Foley: We Will Make You Successful…
From the Washington Post: Often implicit in the chats is an exchange of professional advancement in exchange for sex that plays on the allure of power that Foley used to…
Read moreIs this for real?
From the bowels of Republican revisionism, we find this gem from Mary Mostert: The charge here is not that Mark Foley actually DID anything inappropriate to a minor. He, and…
Read moreWill Foley turn to Scientology?
Via BoingBoing and citynoise.org: So, apparently Foley has gone to a detox center in Clearwater, Fl. What’s in Clearwater? Scientologists! So, I followed my intuition and did a little Googling,…
Read moreRehab isn’t Repentance
When one is a public figure who has behaved badly and been caught, the standard strategy seems to be to check into rehab after making a tearful confession about alcohol…
Read morePredatorgate: Sick, Sick, Sick
Plausible deniability on Hastert’s part? I think so, since Foley was warned to behave appropriately with pages. Of course, Ann Coulter is convinced it’s all a big political ploy timed…
Read moreHastert and Reynolds: Too late for damage control
The political blame-tossing between Tom Reynolds and Dennis Hastert over Mark Foley’s foolishness is becoming a partisan political morass. While these guys toss blame back and forth at each other…
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