Pagegate
I've got a break tonight from things so I thought I'd weigh in on Rep Mark Foley's Pagegate.
First off, I am thoroughly disgusted at those who think this is somehow funny or worthy of snark. At the core it is a story about a sick man who needs serious help.
I also find those who downplay this equally repugnant. While driving through St Louis on Tuesday I was surfing the radio looking for the Cardinals game and came across some talk show where the commentator was blaming the pages, saying they were egging Foley on and that these were not innocent children.
Whoever the fuck that asshat was needs to be dragged out behind a barn and sodomized repeatedly sans lube with an 18" black King Dong dildo.
I'm sure this same needledick was howling for Clinton's head over L'affaire de Lewinsky. Now there was someone on the record saying she was going to DC to get her "presidential kneepads". But let's move on.
It's the reaction to Foley's behavior that now becomes the story. There are rumors that the GOP leadership- and Speaker Hastert- knew of Foley's "indiscretions" over a year ago but covered it up. If that is the case, then Hastert not only needs to resign, but maybe even rung up on criminal charges as well.
See, up in Boston we've had several years of the very ugly Catholic pedophile priest scandals where a sizeable component was the covering up of the molestations. This isn't very different.
What is also important is that it blows the lid off the oft-repeated fiction that somehow it's only Democrats who engage in such things. The GOP has become the "holier than thou" party and, well, this blows that whole notion straight to hell.
Of course, the GOP is going to suffer for the Foley scandal. This may well be the straw that breaks the camel's back. The party- and El Presidente- have been taking a major beat-down lately over Iraq simply because as more facts come out, it is becoming increasingly clear to the public that either they've been lied to repeatedly or that those running things really are a bunch of clueless jodyfucks.
At this point it doesen't really matter- people have had enough and this scandal couldn't have come at a worse time for the GOP. Dubya's been barnstorming the country trying to counter the charges in Woodward's new book and his poll numbers were rebounding slightly. But last week it came out that Condee Rice dropped the ball on the 9/11 warnings and later lied about it. However, that got eclipsed by this whole Foley thing and the SS Dubya is taking on water and about to go under.
With only another 4 weeks or so to the midterm elections, the only hope for the GOP is to find the cure for anal warts and offering to spring for hookers for every male of legal voting age. Not bloody likely and the only hope for GOP incumbents is to toss El Presidente under the bus.
So let's see how many of them truly place party over personal ambition. Oh yeah, let's get a headcount on how many rats scurry off the ship. Anyone want to venture on the over/under?
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First off, I am thoroughly disgusted at those who think this is somehow funny or worthy of snark. At the core it is a story about a sick man who needs serious help.
I also find those who downplay this equally repugnant. While driving through St Louis on Tuesday I was surfing the radio looking for the Cardinals game and came across some talk show where the commentator was blaming the pages, saying they were egging Foley on and that these were not innocent children.
Whoever the fuck that asshat was needs to be dragged out behind a barn and sodomized repeatedly sans lube with an 18" black King Dong dildo.
I'm sure this same needledick was howling for Clinton's head over L'affaire de Lewinsky. Now there was someone on the record saying she was going to DC to get her "presidential kneepads". But let's move on.
It's the reaction to Foley's behavior that now becomes the story. There are rumors that the GOP leadership- and Speaker Hastert- knew of Foley's "indiscretions" over a year ago but covered it up. If that is the case, then Hastert not only needs to resign, but maybe even rung up on criminal charges as well.
See, up in Boston we've had several years of the very ugly Catholic pedophile priest scandals where a sizeable component was the covering up of the molestations. This isn't very different.
What is also important is that it blows the lid off the oft-repeated fiction that somehow it's only Democrats who engage in such things. The GOP has become the "holier than thou" party and, well, this blows that whole notion straight to hell.
Of course, the GOP is going to suffer for the Foley scandal. This may well be the straw that breaks the camel's back. The party- and El Presidente- have been taking a major beat-down lately over Iraq simply because as more facts come out, it is becoming increasingly clear to the public that either they've been lied to repeatedly or that those running things really are a bunch of clueless jodyfucks.
At this point it doesen't really matter- people have had enough and this scandal couldn't have come at a worse time for the GOP. Dubya's been barnstorming the country trying to counter the charges in Woodward's new book and his poll numbers were rebounding slightly. But last week it came out that Condee Rice dropped the ball on the 9/11 warnings and later lied about it. However, that got eclipsed by this whole Foley thing and the SS Dubya is taking on water and about to go under.
With only another 4 weeks or so to the midterm elections, the only hope for the GOP is to find the cure for anal warts and offering to spring for hookers for every male of legal voting age. Not bloody likely and the only hope for GOP incumbents is to toss El Presidente under the bus.
So let's see how many of them truly place party over personal ambition. Oh yeah, let's get a headcount on how many rats scurry off the ship. Anyone want to venture on the over/under?
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