Posted on 10/01/2006 12:51:29 AM PDT by beyond the sea
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Republican leaders mounted an effort to explain their own conduct after the resignation of Rep. Mark Foley and suggested there should be a criminal investigation of Foley's contacts with congressional pages.
A strongly worded statement assailing Foley from the chamber's top three Republicans came as they tried to answer key questions: What did they know and what did they do about it?
Calling the contacts "an obscene breach of trust," the congressmen said in their statement that "[Foley's] immediate resignation must now be followed by the full weight of the criminal justice system."
"The improper communications between Congressman Mark Foley and former House congressional pages is unacceptable and abhorrent," read the statement issued by Majority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois and Majority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri.
ABC News on Friday evening reported details of three exchanges of instant messages sent in 2003 between teenage male pages and someone using the screen name Maf54, which ABC identified as Foley. The congressman's initials are MAF, and he was born in 1954.
In one of those exchanges, Maf54 advises the teen to "strip down." In another, when the teen says he's wearing a T-shirt and shorts, Maf54 replies, "Love to slip them off of you." And in a third, Maf54 asks, "Do I make you a little horny?" (More details) Democrats suggest cover up
The scandal comes just weeks before the November 7 midterm elections, and Republicans were hurriedly trying to find someone to replace Foley. Foley, 53 and single, had been favored to win re-election in the Republican-leaning district running against Democrat Tim Mahoney.
Democrats sought to take advantage of the bad press.
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Here we go again.
The liberal media will be talking about a Republican coverup for weeks.
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Too disgusting and creepy, but maybe Barney Franks can be the democrat spokesfairy.
Beyond disgusting. Makes my skin crawl. If he doesn't land in jail, Hell can have him.
Yeah, but Studds was an heroic gay pioneer from Massachusetts, doing the right thing, following his bliss, speaking truth to power, whatever.
Foley's a Republican; that's his real perversion as far as the DBM is concerned. If Studds had been a Republican, they would have run him out of town on a rail, too.
Don't you understand logic? /s
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Foley is a scientologist.
That's somewhat odd. I thought scientologists are supposed to be rather fond of clams.
The GOP should be insulted for covering up this sex scandal. I stop supporting the Catholic Church because of their PC behavior toward sex perverts.</p>
Well since the Republican leadership has known of the emails since last year and did nothing to force Foley out or to retire, they will get what they deserve come November. They are doing everything but annointing Nancy Pelosi as speaker.
The Democrats would embrace his homosexuality.
McGreevy, was having sex with a male intern..the only difference being a few years age on the intern. McGreevy was also paying the intern with government money. He declared he was a homo when caught, and the Dems embraced him.
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Thanks, I was wondering to whom Ann was referring.
............. and?
"McGreevy, was having sex with a male intern..the only difference being a few years age on the intern."
If you are referring to Golan Cipel, I don't think that he was an intern. McGreevey gave him a pretty high paying job in his administration. I think it was as some sort of security adviser. As for the age, there is a difference, Golan Cipel is in his thirties.
I've read just a little on this from different articles. I am not sure what e-mails were known when or by whom. But if you are right that the ugliest ones were exposed to high-ranking Republicans a long time ago, we (the Republicans) are in trouble in November..... because, the old liberal media is going to play this music like a five week concert stay at Carnegie Hall.
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I wrote earlier on another thread.....
I was watching CNN late this night while cutting slices in my flesh (kidding) ....... and CNN was playing up the Republican Party Cover up Angle for a great deal of the news segment. They not only are going to concentrate on that angle for weeks ahead, they started a POLL on the question of this Republican Perversion Cover up. This may just be pretty bad.
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The socialist/Marxist/liberal media is the most destructive, relentless, and ruthless enemy of this Republic.
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The democrats and their media will play this for sure form now until election day and they will play it 24/7. However they are still going to lose the elections.
I hope you are right, but I'm one guy out here who never underestimates the ongoing dedicated, ruthless power of the old liberal media and the relative gullibility and ignorance of many American voters.
We'll see.
No doubt that the democrats will be at least 15 points behind in any elections if not for the liberal media. The question is why does not the liberal media deliver every elections to the democrats? In fact why are the democrats losing more elections than they are winning ones?
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