Comments on: GOP Leaders Knew About Foley Page Solicitations for Months

By: rightlinx.com » Blog Archive » Hastert Urged to Resign by The Washington Times

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:01:08 +0000

[...] As early as last Saturday, the respected James Joyner at Outside the Beltway said “Absent some incredibly good explanation, Hastert and Boehner need to go.” [...]

By: jim

jim — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:56:23 +0000

I'd like to thank the writer of this article, for having the intellectual honesty to declare that if Hastert and Boehner really did cover this up, then they need to go post-haste.

As for all the other possible scandals: I'm for a lie-detector test of everyone in Congress, for everythign in Congress. I doubt that Congress will vote for such a bill. Just as I find it unlikely they'll give themselves a pay cut.

But THIS situation is definitely to be looked into. It appears to be a case where a mature man showing predatory tendencies was left in a position of power, because it was convenient to other members of his party. And the possibility of there being other scandals, does not change this case being a very, very bad thing.

By: madmatt

madmatt — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:42:32 +0000

Spin rethugs, spin!!!!
Its nice to see that the RNC has already moved onto the important issue of what to do with Foleys campaign cash!

By: Anderson

Anderson — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:05:38 +0000

The obvious answer is they called Cardinal Law for advice.

Obviously.

By: Bandit

Bandit — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:47:16 +0000

The obvious answer is they called Cardinal Law for advice.

By: dave

dave — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:41:43 +0000

Speaker Hastert,
If one of these pages were your teenage son, would have you sat on the information? Would you be satisfied with the actions so far? When did the Republican leadership stop covering up sexual harrassment of minors?

By: go1

go1 — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:20:21 +0000

Of all the people you mention, only one did anything illegal sexually with someone underage(Studds), and he did it in 1973 (33-34 years ago). Get something more current . . . like these examples: http://www.armchairsubversive.com/

If you want to pick any person who ever did ANYTHING illegal, we may as well list all the Congressmen in the last 100 years on both sides. Lying, being a coward, being a drunk, even stealing, is nothing compared to being a sexual predator of children in my mind. Anybody helping to cover this up should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.

By: gil

gil — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:54:11 +0000

Dennis.

Nice try to change the subject. It will not work.

Let's not be disingenuous and pretend that the Republican or Democratic leaderships will not go the extra mile to "protect" a secure Congressional district. The question here Dennis, is to what extent can a Political Party do that, and still claim "moral" superiority over the other side.

Republicans have consistently claimed the higher ground when it comes to morals..... After this can they any more?

This is not about Clinton, Kennedy, or Franks any more than it is about Duke Cunningham, Tom Delay, John Cornyn, and so on. This is about Congressman Foley's brake of trust, and the way the Republican leadership has reacted to the problem so far.

In my opinion the Republican Party is presented with a rather clear opportunity to demonstrate why they claim to be superior in their morals. Have their leadership resign, if after a clear bi-partisan investigation evidence is found that the entire sordid story was known by key Republicans that could have put morals above political gain, and did not.

If the Republicans can't get around to do this, then I believe they should stop talking about Clinton's BJ once and for all it would ring rather hollow.

By: G.A. Phillips

G.A. Phillips — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 17:03:46 +0000

Lets look at the reasons for this type of sickness, there it is, I can see it, looks just like 50 years of a godless liberal culture! From what I have seen on the news today, of what the leadership new a few months ago was more of homosexual emails rights issue then a dysfunctional homosexual criminal emails issue.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:53:06 +0000

Looking for wiggle room (RiverRat) by quibbling over the fact that the teenaged boy was 16 at the time seems pretty shallow given the outrage over Monica Lewinsky, a consenting adult. Also, given the fact that this man was noted in a St. Petersburg newspaper at the time of the Clinton/Lewinsky affair as being 'outraged' and 'shocked' by Clinton's so-called 'depravity' lends an extremely hypocritical edge to this story. And remember, this was a Congressman who was head of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children. It doesn't get any worse than this.

By: dennis

dennis — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 13:00:33 +0000

And while we are busing stringing up the Republican leadership for doing nothing about this, can we string up the Democratic leadership for continuing to let Ted Kennedy stay in office, despite his invovlement in a manslaughter case; Barney Franks, despite his lover's running a sex ring out of his house; and could we finally admit that Bill Clinton committed perjury and probably should not have cheated on his wife with someone young enough to be his daughter? And then, can we remember that Foley hasn't been convicted or even charged with anything yet?

By: Paul S.

Paul S. — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 07:30:20 +0000

Denny Hastart and John Boehner two supporters of the Clinton impeachment hearings did nothing while a standing congressmen "cybered" with a minor...

And to think Roger Rosenblatt thought the age of irony died five years ago.

By: Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator

Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 05:19:01 +0000

GOP leaders knew of Foley e-mail in '05

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Rep. Thomas Reynolds, head of the House Republican election effort, said Saturday he told Speaker De...

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 01:28:58 +0000

Wow, River Rat, did you take lessons from the Clinton School of Legal Justifications for Pedophelia?

What cesspool of moral relativism do you come from?

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:16:47 +0000

Besides the reprehensible conduct on the part of Foley, I think this does call into question the wisdom of the GOP house re-election efforts. St. Pete newspaper apparently had the emails last November. If the house new this last spring, then they should have pushed to replace Foley in the election. Why they didn't and why the newspaper held on to the story are two good questions.

In all of this, the kindest thing you can say is when a republican congressman gets caught going after young boys he at least has the decency to resign. The democrats just keep re-electing people like Studds, Studds didn't have the decency to resign and the democrats didn't have the decency to kick him out of office.