I’m glad Foley is gone. However, his e-mail while the page was under 18 did not contain sexual content just inappropriate context. It wasn’t until the person became a former page over the age of 18 that Foley but sexual content into an IM.

Both took advantage of young subordinates and both should have left office.

Stubbs, Franks, Clinton, Kennedy (both Ted and Patrick) - the Democratic leadership not only didn't punish the behavior, they went out of their way to defend it. Especially the feminists (who usually equate all male employer-female employee sex as rape), gay activists (who usually insist that the "gay lifestyle" doesn't include pedophilia), and those who want to legalize drugs (because recreational use doesn't hurt anyone). There were no calls for anyone in the Democratic leadership to resign over any of these sitautions.

But in the Republicans case, the leadership always condemns the behavior and punishes the offender, if the offender doesn't "fall oh his sword" first. Ney isn't running for re-election and has already stepped down from his leadership positions, Foley resigned, etc. But this isn't enough for the Democrats - they want nothing less than the immediate resignation of every elected Republican official anywhere in the country.

DeLay is a different situation. Unlike Jefferson (who was caught red-handed with his hand in the cookie jar - and the cookies still in his refigerator), all DeLay is guilty of is finding the loopholes in a badly written set of election financing laws. His indictment by an self-avowed political advisary is simply proof that a determined prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich - even if he's got to try repeatedly to find enough patisan panelists to do it.

The democrats of Louisanna opted not to endorse him for his reelection, but that was a just barely thing, with 43% in favor of endorsing him.

Your excuse is that he hasn't been convicted of anything, but then neither has Foley (as far as we can tell Foley's behavior is looking more and more to be just scummy, but not illegal-but further investigation may dig something up).

Reid-he was involved with Abramoff and has some recent troubles, if the DNC takes the senate, how much you want to bet, he stays the leader?

And the reality is that the Dems weren't exactly fonts of ethical behavior while they were in charge of congress. There was that post office scandal, ab scam (jack murtha was part of that, and he is still running for elections and getting elected).

The reality is that both parties have bad apples, it is just that the dems tend to more often than not keep theirs around.

OK, which Democrats went out of there way to defend Stubbs and also attacked Foley? Names, por favor. Your use of "they" is kinda weak...

So your response to the Foley scandal is to harken back to scummy actions by a Democrat in the 70’s? Kind of like the many mentions of Chappaquiddick we have been hearing.

But notice, please, that while the Democrats went out of their way to defend these, they also went out of their way to attack Foley on the same ground.

The phrase "double standard" comes to mind.
pretty much par for the course where Democrats are concerned.

So your response to the Foley scandal is to harken back to scummy actions by a Democrat in the 70's? Kind of like the many mentions of Chappaquiddick we have been hearing.

There must be some corrupt patent clerks from the Roosevelt administration you can dredge up too...

No one is saying Democrats are not capable of being slimy, crooked, corrupt, whatever. But you might think about getting next to the fact that the number of GOP House members that have resigned in disgrace in this century is starting to pile up.

The reality is that more often than not the bad apples in the GOP do resign

Right. First of all Jefferson has not been convicted of anything. Nevertheless, the HOuse Dems voted to strip him of his committee assignments until the investigation of Jefferson is complete. He hasn't been charged with anything.

Compare Jefferson to Republican Congressman Bob Ney--who has PLED GUILTY to corruption charges and has not resigned.

The reality is that more often than not the bad apples in the GOP do resign and the bad apples in the DNC keep getting reelected.