While both are sick, sick, behavior, I can't see how trying to equate inappropriate behavior among cosenting adults to someone trying to seduce a minor is a winning tactic.
One, while perverse, was legal (but the lie wasn't). The other may very well have been a crime though I'm withholding judgement until the smoke clears and the facts start to become visible.
Excuse me, but when did sexual harassment become sex between two consenting adults?
ML was a subordinate in a work environment to BC. Consenting or not this is by definition sexual harassment.
How many other employees/interns suffered because of the selfish actions of these two pigs?
FWIW, Sexual harassment is not legal.
I'm not sure how age of consent laws factor into a case that involves emails that might have crossed state lines, but the age of consent in DC is 16--the age of the youngest page Foley turned his attention to. If it turns out to just involve DC jurisdiction then it really is no different than the Lewinsky fiasco. Maybe the House leadership knows this and in calling for an immediate investigation they want the parallel to come out quickly and more fully highlight the hypocrisy of the Democrats.
The situation is horrible, but I think it's being handled as best that it can be by the Republicans. Thank goodness Foley immediately resigned and is not trying to cling to office and drag the party down further with him. And thank goodness the leadership isn't hesitating on what to do.
As far as the Bent One's concerned, there are a few other little matters, all of which the DemonRats have condoned or suppressed that are a lot worse than e-mail and IM propositions for homosexual sex:
-he raped Juanita Broaddrick;
-he sexually assaulted Paula Jones;
-he sexually assaulted Kathleen Willey.