Congressional Sex Scandal Reverberates in Washington, Across US
By Dan Robinson
Washington
03 October 2006

The controversy over a former Republican congressman who resigned amid
revelations he sent sexually suggestive messages to male pages
continues to reverberate in Washington and across the United States.
President Bush called for a full investigation, as Republicans in the
House of Representatives try to limit political damage from the
scandal.

With Republican leaders trying to conduct damage control, a new blow
was delivered in the form of a call by a key conservative newspaper for
House Speaker Dennis Hastert to resign.

A Washington Times editorial said Hastert was "either grossly negligent
or deliberately looked the other way in hopes that a brewing scandal
would simply blow away."

Rule of law! Rule of law!

On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:34:41 -0700, daklute wrote:

It certainly appears that Foley broke it. He's being investigated, and
he'll be tried.

--
No 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110-pound
woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil?
Is that wrong? People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence,
they're begging for the rule of brute force, when the biggest, strongest
animals among men were always automatically "right". Guns end that,
and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make
it work.
- L. Neil Smith

Jeff Dege wrote:

After years of being protected by the House Republican leadership.

On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:39:39 -0700, Rent This Space wrote:

Years during which they were aware of him being guilty of no more than
being gay.

Yes, someone has been sitting on those IM transcripts for a year or more.
But it wasn't the Republicans.

Jeff Dege wrote:

On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:34:41 -0700, daklute wrote:

It certainly appears that Foley broke it. He's being investigated, and
he'll be tried.

--
No 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110-pound
woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil?
Is that wrong? People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence,
they're begging for the rule of brute force, when the biggest, strongest
animals among men were always automatically "right". Guns end that,
and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make
it work.
- L. Neil Smith

On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:39:39 -0700, Rent This Space wrote:

Years during which they were aware of him being guilty of no more than
being gay.

Yes, someone has been sitting on those IM transcripts for a year or more.
But it wasn't the Republicans.