The Fifth Beatle
Posted on 10/13/2006 4:32:38 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Kerry says GOP lied about Foley, Iraq
By HOLLY RAMER, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 14 minutes ago
Sen. John Kerry, a potential presidential candidate in 2008, likened the congressional page scandal to the war in Iraq on Friday, saying Republicans have lied about both.
"They tell us we're making progress in Iraq and that there is no civil war. That is a lie," Kerry, D-Mass., said in remarks prepared for delivery at the New Hampshire Democratic Party's annual fall fundraising dinner. "There is a civil war and it is costing American and Iraqi lives every single day, and we must change course in Iraq."
Republicans also are lying when they claim the page scandal surrounding former Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record) is a Democratic plot to win the midterm elections, Kerry said.
"This issue is here because of a Republican cover-up," he said. "And those from the party that preaches moral values that covered this up have no right to preach moral values anymore."
Foley, R-Fla., resigned Sept. 29 after being confronted with sexually explicit computer messages he sent to a teenage male page. For several days afterward, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., blamed Democrats for the scandal but later changed course and took responsibility for the matter.
On Thursday, the House ethics committee questioned a former Foley aide who has said he took complaints about Foley's conduct to Hastert's chief of staff three years ago. Hastert's chief of staff has denied that exchange took place.
Kerry, the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 2004, has packed his schedule with appearances for Democratic candidates for Congress and state offices.
New Hampshire Republican Reps. Charles Bass and Jeb Bradley "have failed to ask the tough questions, failed to demand the answers and rubber-stamped a willful president's wrongful course," Kerry said.
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Lemme see, the Republicans are "covering up for Foley" (by kicking him out of Congress) when he did some creepy yet apparently not illegal text messaging to male pages, but Gerry Studds, who actually had at least one male page in the "leapfrog position" was censured (read this: slapped on the wrist) and subsequently reelected several times by the people in his district, received a standing ovation by Democrats upon his triuphant return to his Congressional hunting grounds?
This from John Kerry, recipient of the Gerry Studds Stewardship Award from the Boston Harbor Island Alliance for his work to preserve the Boston Harbor Islands?
You couldn't make this stuff up!
What universe does Holly Ramer live in? Because neither of those things happened, AFAIK.
The Fifth Beatle
Anyone ask Kerry about freezerman William Jefferson lately?
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