Tuesday, October 03, 2006
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Foleygate: Sicker and Sicker
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Posted by:
Mary Katharine Ham at
2:24 PM
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Just look at the headline on Drudge:
Foley had online sex while awaiting a vote
The IMs, if you have the stomach for them, are at ABC News. Blech.
Update: Hastert on Limbaugh. Hot Air has audio.
Update: Boehner has sent a letter to the Times to disagree with it:
"Had Speaker Hastert or anyone else in our leadership known about Mr. Foley's despicable conduct, I'm confident the Speaker would have moved to expel Mr. Foley immediately and turn him over to the appropriate authorities," Boehner wrote in a letter to the Editor in response to the Times editorial today calling on Hastert to step down.
Looks like Hastert and Boehner have decided to start swingin'.
Update: Is Boehner playing a couple angles? It's Washington-- of course he is!
Update: Always right on top of the news cycle, Jack Cafferty asks this question: "Did President mislead us into the war in Iraq?" Um, Jack, there's an actual, current Republican-bashing story going on right now. You could go after the leadership and report on something that's not three years old. Always happy to help.
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Hey Editorial Staff:
How about these Republican sex crimes for starters? High Republican morals and standards? What a load! What a bunch of two-faced liars! And this is only A-B! You want everyone to see the rest of the names from C-Z?
Adelphia Communications Corp.: Donated large sums of money to some of the most conservative members of Congress. They are also the first cable company to offer hard-core adult movies to subscribers.
Edison Misla Aldarondo, Republican legislator from Puerto Rico, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for molestation of his daughter and her friend for eight-year period starting when they were 9.
Randal David Ankeney, Republican activist from Colorado, arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a child with force. He faces 6 charges related to getting a 13-year-old girl stoned on pot and then having sex with her. Also accused of sexually assaulting another girl.
Richard Armey (R-Texas), former professor, has been accused by The Dallas Observer of sexually harassing female students.
Bob Barr, Republican Congressman from Georgia. Sponsored the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act, saying "The flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundation of our society, the family unit." Was married three times. Paid for his second wife's abortion. Failed to pay child support to the children of his first two wives and while married to his third and present wife was photographed licking whipped cream off of strippers at his inaugural party.
Merrill Robert Barter, Republican County Commissioner, pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.
Robert Bauman, Republican congressman and anti-gay activist from Maryland, was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
Parker J. Bena, Republican activist and Bush Elector from Virginia, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography (including children as young as 3 years old) on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison and fined $18,000.
William Bennett, Drug Czar under George H. W. Bush, compulsive gambler who has had to wire as much as $1.4 million to cover gambling losses in a 2 month period.
Louis Beres, chairman of the Christian Coalition of Oregon. 3 of his family members accuse him of molesting them when they were pre-teens.
Howard L. Brooks, Republican legislative aide and advisor to a California assemblyman, was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.
John Bolton: George W. Bush's latest Ambassador to United Nations. Corroborated allegations that Mr. Bolton’s first wife, Christina Bolton, was forced to engage in group sex have not been refuted by the State Department.
Mike Bowers Former State Attorney General of Georgia, prosecuted the famous "Bowers vs. Hardwick" case, based on Georgia anti-sodomy laws. Admitted to a 10-year adulterous affair
Andrew Buhr, Republican politician, former committeeman for Hadley Township Missouri, was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.
Jeffrey Buley New York Republican Party's top lawyer, and senior political adviser to Gov. Pataki (R), arrested for assaulting his wife in a drunken rage. They have two young children.
Ted Bundy campaigned for the Republican Party. Infamous serial rapist who murdered 16 women.
Jim Bunn Congressman of Oregon: With his success due in great part to support from the Christian Coalition, Bunn won his congressional seat, then immediately ditched his wife (and mother of his five children), married a staffer, and put his new wife on the state payroll for the unheard-of salary of $97,500.
John Allen Burt, Republican anti-abortion activist from Pensacola, Florida, convicted of sexually molesting a 15 year old girl at the home for troubled girls that he ran
Dan Burton, Republican Congressman from Indiana who, while married, fathered a child by another woman.
George W. Bush, Republican president, accused in a criminal complaint and lawsuit of raping Margie Schoedinger, who later suicided. Accused by Tammy Phillips, a former stripper quoted in the National Enquirer in 2000 saying she had an affair with Bush that had ended in 1999.
Neil Bush, brother or G. W. Bush, in a March 2003 divorce deposition, admitted repeatedly having sex with strange women who just showed up at his room while on an Asian business trip.
John Butler, Republican activist, was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.
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Brando,
Somebody saved the IMs and sat on them for three years, true, but it wasn't Hastert. And I bet it wasn't the pages either.
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Actually, Brit, a lot of people log their IMs. Sometimes, they don't even know they are being saved, and they turn up later.
I know I would always turn on IM logging, even as a kid, because sometimes you wanted to find something that you had talked about with a friend - a link to a website that you forgot, but wanted to show your friends, for example. Many tech savvy teens (and I figure many House pages among that number) would have logging turned on for something unrelated, and could later find the IMs.
Secondly, not only does Foley have internet sex with teens during a House session, but he also invites the kid over for alcohol. That's not exactly toward behavior. One wonders what was happening OTHER than alcohol consumption. |
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The evidence that this isn't a Rathergate is that Foley resigned. He knows he did something sicko.
Though I do think ABC should be a little more forthcoming with the info on where it got these IMs, because apparently someone has been sitting on them for three years. |
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Foley is a very sick man who deserves everything he gets. But...I do have one question about this latest story.
ABC says it now has IMs from 2003, given by former pages. WHO HAS BEEN SITTING ON EVIDENCE OF CRIMES FOR THREE YEARS??? I believe that the GOP should be pressing ABC to identify the sources of the IMs since this person or persons has at least as much culpability in this as the House leadership is alleged to have. |
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Lets all please be careful,
The Foley Scandal – Is this Rossgate
ABC better come up with the Instant Messages and verify that they are not fabricated before they continue this public hanging.
I do not know of anyone that would save their Instant Messages.
If they can be authenticated (which I seriously doubt because it is so easy to falsify e-mails) these guys involved with Foley are GAY and were active participants.
So, what is up?
Or did these guys set up Foley for a future public shaming?
This better not be another Rathergate or ABC and Brian Ross will be very sorry they ruined another person’s life.
The Dems are winning! They have gotten us to turn on our own and without actual verifiable evidence..
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...apparently didn't have a stop or exit button to click on. Very odd.
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