Or for that matter, what are they going to do about the discoveries of Jeffrey Lord? Writing in Spectator.org, Lord reports on Rep. Nancy Pelosi marching in a 2001 gay pride parade in San Francisco. Today Pelosi sounds like this: "Republican leaders admitted to knowing about Mr. Foley's abhorrent behavior for six months to a year and failed to protect children in their trust." However, according to Lord, in that 2001 gay pride parade who was striding a mere three spots away from Pelosi but Harry Hay, founder of The Mattachine Society and a strong advocate of man/boy love. Upon Hay's death in 2002 the North American Man/Boy Love Association ran on its Web site several of his marmoreal declarations, one being, "Because if the parents and friends of gays are truly friends of gays, they should know from their gay kids that the relationship with an older man is precisely what 13-, 14-, and 15-year-old kids need more than anything else in the world." Frankly I would have suggested that shooting hoops is important too, but silly old me.
Now I think we can all agree that sending dirty e-mails to pages whether 16, 18, or whatever their ages might be is reprehensible and if done at taxpayers' expense still more reprehensible. I have not seen the dirty e-mails but I am told that some are as dirty as Bill Clinton's phone sex, which, come to think of it, is another sex scandal that our Democratic friends patiently indulged. Yet if an election on national defense in time of war, homeland security, the prosecution of terrorists and a healthy economy is to turn on the Republican leadership's treating Foley the way the Democratic leadership treated Studds and Frank, I think we are all being a bit frivolous.
While on the subject of the Republican leadership, may I ask why the leadership has not yet made an issue of the abovementioned instances of Democratic hypocrisy regarding sexual misbehavior? They seem pretty obvious. Hastert has been as slow to address the Democrats' abysmal failure to maintain standards on Capitol Hill as he was in acting on Foley. Actually he has been as slow to address this hypocrisy as Pelosi has been to apologize for appearing with Hay in that gay pride parade.