Rep. Foley
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- mrdobolina
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politic…
Bye Bye Hastert! We'll miss you.
- mrdobolina0
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS…
Look at the size of Hastert's noggin.
- k0na_an0k0
*checks watch
right on time
- Seff0
go team NAMBLA
- mrdobolina0
kona, how do you feel about this?
- mrdobolina0
If you are just trying to be disagreeable, go start a new thread about Ricky Bobby or something.
- k0na_an0k0
kona, how do you feel about this?
mrdobolina
(Oct 3 06, 07:52)why do you ask? does it matter that much to you what i think?
- CALLES0
well he likes em young he kinda gave us that impression... and oh yeah young boys that is nice and tender
- k0na_an0k0
If you are just trying to be disagreeable, go start a new thread about Ricky Bobby or something.
mrdobolina
(Oct 3 06, 07:53)well, if you weren't such an asshat sounding like you need your diaper changed, you could have asked the right question of what did i mean, to which i would have replied 'just in time for the primaries', it's about that time for all the skeletons to come out of the closet.
i love this time of year.
but no, you had to be a baby with a diaper full of poop about it. so i end this conversation.
*curtsies
- mrdobolina0
you have to explain what you mean, your cerebral style of comedy and sarcasm isn't always detectable to us mere asshats.
- mrdobolina0
Plus the fact that you were riding my jock like a bicycle yesterday, I thought you were still suffering from your bad attitude. Sorry if I was mistaken. No hard feelings.
- harlequino0
Finger Points Boner at the Speaker
- mrdobolina0
Jon Stewart on this thing. hahahaha
- johndiggity0
pot, kettle, black.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/2006…
- garett_west0
johndiggity. GREAT, link.
Some key points worth discussing...
"But it didn't take long at all after Foley's resignation for the Democrats to call for an investigation of the entire Republican leadership in the House, charging that GOP stalwarts knew early on that Foley, as they like to say in the rehab business, had a "problem."
Democrats have begun losing their once-significant lead in the polls, and a mere five weeks remain until the midterm elections. Is this scandal the Democrats' own "October Surprise," meant to throw the GOP into a tailspin shortly before the vote?
Recent polls show Democrats aren't doing very well on several key issues. What better way than a good, old-fashioned sex scandal to get people's minds off such things as the importance of winning the war in
Iraq, our ongoing vulnerability to terrorist attack and the necessity of keeping the Bush economic boom going?Despite this, the immediate take by Democrats and much of the mainstream media was that this was a classic example of Republican hypocrisy -- talking "morals" and "values" while all the time shielding a child predator. But it was nothing of the kind.
Ah... mrdobolina... reporting only the news that pushes his agenda since 2002.
The one way street just got a little more narrow.
Good day sir.
*leaves thread as it is now going to get ugly as mrdobolina tries to get it back into anti-Bush-Rebublican status.
- mrdobolina0
That's shady as hell.
At least he is gone now, creepy that he was around this long.
- spk0
dirty f*ckin' republicon hypocrites...
- garett_west0
Wait wait... this was too good not to post.
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If anything, the episode reveals the Democrats' hypocrisy about their own behavior. The fact that Foley resigned virtually within minutes of being told that ABC News had copies of his salacious e-mails and text messages indicates he at least felt shame for his actions. Can the same be said for Democrats?
Sadly, it doesn't seem so. How else can you explain the following?
In 1983, then-Democratic Rep. Gerry Studds of Massachusetts was caught in a similar situation. In his case, Studds had sex with a male teenage page -- something Foley hasn't been charged with.
Did Studds express contrition? Resign? Quite the contrary. He rejected Congress' censure of him and continued to represent his district until his retirement in 1996.
In 1989, Rep. Barney Frank (news, bio, voting record), also of Massachusetts, admitted he'd lived with Steve Gobie, a male prostitute who ran a gay sex-for-hire ring out of Frank's apartment. Frank, it was later discovered, used his position to fix 33 parking tickets for Gobie.
What happened to Frank? The House voted 408-18 to reprimand him -- a slap on the wrist. Today he's an honored Democratic member of Congress, much in demand as a speaker and "conscience of the party."
In 2001,
President Clinton, who had his own intern problem, commuted the prison sentence of Illinois Rep. Mel Reynolds, who had sex with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer and pressured her to lie about it. (Reynolds also was convicted of campaign spending violations.)HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!
Hypocrisy STRIKES AGAIN!
- mrdobolina0
garett, I was unaware about all of this other stuff.
quit being such a partisan toady.
If people are guilty of things, regardless of party, they should be dealt with in my opinion.
That is a major difference between me and you.
So after all of that, what is your point? That everyone is guilty of covering up for Foley? If so, clean house then. What exactly are you defending?
- garett_west0
"garett, I was unaware about all of this other stuff."
Then maybe you should stop talking shit about things you know nothing about. Does that sound familiar? I think so.
Hypocrisy strikes again. It is strong with you young Highwalker... use the force.
Clean house? Ok. Lets start with the 3 Dems on that list and their cover up partners still in office.
- mrdobolina0
then pursue it.
How do these other things relate to what is going on right now?
It is like you are giving Foley and the rest of these guys a free pass because the "dirty democrats didnt do anything about it" or "they are guilty of the same thing".
If it outrages you, voice it.