday, October 7, 2006 | Kristinn Taylor

[kristinn]

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In his Oct. 4 op-ed, Joseph A. Califano Jr. bragged of a day "When the House Could Clean Itself" under the Democratic leadership of Speaker Tip O'Neill. The process worked, Mr. Califano claimed.

However, the result stank to high heaven, as neither of the two representatives found in 1983 to have had illicit relationships with House pages was summarily expelled. Instead, they were allowed to remain in the House, with censure their only punishment.

One of the guilty parties, Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Mass.), contemptuously turned his back on Congress when he was censured. Rep. Daniel B. Crane (R-Ill.) was thrown out by voters of his district, who had higher moral standards and more respect for the House than did the Democratic constituents of Mr. O'Neill or Mr. Studds; the unrepentant representative kept winning reelection until his retirement in 1996.

I'll take Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's stewardship of the House over Tip O'Neill's any day.

KRISTINN TAYLOR

Silver Spring

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[Suzy Quzy]

Young bucks,pages, are not there to make FUN of anyone, they are PRIVILEGED to be there!!! IDIOTS...end the damn program for these pages.

[Suzy Quzy]

Every Rat is a HACK....that's why they are Rats....Califano is no different....disgusting.

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[BenLurkin]

Good letter.

I'm surprised they printed it.

[JulieRNR21]

Good letter! Thanks for writing!

We all need to send letters to our local newspapers to get out the facts of this story.

The Dems have been successful in creating the impression that Hastert covered up. They have melded together the friendly emails with the sexually explicit Instant Messages & the gullible public has bought into their scheme!

Even FoxNews repeated the misinformation on Newswatch last night. I emailed them with the facts:

Newswatch@foxnews.com

[bitt]

FYI ping

[devolve]

[Jim Robinson]

Great job, kristinn!!

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[potlatch]

Good graphic Seadog, thanks for pinging.

[potlatch]

Thanks bitt!

[bitt]

I wonder how much anyone has considered how easy it is to log onto AOL/IM as a user and communicate as them? I know plenty of people who knew/guessed others' passwords and would log on as them as spoofers...and cause trouble among their friends...as a joke...

plus, every time I walk by certain pcs, someone is leaving an IM - I could easily respond as the user and who could ever know...

Perhaps date and time of the IMs could be investigated...maybe the FFF was out of town or at another IP address at the times of these IMs...

("Foley the Fag from Florida" was what the Pages called him....nice...)

[bitt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMqOe5iBQEI

and of course, Teddy can kill a campaign worker and get off scott free.....

but we won't mention that....

[gidget7]

Good job! And you didn't even cover all their indescetions to do it, only 2 of them.

[Valin]

One of the guilty parties, Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Mass.), contemptuously turned his back on Congress when he was censured

If memory serves he received 3 standing ovations from the house democrats.

[Valin]

What we are seeing in this is the difference between how democrats & republicans handle member caught in a sexual scandal.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Way to go....Amazing....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OH MAN....Excellent Graphic.....

[Lady Jag]

[OldFriend]

Slick willie received a standing ovation from the dems on the day he was impeached.

Yet they and their cohorts in the media dare to criticize the republicans.