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#194721 - 09/29/06 05:51 PM
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Registered: 03/04/06
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Loc: Orlando
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God ... and to think he set up a database about abused children! Gross me out! I'm sorry he resigned instead of being thrown out!
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#194722 - 09/29/06 08:55 PM
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Porn Jesus
Registered: 01/07/06
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Loc: Portland
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From avn.com:
"WASHINGTON - Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla. a conservative congressman known for his frequent support of anti-porn legislation, resigned from his office today after congressional pages came forward with copies of instant messages of a sexual nature allegedly written by Foley to teenage boys, according to ABCNEWS.com."
Republican + anti-porn crusader + Florida = JACKPOT!
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#194728 - 10/02/06 03:10 PM
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Rob Black's Crack Pipe
Registered: 08/06/06
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Of course the coverup will burn them worse than if they had just handled it properly...Silly politicians!! The Dems were going to take the house anyway...this will get them the Senate! Quote:
GOP, Hastert CONTINUING To Block Foley Probes
by Hunter
Mon Oct 02, 2006 at 01:37:34 PM PDT
This latest round of behavior on the part of the House GOP leadership is astonishing. I don't know what they've got left to hide, but they apparently think it's something big, something worth a continuing stonewall even now, because Dennis Hastert, John Boehner, Tom Reynolds and the other GOP House leaders are trying to put multiple bullets in anything that looks like it even might lead to an actual investigation.
Boehner blocked Pelosi's call for an investigation, instead shunting it to the Ethics Committee which hasn't yet "decided" what they're going to be doing about it; Hastert nobly calls for the DOJ (after an investigation was already announced) to investigate everyone except the House leadership; now Hastert is going to "deal with" the problem according to his own rules, without actual investigation of any sort but the exclusively Republican kind.
Here's the latest statement from Dale Kildee (D-MI), the (only) Democrat on the House Page Board, and he is furious:
In my 21 years as a Member of the House Page Board, every decision has been made on not just a bi-partisan basis but on a non-partisan basis, with our main concern always being the safety and wellbeing of the young teenagers who serve the U.S. House as pages.
I was outraged to learn that the House Republican leadership kept to itself the knowledge of Mr. Foley's despicable behavior toward the House Pages.
I am now equally outraged to learn that Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert announced today that there will be changes in the policies of the House Page program. Once again, I was not informed of the meeting today, nor was I consulted in any way about any proposed changes.
And once again, the House Republican leadership is following the same pattern of unilateral decision-making that caused this problem in the first place in the Mark Foley issue. Speaker Hastert's announcement this afternoon is yet another example of the House Republican leadership being more concerned with finding political cover for themselves than with the safety and wellbeing of the House pages.
You know, this is a very basic issue. The House leadership knew about -- and covered up for -- a child sex predator inside their very building. There's no goddamn "spin" that's going to make that go away. And in talking with other parents, I have to tell you -- anyone who is a parent is out for blood on this one. We can "disagree" over whether or not America should torture prisoners. We can "dispute" whether or not the President should be allowed to classify American citizens as "terrorists" based only on his own say-so, and lock them away without evidence or trial. We can "argue" over whether or not Tom DeLay's money laundering and the money laundering that has a goodly portion of the rest of the Republican House locked in ongoing scandal and indictment was only accidentally criminal, or astonishingly criminal.
But in the end, at the end of it all, you don't FUCKING COVER UP FOR A CHILD SEX PREDATOR. No. Matter. What.
What part of that do these people still not understand? I'm straight-up serious, here -- how do you get to the point where you are that depraved, that you think a man soliciting sexual information and meetings from sixteen year old kids over the internet -- and meeting them in person -- is "just another scandal"? Tony Snow? Brit Hume? Any of you folks, you wanna take that one on?
Hastert had better figure out damn quick that the rest of the country isn't messing around on this one. I don't know exactly how he got his GOP-style version of "morality" so twisted and decomposed that even this doesn't faze him, but he had better at least have the common sense to stand the hell out of the way.
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#194729 - 10/02/06 03:37 PM
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Rob Black's Crack Pipe
Registered: 08/06/06
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Quote:
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., says she was not told about suggestive e-mails that a Florida congressman sent to a 16-year-old former Capitol page, even though she is one of three representatives who oversee the page program. [...]
Several high-ranking House Republicans have known about the e-mails for months, including Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., chairman of the House Page Board.
Late last year, Shimkus met with Foley about the e-mails. But Shimkus never told Capito or the board's other member, Rep. Dale Kildee, D-Mich., about them until Friday, according to all three.
"There's only three of us on the page board. I feel that we should have been informed," Capito said. "I'm absolutely disgusted by what I'm hearing. I was caught totally unaware." [...]
Capito said she would have been very concerned if she had read those e-mails.
"I don't think it would pass the sniff test," she said. "Even asking those questions -- that is not normal between a 52-year-old adult and a 16-year-old. It's not like they're family friends or anything. I think it would raise some serious questions. But I wasn't given that opportunity."
Late last year, Shimkus and former House Clerk Jeff Tandahl met privately with Foley to talk about the e-mails, but did not tell the other House Page Board members or launch an investigation.
http://www.dailymail.com/story/News/+/200610027/Capito+says+she+was+not+told+about+congressman's+e-mails/
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#194732 - 10/03/06 04:26 PM
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Rob Black's Crack Pipe
Registered: 08/06/06
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NRCC head Tom Reynolds Brings "Prop" Children To Shield Himself From Foley Questions
by Hunter
Tue Oct 03, 2006 at 03:54:52 PM PDT
Via Buffalo Geek and Jane Hamsher, who have the YouTube video, NRCC Head Tom Reynolds is facing a barrage of questions about what he knew in the Foley scandal, when he knew it, and why he didn't do anything about it other than passing it off to Dennis Hastert.
So today he held a news conference, in which he rented out a daycare center in order to surround himself with small children to talk about on Foley's sexual predation in the halls of Congress.
Even the reporters couldn't believe the rancidity of it:
Reporter: Congressman, do you mind asking the children to leave the room so we can have a frank discussion of this, because it's an adult topic. It just doesn't seem appropriate to me.
Reynolds: I'll take your questions, but I'm not going to ask any of my supporters to leave. [...]
Reporter: Who are the children, Congressman? Who are these children?
Reynolds: Pardon me?
Reporter: Who are these children?
Reynolds: Well, a number of them are from the community. There are several of the "thirtysomething" set that are here and uh I've known them and I've known their children as they were born.
Reporter: Do you think it's appropriate for them to be listening to the subject matter though?
Reynolds: Sir, I'll be happy to answer your questions, I'm still, uh...
Hiding behind children. Literally, in this case, holding them up to shield himself from the questions the reporters were trying to ask.
I'm looking at this point for one man in the entire Republican leadership with the integrity of a fleabitten stray dog. I'm still looking for that one man.
DAILY KOS
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