I understand you, tho. You still feel a bit of jealousy about the Contract With America. You remain anguished over Florida 2000. These and other matters propel your anger.

You have only yourselves to blame, Democrats and liberals, for your defeats.

What will you do if you lose AGAIN?

Word up – Republicans aren’t the only ones being watched.

Nowadays the October surprise has been dumbed down by Democrats to a repititious and recyclable weekly event.

Everyone will get hauled in for questioning on this one. And that especially includes the instigators.

Follow the money.

The party’s going to turn on us over this… next they’ll want federal laws on the internet made into law for the states to raise the age to 18 for age of consent.

We need to move on… fast.
If they investigate everyone in the House and Senate… there will not be many left… trust me.

I apologize for ranting but I am fed up with the incompetence and corruption on BOTH sides of the aisle. How about for once we do something about it?

Just so you know, I live in Speaker Hastert’s district and have not only voted for him but have attended some of his fudraisers. I will NOT be voting for him on November 7th.

BTW, I think Republicans have cozied up too much with religion. It appears they’re acting more and more like the Catholic Church when it comes to pedophilies.

http://www.congressionalbadboys.com/teenagers.htm

I think what Rory is giving us here is the internet equivalent of a shit-eating grin.

Foley was “stupid and out of control.” Not an alleged lawbreaker, of course; the illegality attached to ‘vile’ behavior is only of consequence when the perpetrator is a sitting Democratic president.

Rory reminds us that
Yes, the GOP will run on the issues regarding the war on terror, which DOES include Iraq.

Yes, the clever Rethugs will snicker away as the RNC ignores the illegal behavior of its own (including the executive branch) and plays the fear card to its ignorant, frightened, bigoted faithful.

Don’t forget the context of this, folks. The Rethugs just pushed through pro-torture, anti-habeus corpus legislation that gives our illustrious gov’t the power to declare anyone an Enemy of the State. Sure, some cowardly Dems jumped on the bandwagon, but they didn’t have the votes to stop it, anyway.

So total Republican control of our government has led us into disaster in Iraq, disaster in our economy (for most), disaster (for some) in the Delta, and now it’s resulting in the effective trashing of the Constitution.

But at least we have Rory to remind us of how funny all this is, and how he’s so underwhelmed by it all that he could just take a nap.

Rory, I hope you’re writing your little funnies from somewhere in the Iraqi desert, or from the mountains of Afghanistan, or from a toxic mud pit in the Ninth Ward of NOLA. If you’re facing the consequences of all this hilarity, well, you’re entitled to laugh away. Otherwise, you’re just another lame-ass piece of shit hiding his cowardice behind a thin veil of smugness.

Foley shares his feelings about rhe Clenis in The Saint Petersburg Times:

“It’s vile,” said Rep. Mark Foley, R-West Palm Beach. “It’s more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction.”

This is NOT about politics. It
is NOT about Congress. It is NOT about homosexuality. It is NOT about how good Foley was or wasn’t.

If those children were brave enough to come forward knowing they would be smeared across America and revictimized again and again by media and individuals, is it asking too much of us, adults to honor that courage and face this head on for what it really is?

It is simply against the law.
Hiding it is simply against the law.
Not reporting it is against the law in every single state.
A bank robber can rob a bank and then we find out he is in congress so we tell him as Governor Bush did, I feel bad for you and I hope you get help?
Change the laws and we can debate this until heck freezes over, until then, great crimes have been committed and it has nothing to do with Congress, Demo, GOP, perceptions and levels of guilt.

These kids reported a crime. Lets not degrade them furhter just as Folely tried by dressing it up differant.

That makes us, like him in many ways.

And Foley’s actions are just the beginning of the scandal. That is the act of an individual. The subsequent lying and coverup by the various Republicans in leadership positions is what has really turned this from late night fodder to a full blown scandal.

Imagine how you’d feel, Jay, if your son was being solicited by one of his teachers at a similar age.

Oh it seems clear to you? tyfoc and Rory both made comments about Gerry Studds. It seems clear to me that Factcheck was responding to comments about Studds when he wrote:

I must have missed the part where consentual gay sex between two people above the age of consent was illegal or even unethical.

Obviously, Jay, there is a legal distinction depending on the laws of the state. It seems clear to me, however, that fact was responding to Rory’s assertion that there’s some kind of equivalence between Foley and Barney Frank as if just being gay is what this scandal is all about.

Anyone with half a brain and no ideological axe to grind could have seen that. Apparently you can’t. Hence: idiot.

I don’t disagree with you. However, you didn’t answer the question.

Oliver is talking about the kid being a ‘child’ and other people keep calling Foley a ‘pedophile.’

Yet, Factcheck refers to Gerry Studds sex with a 17 year old male page as merely homosexual sex because the kid was at the age of consent.

Well, the fact of the matter is, 16 is the age of consent in DC and most states in the country. So is Foley merely gay, or is he a pedophile?

Again, I am not any way excusing Foley’s predatory sexual advances towards a 16 year old. It’s pretty sick. But then so is a 36 year old man having sex with a 17 year old kid.

Everything, everything, everything is a bureaucracy in Lib World.

Hey, how about this line from “Airplane” -

“I like my coffee black…like my men!”