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Skriven 2006-10-05 18:47:30 av John Massey (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 23550 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: FoleyGate
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"John Hull -> All" <1:379/1.99> wrote in message
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 JH> Much has been made the last couple of days about the fall from grace of
 JH> Rep. Foley from Florida.  The liberals (here, and in the media, etc.)
 JH> are screaming bloody murder about how it's all Denny Hastert's fault for
 JH> not doing more to corral Foley.  Let's remember that Hastert was the
 JH> first to call for a complete FBI investigation of everybody, including
himself.

 JH> First of all, based on everything I've heard so far (from all sides),
 JH> Foley did nothing overt enough to warrant arrest

Sorry John, They did it to just isn't good enough.
I have to agree with what Boortz had to say on this.


Essentially we have learned thus far that some of Foley's actions were an
open secret on the Hill.  We've also learned that Foley actually wanted to
retire, but the House Republican Leadership, eager to hang on to power,
convinced him to stay and run again.

Nice going, guys. You knew he was a gay man preying on male pages .. and you
urge him to stay in the race?  Holding on to power in Washington is that
important to you?

Now we're finding out that Mark Foley actually tried to visit the dorm that
the House Pages sleep in.  The story is that Foley showed up drunk at the
dorm some time back and that the Capitol Police stopped him from entering.
It's not known how long ago this was or how many times Foley showed up.
Are we expected to believe that the Republican leadership didn't know of
Foley's attempts to get into the dorm?  Come on!  Are you going to believe
that?  And by the way ... ditto for the Democrats, but the difference is
that Democrats would eventually use the information to damage Republicans.
Republicans could have used the information to clean their house, protect
the pages and themselves .. but they did not do it.
What are we going to find out next?  We know that Foley's computers and
e-mails are being examined further...expect an avalanche of bad publicity.

All of this is bad news for the Republicans, whose leadership couldn't have
handled this more badly.  We now know that Foley was chatting up pages as
far back as the mid-nineties....how long before we find out that it was more
than just talk?  Are we supposed to believe that Foley never once in the
last several years did anything more than send dirty instant messages and
naughty e-mails?  Hopefully, but you never know.

Just when you think it can't get any worse...it does.  Next Tuesday makes it
four weeks until Election Day, and with each passing scandal, Nancy Pelosi
is gearing up to receive her Speaker's gavel.  If that happens, the
Republicans will have done it to themselves.

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