Rep. Foley
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- mrdobolina0
She was of legal age...
Ponyboy, do you know who Richard Mellon Scaife is?
- spk0
the thing is the democrats dont think they were appointed by god to run the country ... and claim moral superiority.
f*ck foley and f*ck the sanctimonious hypocritical republicans....
what would jesus spend money on weapons and war (eg republicans) or helping the poor and children (democrats)?
i guess we know who the party of god is...
- PonyBoy0
for those of you with children, neices or nephews... in reference to the 'example' that old Billy C. set that you all seem so fond of joking about...
... will you tell them that it's okay to cheat on your wife, lie under oath publicly and get away with it?
See... it's the lack of the morality that gets to me about some of you... You live in your mid-twenties state of mind that 'if it doesn't bother me' then it must be 'okay' or a 'conscience personal decision'... and you don't think about those who 'follow the rules' (citizens who abide peacefully)... or those who are still 'learning the rules' (young people who crave to be liked by their peers)...
- garett_west0
Here theblindone, in case you missed this earlier.
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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.)
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I guess posting this again must mean I'm really all for Foley eh!?! I bet you wish the polling systems would just put a 'vote for everyone who's a Democrat' check box on your form eh? Would make things so much easier for you.
- Seff0
hillary would drive you to fat chicks too pony
- TheBlueOne0
Amazing..there you go again. Clinton.
Republicans have been in power for six years now, and you can't even take responsibility for yourselves. Still need to blame the big bad Clinton. He must stalk your dreams with his mighty Penis of Liberalism.
Sad really.
- garett_west0
what would jesus spend money on weapons and war (eg republicans) or helping the poor and children (democrats)?
i guess we know who the party of god is...
spk
(Oct 3 06, 13:06)Haha. I love how you lump ALL Republicans into one group and ALL Democrats into one group like that. SO general of you, generally speaking of course.
You want to know what the problem with this country is? See the post above.
- TheBlueOne0
it's the lack of the morality that gets to me about some of you...
PonyBoy
(Oct 3 06, 13:07)
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And you're saying this in defense of an alcoholic pedophile and his fellow Republican congressmen who for potentially five years covered up his actions?I just want to have my facts straight.
Awesome set of morals you got there.
- PonyBoy0
yeah, like disgracing the halls of congress by sneaking out of a vote to IM a sixteen year old boy about getting a blowjob while the congress votes on the Iraq war.
I think you're "disgracing the office" meme is now officially dead.
Try again.
Paybacks a bitch.
TheBlueOne
(Oct 3 06, 13:01)
---what the hell is your problem, blueONe? 'paybacks a bitch, trya gain'...
... are you twelve?
I opened my first statement w/the fact that Foley IS DISGUSTING AND BELONGS IN PRISON...
'try again'?
what should I try again?
Are you upset that I'm pointing out your hypocritical, one-sided, self-serving partisanship?
- TheBlueOne0
No, if I was twelve I would type parts of my paragraphs in all caps to emphasize some silly point. When you get older you learn how ridiculous that looks.
- mrdobolina0
newt gingrich divorced his third wife on her deathbed.
they are all greasy bastards, no doubt. but we don't live in 89, we live in 2006.
pony, do you know who richard mellon scaife is?
- PonyBoy0
blueOne... do you even read?
"And you're saying this in defense of an alcoholic pedophile and his fellow Republican congressmen who for potentially five years covered up his actions?"
I've yet to back that man up in my posts...
... you are so far left in your brain that you're not even willing to read.
- woodyBatts0
PonyBoy, I agree with you about Clinton. Frankly he lied under oath, and though I understand that those were personal matters of his I think ultimately it opened up the door to have politicians lie directly to our faces.
I personally feel he deserved a censure.
But that crusade was launched by the conservative right, who after siding with the christian right took the moral high ground. Would you agree that this is why the left is attacking so vigorously?
But in all, isn't this different then Clinton, Frank and Stubbs in regards that this was a kid as opposed to a grown man or woman?
Personally I feel that where others did not do things that were 'right' or 'ethical' they did not neccesarrily do anything that could be concieved as evil.
- PonyBoy0
pony, do you know who richard mellon scaife is?
mrdobolina
(Oct 3 06, 13:13)nope.
- TheBlueOne0
I actually thought my handy turn of phrase about Clinton haunting the Republicans with his Giant Penis of Liberalism pretty funny. I need to remember that one...
- TheBlueOne0
.. you are so far left in your brain that you're not even willing to read.
PonyBoy
(Oct 3 06, 13:13)
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I am so far left I'm right.
- spk0
garrett - your president is reponsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent men women and children in iraq... tens of thousands.
hang your head in shame for supporting the murderer.
- PonyBoy0
"newt gingrich divorced his third wife on her deathbed.
they are all greasy bastards, no doubt. but we don't live in 89, we live in 2006."
YOU SEE?!! I agreeee!!!!!
dobs.. you know where my minds at on most of this shit... I agree THEY'RE all disgusting... FOLEY IS FILTH... HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES MUST I SAY THAT, BLUEONE?
MORE CAPS FOR BLUEONE... MORE CAPS FOR BLUEONE!!
Clinton can't keep his NOSE out of the limelight... thus I must bring him up to show what a partisan loon you are, blueDork.
- woodyBatts0
Dobs,
Good call on Schaife
Just looked him up...wow.