However, this article highlights Foley's admittance that he's gay and his emphatic denials (through his lawyer) that he is not a pedophile and has never had sex with a minor – a fact Foley made known to Edmund in his IM's:
Maf54: I always knew you were a player but I don’t fool around with pages
But we know the the objective of the media and the rats is to blame Hastert for Foley's sex-life, therefore Hastert should resign.
We need to hear our GOP leaders stand up for themselves, because the enemy won't stop repeating Foley's peccadilloes, despite the fact that those peccadilloes have nothing in particular to do with Hastert or the rest of the GOP.
Foley resigned for sending improper emails, and there's an investigation into his conduct, but that doesn't stop the media and the Democrats from demanding Hastert's resignation despite the non-existent sexual relations between Foley and underage pages. Indeed, there isn't even a credible allegation of sexually explicit emails with underage pages and even the IM's in question were with an 18 years old ex-page.
Therefore the Rats and the MSM appear to want Hastert to resign because Foley is a gay man.
" Therefore the Rats and the MSM appear to want Hastert to resign because Foley is a gay man."
The law of unintended consequences is at work here.
All gay men have been marked as pedophiles and child molesters by the Democrat Party and the media.
The Rev Nancy Pelosi has demanded that fire and brimstone rain down on homosexuals from her pulpit at the First Church of Hate And Intolerance.
If someone had told me a week ago, that the most vocal condemnation of gay men and their lifestyles would be coming from the Democrat Party ,
I would never have believed it.
Hastert scratches New York fundraiser
October 8, 2006
BY LYNN SWEET Sun-Times Columnist
WASHINGTON -- Embattled House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert nixed plans to headline a mid-October fund-raiser in New York with Mayor Bloomberg -- but will stand with President Bush on Thursday in Chicago.
The Bush White House will lend more support to Hastert when spokesman Tony Snow travels to his northern Illinois district next Saturday to headline the speaker's annual "mega-dinner" fund-raiser.
Hastert scrambled last week to stop political bleeding -- with calls for him to step down in the wake of how he handled the Mark Foley cyberspace sex scandal. The speaker said he was clueless there was any problem with Foley sexually preying on pages until a week ago. His critics say Hastert's staffers knew for more than a year of a Foley problem and were part of a cover-up.
Clueless or cover-up -- it's potentially politically toxic this close to an election. The Washington Post on Friday and the New York Times and ABC News on Saturday reported that Scott Palmer, Hastert's longtime chief of staff, met with Foley to discuss complaints about Foley's interactions with pages well before the speaker says his aides took any action. The reports were based on accounts from a source described as a current congressional staff member. What is not clear is if there are three different staffers pointing the finger at Palmer, two, or one.
In a statement released Saturday, Hastert spokesman Ron Bonjean said, "The House Standards Committee is investigating this matter, and we are confident in its ability to determine the real facts."
Illinois territory safe
Still worried that he is a liability, Hastert is revising what had been a packed October campaign schedule. Thursday, I reported exclusively that Hastert had about 30 events penciled in for the weeks before the Nov. 7 elections. After the Foley scandal broke, Rep. Ron Lewis (R-Ky.) scratched a Tuesday fund-raiser with the speaker in Kentucky. I was told that was not going to be an isolated instance.
Now the speaker is canceling dates. Hastert was to travel to a Manhattan home Oct. 17 to be the draw with Bloomberg for a reception to benefit Rep. John Sweeney, a Republican who represents an upstate New York district.
Sweeney's chief of staff, Sean O'Neill, told me Friday that the speaker's advance office called to cancel either late Thursday or Friday.
"It is our understanding he will not be coming to our event on the 17th," O'Neill said. I asked if the Sweeney campaign asked Hastert to withdraw, and O'Neill said, "We did not."
When I asked Bonjean about the cancellation, he said, "We go where people want us to go."
When Hastert plays on his home court in Illinois, he remains in safe political territory. Bonjean told me Hastert will stand with Bush at Thursday's fund-raising event in Chicago for GOP contenders in the two biggest House races in Illinois, both in the suburbs -- state Sen. Peter Roskam (R-Wheaton) running against Democrat Tammy Duckworth, and David McSweeney challenging Rep. Melissa Bean (D-Ill.).
Former President Bill Clinton hits Chicago on Oct. 23 for the Democrats.
Bush phoned Hastert on Thursday night to bolster him. Vice President Dick Cheney, in an interview with the Washington Examiner, also gave him a boost and told him not to quit. (Cheney and Hastert are close; one of Hastert's sons once worked in Cheney's vice presidential office.)
Snow, in an unusual move for White House press secretaries, will hit the fund-raising circuit. His stop next week in St. Charles is at an event aimed at district residents.
Shimkus hires lawyer
Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) told me Thursday he has no plans to quit as chairman of the House Page Board but would not be upset if House leaders decided on someone new to take on the post. However, "I am not going to leave based on political attacks."
Sen. Dick Durbin's press secretary, Joe Shoemaker, issued a statement Friday renewing Durbin's call for Shimkus to step aside. That came after Shimkus said in interviews that Durbin and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) owed him an apology, suggesting he mishandled the Foley situation when it was brought to him in November 2005. (Durbin was traveling as part of an official congressional delegation to Afghanistan and Iraq.)
Shimkus said he has hired a lawyer as probes of Foley, a Florida Republican who quit the House a week ago, are now under way by the Justice Department, Florida authorities and the House ethics panel.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/88388,CST-NWS-SWEET08s1.article