The Ongoing Mark Foley Scandal
The Plot Thickens . . . And Sickens
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Again, was it impossible to learn about stories like this before the election?
The head of the House Democrats' campaign committee, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, had heard of former Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate e-mails to a former male page a year before they became public, a campaign committee aide told CNN.
Foley, a Republican, resigned after the scandal broke. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and other Republicans have suggested repeatedly that some Democrats knew about the e-mails earlier than they have acknowledged, but waited till midterm elections approached to bring up the issue.
Emanuel's campaign committee aide said Friday that the Illinois Democrat was informed in 2005, but never saw the correspondence and did not have enough information to raise concerns. The aide said Emanuel took "no action" because his knowledge was "cursory" and little more than "rumor."
The aide's acknowledgement differs from the flat "no" Emanuel gave in October when asked -- during an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" -- if he or anyone on his staff knew of the e-mails before the scandal broke.
So, in rooting out the "culture of corruption," will Speaker-elect Pelosi haul the man most responsible for a Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives before the Ethics Committee? The whole world wonders.
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It wasn't the Foley scandal, it was the evangelist who got caught with meth and a male prostitute. That's what really sank the Republicans.
Until the scandal broke, I think the vast majority of evangelicals (myself included) had no idea who the heck that dude was, let alone believed that he represented us. Just because the guy led a huge church doesn't mean that he speaks for evangelicals as a whole.
"I could explain, but that would be very long, very convoluted, and make you look very stupid. Nobody wants that... except maybe me."
Just another gay-related scandal which had about the same effect on the '06 elections as the Foley scandal: zero...but if Two Nephi thinks Foley won it for the Dems, he may want to give some credit to what's-his-name the gay evangelist for really putting the Dems over the top.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
because of the Foley scandal was Foley's own. The whole business was a classic tempest in a teapot, blown way out of proportion by everyone. The GIOP was already in deep, deep trouble in the recent election before L'affaire Foley hit the fan, and even after the scandal faded that trouble remained.
Rehashing any of this at this point is the classic beating of a dead horse.
Your absolutely correct, with one exception. The Foley affair was drug out for an entire month leading to the elections. The Dems, for once, handled the matter just like Karl Rove would have had the tables been turned - slowly, slowly, slowly and allowed to fester and sore. And the strategy worked - the "Gift of Foley" just kept on giving, right to just before the elections. By then, the damage was done.
the dhimmies were in total control at every step of the scandal. Hastert was over his head, and this was the shallow end.
This line of thinking is every bit as unhealthy and unproductive as the "Ohio was stolen!" garbage I heard from many of my Democrat friends for the previous two years. Anger is no more attractive in politics than it is in the dating game.
Had Hastert and Boener stepped up to the plate when the Foley matter broke, Republicans would still be in control of Congress.