Who watches the watchers
When news first broke about Florida Representative Mark Foley's attempted sexual seduction of his underage male staffers, the GOP leadership was quick to spring into action, denying everything and branding this news as a baseless attack and partisan lying.Next, GOP leadership began falling all over itself, each trying louder than the other to express complete shock and outrage about learning of their party-mate Foley's actions.
To top it all off, in 2003 Foley held a press conference to denounce Democratic activists for engaging in a "repulsive" campaign to tag him with the "slur" of being gay.
Enter the truth. Now that the Florida Republican's sick exchanges turned out to be true after all, he has resigned in shame. What's more, it turns out that his fellow Republican partymates had warned him to stop this behavior last year. That means they not only knew about it for some time, but were completely aware of his behavior while allowing him to be co-chair of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus.Once again, the facts clang loudly when impacting Republican neocon rhetoric.
posted by zblog at
2:57 PM
1 Comments:
Updates
Republican majority leader John Boehner said the Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert had assured him months ago the matter had been taken care of. "It's in his corner. It's his responsibility," Boehner, R-Ohio, said in an interview on radio station WLW in Cincinnati. There's the fact. The talking point is that Hastert and other GOP leaders are stating that they knew nothing about Foley's pedophile habits.
Oh, but wait, there's more.
It turns out that the Republican members of the page board (that would be the very group charged with making sure that nothing bad happens to the children and young adults working as House pages) did know about Foley's criminal exchanges, but did not act on them or bring it up in committee because they feared that letting the truth out would harm the Republican party.
Enter President Bush. He issued a statement today saying he is "shocked and dismayed" at the disclosure of an e-mail scandal involving teenage congressional pages. That's right - his well-thought reaction was to worry about this crime being revealed, not about the safety of the teenagers placed under the control of the Republican pedophile.
If these reactions sound shocking, they shouldn't. Over the past 8 or so years, ever since the neocon philosophy was embraced by the Republican party, THE PARTY is all that matters. THE PARTY is more important than the welfare of children, than soldiers, than the economy, than saving jobs, than healthcare, or America's actions abroad. All that matters is accumulating and holding on to power, for power's sake.
Just so freaking sad.
By
zblog, at 1:05 PM
Post a Comment
<< Home