Text 23570, 68 rader
Skriven 2006-10-05 19:51:43 av Gary Braswell (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 23568 av John Massey (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: FoleyGate
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John Massey -> John Hull wrote:

 JM> "John Hull -> All" <1:379/1.99> wrote in message
 JM> news:22192$POLITICS@JamNNTPd...
 JH>> Much has been made the last couple of days about the fall from
 JM> 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
 JM> 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
 JM> 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

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


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

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

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

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

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

According to Fox News, one of the IM's details Foley and a page(they did not
say if it was a current or former one, or the age) masturbating together while
exchanging IMs.

If so and the page was a minor, in some states that is a crime. I don't know
about in DC.

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