lol. Whatever dude. I'm so chilled I should be a Heineken. It's just sad and pathetic to see ppl grasping at the lamest defenses of this creep Foley. He's basically admitted it, hasn't he? So what else is there to talk about? That the DEMs released the info in a politically advantageous way? Well shazzam! What a surprise. Get over it. Move on.
Admitted what, exactly?
This is the whole problem, IMHO. "He's admitted it," leaves us with lurid and perverted imaginings. But there is an important difference between writing disgusting and perverted Instant Messages and engaging in disgusting and perverted sex. There's even an important difference between disgusting and perverted emails and disgusting and perverted Instant Messages - and a greater one between mildly disquieting emails and disgusting and perverted IMs.
But we just say,"He's basically admitted it," (where "basically" means he may NOT have admitted anything but his actions lead one to conclude that he's not going to dispute anything) and pay no attention to collateral damage and innocent bystanders -- or between culpable negligence, such as Hastert is being accused of, and possibly careless inaction?
Oh my, it's SUCH fun to throw out vague charges, but to base one's opinions and actions on them is irresponsible, I think.
You totally miss the point. The big issue that cannot be ignored is that the drive by media is making a charge of systematic and party-wide corruption of this. The issue they're bringing forward is:
What did the Republican leadership know, and when did they know it?
Hastert says he was told of the emails only, Foley said it was taken out of context and he didn't mean anything bad by it, Hstert told Foley to knock it off, Foley said Yessir, and that was it.
Now various groups, some attributing to themselves a conservative label, are calling on Hastert and other top Republicans to themselves resign over this. Further investigation by real conservative bloggers found that several of these so-called groups are actually democratic organizations (one, American Family Voices, is run by current Hillary Clinton and ex-Clinton White House staffer Mike Lux), and that the media knew of the IM's long beofre the House Republican leadership did, and are sandbagging them about it now, deliberately confusing the emails that were known with the IMs that were not known by the House leadership.
If you think Republicans can just move on from that without fighting back then you must truly think they are the Stupid Party.