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By Tom Ball
10/05/2006 12:47:10 PM EST

First, let's get one thing straight. Gays, media, and Democrats are to blame for Mark Foley's and the GOP leadership's reprehensible behavior.

Well... that's the argument being foisted upon the public by 'personal responsibility' Republicans.

And they're probably right.

Clearly it was the media that forced GOP Congressman Mark Foley to spend all those years repeatedly seeking sexual fulfillment with children.

Clearly it was gays who strong-armed the Republican leadership into ignoring the initial evidence of lurid impropriety in order to preserve their majority status in the House.

Clearly it was the Democrats who used their well-known mind-control techniques to thwart the Republican leadership's efforts to come clean with the GOPedophile scandal at a less politically sensitive time way back when GOP leaders first learned about it.

Clearly it was gays, the media and the Democrats who caused Republicans' to do the wrong thing, embrace power, and protect their favorite pedophile at the expense of their honor, integrity, and dignity.

Dems, gays, and Media should be ashamed.

Oh well, at least some Republican's choose to blame other Republican's -- even if they don't accept any of the responsibility themselves. For Example, Kirk Fordham says he warned Speaker Dennis Hastert about Foley's escapades over three years ago while House Majority Whip Roy Blunt points his stinky finger squarely at Hastert as well.

And the pages? Well, they say the GOP staffers "Have known for over 11 years about what was going on and chose to do nothing."

But how could they attack Hastert when he actually had a plan of action in place -- just in case;)

So perhaps Mr. Hastert can explain what he meant during an interview with his hometown newspaper, The Beacon News, when he said:

"What we did is exactly what we had planned to do if there was this type of situation,"

There was a plan in place?  I'd certainly like to hear why, if Mr. Hastert only learned about Foley's predilections last Friday, did he have a plan in place for "this type of situation"?

Could there be others? Or was Denny just waiting for the day of a Foley reckoning?

Come on. Give Hastert a break. After all, he did say he would retire IF he thought it would further the GOP power grab.

Embattled House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) has told conservative activist Paul Weyrich that he would resign if it would help the Republicans, Congressional Quarterly is reporting.

"He said if he thought that resigning would be helpful to the Republicans maintaining the majority, he would do it," Weyrich said in an interview. "But he did not think it would helpful for Republicans."

Are you sure, Dennis? Think again Mr. Personal Responsibility.

One thing you can be sure of is that there will be much more of this to come.


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For the last six years, (none / 0)
they have spewed their hatred and planted their seeds.  Now they have a garden full of weeds they themselves have sown.  Just because the property rights have transferred overnight to their party doesn't mean that it was the Democrats who trashed the garden.

To use another metaphor, the chickens have come home to roost.

by DCDemocrat on 10/06/2006 09:00:58 AM EST

Hang in there, you lying old fart (none / 0)
Please, do not resign. Plase, don't allow the other scumbags to resign either.

There is nothing better for our side, and for the country, that for all you dirty old men to hang in there, like an Albatross around the neck of you sick-ass party.

When Fascism Comes To America, It Will Come Draped in The Flag and Carrying a Cross.

by winterfire6 on 10/06/2006 11:17:17 AM EST

One of the weirdest memes (none / 0)
also circulating in broadcast is that "this would never have happened when DeLay was running things.  Hastert is in over his head."

Seriously.

Guess what, pundits. It WAS going on under DeLay's "leadership"--with the Ethics Committee effectively castrated.  (Guess Foley wasn't a "member.")

(Sorry, for the snark, but this whole Republican mess is just too, too, too symptomatic of all their incompetence.  They can't even cover up a scandal "decently"!!!)

Great post, Tom.

Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. FDR

by btyarbro on 10/06/2006 11:33:06 AM EST

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