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To: penelopesire; potlatch; ntnychik; Smartass; Boazo; Alamo-Girl; PhilDragoo; ...

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penelopesire, can you ping me/us when stuff breaks???

56 posted on 10/07/2006 9:14:04 AM PDT by bitt ("And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.")

57 posted on 10/07/2006 9:18:45 AM PDT by Enterprise (Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)

• In 1983, then-Democratic Rep. Gerry Studds of Massachusetts was caught in a similar situation. In his case, Studds had sex with a male teenage page -- something Foley hasn't been charged with.

Did Studds express contrition? Resign? Quite the contrary. He rejected Congress' censure of him and continued to represent his district until his retirement in 1996.

• In 1989, Rep. Barney Frank, also of Massachusetts, admitted he'd lived with Steve Gobie, a male prostitute who ran a gay sex-for-hire ring out of Frank's apartment. Frank, it was later discovered, used his position to fix 33 parking tickets for Gobie.

What happened to Frank? The House voted 408-18 to reprimand him -- a slap on the wrist. Today he's an honored Democratic member of Congress, much in demand as a speaker and "conscience of the party."

• In 2001, President Clinton, who had his own intern problem, commuted the prison sentence of Illinois Rep. Mel Reynolds, who had sex with a 16-year-old campaign volunteer and pressured her to lie about it. (Reynolds also was convicted of campaign spending violations.)

http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=244680809798238

58 posted on 10/07/2006 9:35:32 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)

To: bitt; penelopesire; potlatch; ntnychik; Smartass; Boazo; Alamo-Girl

penelopesire, can you ping me/us when stuff breaks???

Whooooa May the Good Lord protect you!

Thanks for the ping, bitt. I sure want to follow this story as well!

59 posted on 10/07/2006 9:46:32 AM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)

Thanks bitt. Very interesting.

60 posted on 10/07/2006 9:58:49 AM PDT by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)

To: bitt; devolve; penelopesire

Whew! Thanks for the ping to #22 bitt.

65 posted on 10/07/2006 11:53:51 AM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)

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