Comments on: What a Twit

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:13:14 +0000

Let’s be honest as adults, Foley has a problem and it didn’t just start. This has been a problem the guy’s entire life and anyone who was around for any significant length of time, especially in a social setting would figure it out.

It happens in high schools and the priesthood and scouting, not just in Congress. There is no way that the leadership of the party didn’t know about it, and any Democrats he met socially should also have noticed it. You can’t convince me that the Washington press corps didn’t know what was going on.

This isn’t about sex, it is about power, specifically abuse of power.

As you mention, Michael, they didn’t tell the Republican Congresswoman on the Page Board about this. As a mother she would have gone ballistic, just like Nancy Pelosi did. Women get it, the Republican leadership doesn’t.

Andante, Joe Lieberman is the only “Democrat” the Republicans are apt to protect, and something like this requires protection.

By: andante

andante — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:19:37 +0000

There may well be some Democrats with “page problems”; I seem to recall reading somewhere that there were some other shoes about to drop.

Still, I’d be surprised if the shoes were Democratic – if there are Democrats with similar problems, you’d think the Republicans would have plastered the news across the globe by now. We’ll see.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:00:31 +0000

Most of the Bu$hevik Bloviators seem to be following the Coulternator’s lead and bringing up Barney Frank, who is completely irrelevant in this context and who was never censured by the House. They should be mentioning Studds, except that his case doesn’t really help theirs, either–the relationship was consensual and with someone over the age of consent. (Still creepy, yes, but not illegal.) And as you point out, when we found out about it, we did censure him and took steps to make sure that it would not happen again. Steps that the Rubber-Stamp Republicans, in their eagerness to hold on to their power and burnish their image as the Party of Values, ignored or circumvented.

By: Mustang Bobby

Mustang Bobby — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:59:56 +0000

This is no surprise. The Republicans will grasp at any straw — or straw man — to mitigate the damage and justify their moral relativism. The fact that the comparison is both irrelevant and unequal makes no difference to them. They’ve done the same with the lies leading up to Iraq: Mr. Bush started a war based on lies and has killed over 2,700 American soldiers and untold number of Iraqis. But Bill Clinton got a blow job.