- A habitual, and apparently flagrant, exploiter of children running the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children.
- The House GOP, wrestling like the Three Stooges to throw one another under the train while remaining on the platform themselves.
- Tony Snow, White House hack and father of a son and two daughters, dismissing IM messages like "Maf54: get a ruler and measure it for me" to a teenage boy as "simply naughty e-mails."
- Newt Gingrich, angling to become the 2008 presidential nominee of the legindarily homophobic Republican Party, explaining that the GOP House Leadership couldn't investigate early reports of Foley's boy-chasing out of fear that they'd be accused of "gay-bashing."
But there's one thing still missing, one thing to make this creepshow into the perfect storm of flesh-crawling repulsiveness. Can't quite put my finger on it . . .Damn. What is it? It's on the tip of my tongue . . . Don't tell me--I'll get it . . .
An eleven-letter word beginning with "S" . . .
2 comments:
I can think of many things creepier than Foley's emails.
I think the actual physical contact by Rep. Gerry Studds, the former Democrat congressman of Massachusetts, to be far creepier - AND ILLEGAL.
But what was the Democrat response to one of their own involved in child sex? He was censured by the House for sexual affairs with teenage pages (Studds with a male page).
The Democratic Party did not pressure Studds to resign, and he served thirteen more years.
So how does non-physical contact compare with physical contact?
Well, it's only "non-physical contact" that's come to light so far. Good luck with that.
As for Stubbs, the page was underage and [I'm assuming] such contact was illegal. Don't know the story as to why charges weren't pressed, but I do know he was censured [back when the House had a functioning ethics committee and Republicans didn't yet equate "bipartisanship" with "date rape"] but his own constituents elected him back to office about a half dozen more times. [That's gotta gall a little, like seeing Ted Kennedy still in office all these years after Chappaquiddick.]
[Don't forget, by the way that at the same time Stubbs was censured in the "page scandal," so was GOP representative Dan Crane, who ran for re-election the following year and lost.]
But of course, that was all back in 1983. This is 2006, after a decade of the GOP parading itself as the party of decency, morality, and family values.
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