Comments on: Hastert and Reynolds: Too late for damage control http://politics.drumsnwhistles.com/2006/09/hastert-and-reynolds-too-late-for-damage-control/ rants and ramblings of a political junkie Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:15:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: DrumsNWhistles http://politics.drumsnwhistles.com/2006/09/hastert-and-reynolds-too-late-for-damage-control/comment-page-1/#comment-4 DrumsNWhistles Sun, 01 Oct 2006 07:51:17 +0000 http://drumsnwhistles.com/politics/2006/09/hastert-and-reynolds-too-late-for-damage-control/#comment-4 bonica_babe, Foley's sexual orientation has been one of the worst-kept secrets in US government. Ordinarily I'd shrug and say "who cares?", but having suffered through far too much unwarranted righteousness with the Monica scandal and now having to tolerate the Bush revisionist party line on Iraq, I am no longer willing to overlook any hypocritical act on the part of the "family values" party. There's lots and lots more to say about this one, I think. DnW bonica_babe,

Foley’s sexual orientation has been one of the worst-kept secrets in US government. Ordinarily I’d shrug and say “who cares?”, but having suffered through far too much unwarranted righteousness with the Monica scandal and now having to tolerate the Bush revisionist party line on Iraq, I am no longer willing to overlook any hypocritical act on the part of the “family values” party.

There’s lots and lots more to say about this one, I think.

DnW

]]> By: bonica_babe http://politics.drumsnwhistles.com/2006/09/hastert-and-reynolds-too-late-for-damage-control/comment-page-1/#comment-3 bonica_babe Sun, 01 Oct 2006 06:37:03 +0000 http://drumsnwhistles.com/politics/2006/09/hastert-and-reynolds-too-late-for-damage-control/#comment-3 Well, there are a few GOP house members who can skip going to the gym for awhile - they'll get plenty of exercise throwing each other under buses. Fortunately, there is a good chance some other shorts - er, shoes - will drop. Most likely there are some other witnesses - the pages affected and their parents. If any of them went directly to Hastert, the cats could come crawling out of the bag. I am curious to cross reference those US reps who knew and didn't act first and foremost to protect the pages (and, incidentally, the reputation of the House of Representatives) and their past statements and actions. For example, what did they have to say about the AMBER law, or the provision to prevent sexual predation over the internet? And have they waxed righteously indignant about Bill Clinton's covering up his activities with Monica Lewinsky? Somebody needs to document whether there are any real family values going on, or just a bunch of posturing politicians. I tried to access the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus web page today to get a list of members, and it came up as "NOT FOUND". Is that just a coincidence or is it damage control? If Rodney Alexander can fire one of his staffers for writing love letters to jailed convicted murderer Scott Peteson (and he did), and if he's concerned enough about internet sexual predation of minors to support a law against it (and he did), then I know he's familiar enough with ethics violations and the law to realize that he shouldn't just pass this off and then forget it. Especially when press reports say that Mark Foley's sexual orientation was an open secret in the House. The false ingenuousness of the House members just doesn't cut it. Caught in a lie here, they will destroy their credibility for any other denial they wish to issue in the future. Well, there are a few GOP house members who can skip going to the gym for awhile – they’ll get plenty of exercise throwing each other under buses. Fortunately, there is a good chance some other shorts – er, shoes – will drop. Most likely there are some other witnesses – the pages affected and their parents. If any of them went directly to Hastert, the cats could come crawling out of the bag.

I am curious to cross reference those US reps who knew and didn’t act first and foremost to protect the pages (and, incidentally, the reputation of the House of Representatives) and their past statements and actions. For example, what did they have to say about the AMBER law, or the provision to prevent sexual predation over the internet? And have they waxed righteously indignant about Bill Clinton’s covering up his activities with Monica Lewinsky? Somebody needs to document whether there are any real family values going on, or just a bunch of posturing politicians.

I tried to access the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus web page today to get a list of members, and it came up as “NOT FOUND”. Is that just a coincidence or is it damage control?

If Rodney Alexander can fire one of his staffers for writing love letters to jailed convicted murderer Scott Peteson (and he did), and if he’s concerned enough about internet sexual predation of minors to support a law against it (and he did), then I know he’s familiar enough with ethics violations and the law to realize that he shouldn’t just pass this off and then forget it. Especially when press reports say that Mark Foley’s sexual orientation was an open secret in the House.

The false ingenuousness of the House members just doesn’t cut it. Caught in a lie here, they will destroy their credibility for any other denial they wish to issue in the future.

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