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Originally Posted by pan6467
One of the saddest parts is listening to the GOP talking heads cover this up.
Take Limbaugh for instance, how he keeps claiming it was just one page, how "there was no true sex involved", how it was with 1 18 yr old page, and blah blah blah.
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Wow. I don't even know where to begin here, as everything you just said is flat-out wrong.
Either you don't listen to Limbaugh, or you are getting some really lame talking points from Daily KOS. Or both. Limbaugh has from the beginning repeatedly condemned Foley's actions. So has Hannity, so has Boortz. It's disingenuous of you to say otherwise. The same goes for the GOP leadership. Foley's actions were condemned immediately - especially by Bush.
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"Asked about the scandal, Mr. Bush said, "This is disgusting behavior when a member of Congress betrays the trust of the Congress and the family that sent a young page to serve."
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And so on down the line - the GOP have shunned Foley.
Also, some facts thus far:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion...oley_inves.htm
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"The first thing to say is that there is no evidence that Speaker Dennis Hastert or anyone else in the Republican leadership knew anything about the sexually explicit instant messages until they were posted on abcnews.com on September 29. Within hours, Mark Foley resigned from the House of Representatives. Thus there was no coverup of the IMs. And there certainly have been no admissions, as Democrat Patty Wetterling running in the Sixth District of Minnesota charged in an ad, that the Republican leaders have admitted covering up improper sexually explicit behavior.
That said, there remain questions about whether Republican leaders responded properly to the charges made earlier that Foley had been sending "overly friendly" but not sexually explicit E-mails to former pages. None of the IMs that we know of were sent to current pages, for whom Congress has custodial responsibility, and some of them apparently were sent to former pages when they were 18 or older. Hastert has said that John Shimkus, the lead member of the bipartisan page board, talked to Foley and told him to stop all questionable contact with the pages. So far, so good. But there is the question of whether the leaders or other members had other knowledge of possibly improper conduct by Foley and what, if anything, they did about it.
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And then, if you'd like to talk about how unbalanced things are:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.as...20061012b.html
http://www.mrc.org/realitycheck/2006/fax20061011.asp
And the witch hunt now for gay Republicans: (from the party, BTW, who is all about gays having their privacy and "coming out" when the individual chooses, and not outed by an outside entity. Yeah, nice)
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q...VjM2ZjODIzNjI=
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/orego...820.xml&coll=7