An article in today’s Washington Post discusses how Democrats are targeting their opponents and using past and present legal/ethical problems their competition has faced as issues in their campaigns. The article takes a slant towards painting the Democrats strategy as dangerous. This part in particular highlights that slant: Former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie […]
From the front page of Today’s Washington Post: A Republican congressman knew of disgraced former representative Mark Foley’s inappropriate Internet exchanges as far back as 2000 and personally confronted Foley about his communications. A spokeswoman for Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) confirmed yesterday that a former page showed the congressman Internet messages that had made the […]
I am really beginning to think that the Foley scandal is the GOPs campaign tactic. They want to keep the story out front. Here is my reasoning for this. 1. More top Republican aides keep coming forward and throwing new monkey wrenches in the story. Just today another top aide to Denny Hastert has come […]
Eugene Robinson sums it up perfectly as always: Let’s deal with the circumstance that dares not speak its name: How much of the Mark Foley scandal’s impact is due to the fact that he’s a gay man who preyed on young boys? The basic story line — powerful man exploits children — would be the […]
Drudge is trying to spin FoleyGate so bad that he is looking more like and idiot than people already knew. He is now saying that the pages conducted these email and IM exchanges with Foley as a “prank”: Faced with claims by the conservative political website The Drudge Report on Thursday that lurid instant message […]
This shows you what the Republican controlled House is really all about: An Atlanta man told a local television station and newspaper that former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record) sent him sexually suggestive messages after he served as a congressional page 10 years ago. Tyson Vivyan, 26, of Buckhead told WAGA-TV in […]
And it is garbage: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that Democratic sex scandals have been far worse than the suggestive Internet messages sent to teenage congressional pages by former Rep. Mark Foley. Gingrich said Democrats have wanted to punish their offenders less than the GOP. “What we don’t have to do is allow […]
Michael Brown, George Bush and Mark Foley touring damage from Katrina. (h/t Josh)
And they keep on falling: The chief of staff for Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds, Kirk Fordham, resigned after questions were raised about his role in the handling of the congressional page scandal, according to Republican sources on Capitol Hill. Those sources said Fordham, a former chief of staff for Congressman Mark Foley, had urged Republican […]
This is from Brian Ross’ Blotter: But according to an instant message provided to ABC News by a former page, Foley did make such an offer to a former page in April, 2003. Maf54: then we can have a few drinks Maf54: lol Teen: yes yes 😉 Maf54: your not old enough to drink Teen: […]