Just as they lock-stepped their way to 12 years as the majority party, now they are splitting up and tearing each other down. An awesome sight. This is the democrats "swift-boat"...paint the entire GOP as corrupt, war-mongering pedophiles...it'll stick. Bye Bye Hastert!! No Minority Leader for you...nor Boehner either!

And you ought to think long and hard about making a federal case out of this mess, before the smoke clears, other than seeing to HIS firing and waiting for facts to be revealed as you are already accusing into dark, unknown waters, making bold statements pro and con.. you can't take back as well, that involve a lot of people's personal feelings, and lifestyles.. both public and private.

REVIEW & OUTLOOK

Paging Mr. Hastert
Could a gay Congressman be quarantined?

Tuesday, October 3, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT

Florida Republican Mark Foley's sexually explicit emails to a Congressional page certainly warranted his resignation from the House, and they may well merit prosecution. But this being five weeks from an election, the GOP House leadership is also being assailed for not having come down more strongly on a gay Congressman for showing a more than friendly interest in underage boys. That's a different issue altogether.

At least this seems to be the essence of the Democratic and media charge against Speaker Dennis Hastert, who admits his office was told months ago about a friendly, non-explicit 2005 email exchange between Mr. Foley and another page. In that exchange, Mr. Foley had asked the teenager "how old are you now" and requested "an email pic."

In our admittedly traditional view, this was odd and suspect behavior, especially because Mr. Foley was well known as a homosexual even if he declined to publicly acknowledge it. And Mr. Hastert was informed that fellow Illinois Republican John Shimkus--who oversees the page program as part of a six-member board--spoke privately with Mr. Foley, who explained that the email was innocent.

What next was Mr. Hastert supposed to do with an elected Congressman? Assume that Mr. Foley was a potential sexual predator and bar him from having any private communication with pages? Refer him to the Ethics Committee? In retrospect, barring contact with pages would have been wise.

But in today's politically correct culture, it's easy to understand how senior Republicans might well have decided they had no grounds to doubt Mr. Foley merely because he was gay and a little too friendly in emails. Some of those liberals now shouting the loudest for Mr. Hastert's head are the same voices who tell us that the larger society must be tolerant of private lifestyle choices, and certainly must never leap to conclusions about gay men and young boys. Are these Democratic critics of Mr. Hastert saying that they now have more sympathy for the Boy Scouts' decision to ban gay scoutmasters? Where's Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on that one?

more of this story at ;

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009033

A cover up involving male on male sexual harassment! Anyone in power who could have done something to prevent it should resign forthwith before the subpoenas are issued, and the answers are taken under oath. No offense, Congressman Boehner, but your excuse is lame, not to mention that you can't seem to get your story straight!

On Fox this morning, E D Hill referred to the Foley e mails as, "questionable" during an interview with a Democratic Rep. Of course, had Foley being a Democratic Rep. she would have asked, "why is Foley not in jail".

The Republicans were covering up. Now they are pointing fingers at each other. Don't Blame the Liberals

For all of those of you who like me are sick of this crap there is one sure way to rid ourselves of the people responsible. In November vote out ALL incumbents and clean the "house". Remember Hastert is not the only Speaker of the House, we the U.S. citizens are the true speakers and in November let Congress hear us loud and clear. As well you need to continue in the next election to vote out those incumbents because not all seats are up for re-election this year. If we do this then the next group we send to Washington will know that we mean what we say and say what we mean.

Could it be Dennis Hastert himself is a part of the perverted group?

when all of this is investigated, i'm quite sure that congressman bohner wil be right at the top of the list.bohner, blunt, and hasert are all a bunch of corrupted "SLUGS"

as this mess unfolds PLEASE remember that this is the same gang of creeps and crooks that have just voted themselves the right to monitor your emails and phone without a warrant, and imprison, detain and torture without evidence. you trusted them to do it because they are the people with morals and values you share.
Righteous types
Abramoff
Cunningham
Delay
Foley
Libby
Ney
Safavian
more to come.....
you've done a heck of a job!

If they hope for a successful cover-up, the GOP congressional leadership needs to take a few minutes and work out a series of lies they can all agree on.

I say let's use the rough interrogation techniques and send Hastert to Bush's secret prisons and see if he confesses After all it's legal now and as they said, it's not torture.

If Bush were to designate people involved as "supporting terrorism" then he could have Hastert hauled off and questioned. Since hastert voted for this kind of power then he shouldn't object.

Does anyone else think that making the COMPARISON between being a gay male and pedophelia, and saying that the reason HastertCo. did nothing is that they "didn't want to be accused of 'gay bashing' is a form of gay bashing in and of itself. Republicans are truly scrambling now. What with the ban on gay civil rights, uh, I mean the 'Protection of Marriage Act', as well as several other anti-gay initiatives running rampant throughout the Republican party, does anyone think they are NOT anti-gay already??

So the lock-step Dems are coming out against the lock-step Republicans: You are both mentally ill. The best you can hope for is the other side looking bad? Why? Your party has nothing to offer and neither do the Republicans. The Pages are the same victims that the general populace is: We are both held hostage by a corrupt two-party system. Lock-steppers prepare to be dismantled in lock-step.

I am laughing.

Okay Anthony F...

What do you suggest?

Boehner asked Hastert if it was being taken care of and then forgot all about it after that? We are supposed to be dumb enough to believe that? A scandal that could erupt into the kind of mess that we are seeing now? If he never bothered to visit the subject again he is as big an idiot as I always thought he was.

Boehner is as guilty as Hassert and Foley - He know dam well this was not handled properly - Exposed which would have required Media coverage - I know ABC would not have skipped over it so if Mr Boehner did not see it in the press it could not have been handled properly after all what Foley did is a crime. Now that said - Mr Boehner msot likely meant by handling it was get it swept under the carpet which means he was over looking a crime on our young children - It really is clear at least to this guy.

Straight or gay, at the end of the day, its all political hay. (no matter what they say!)

Had this involved a Democratic congressman, do you think Speaker Hastert would have been so laid-back in his response? Clearly, the Speaker has failed his Republican majority members and the American people. Honesty is always the best policy, not waiting around to see what hits the newspapers. Hastert needs to step aside - today.

Agreed Ryan - we are being held hostage by a corrupt 2 party system when we don't have to be. We are also being held by who has the most money to send to DC for their own interests, not the interests of the PEOPLE (regardless of political affiliation).

Foley was wrong, period, no ifs ands or buts about it, plain wrong and running to rehab won't help or make us sympathetic to his actions, after all if alcohol could turn someone into a pedophile, then it would be illegal. Boehner is either an idiot himself or thinks that the American public are a bunch of idiots. This is a disgrace and I hope the rest of you are as fed up as I am - change is necessary (not just Rep or Dem but on a much larger scale than that). Insist on change, abolish 2 party system and implement drug/alcohol testing in our elected officials as welll as background checks and psych profiles (hey if it works for corporate America, then why not our elected officials). Change is good people, vote for people not parties and scrutinize them, get involved and find the truth!!!

Hope ABC will not quit until they uncover the COVERUP on child molesting in Congress,starting with Hasert on down.America is waiting for you to get to the bottom of this corruption,don't let us down.