This is part of the training program to become congressional "representatives" themselves. Then they can spend all day cooking up ways to regulate morality....and spend all night violating them.

Nahhh, the Pages are following the examples of all the Republican lawmakers.

I miss the Clinton days too. Oral sex is a very different concern than Blackwater, KBR, Enron, Katrina, Iran invasion, croni-ism, "missing" billion$, no body armor, no health care, no college aid raises, rotting bridges, political firings, Social Security and MediCare/Aide going broke, any US citizen can be an enemy combatant now, etc. etc.

Why didn't they kick out some who were getting a peep show?

Yeah David, Clinton's casual philandering with an intern, perjury, and eventual impeachment paved the way for a whole group of kids who can't see this as being wrong or immoral.

Were they of age of consent? Off the clock? I mean I believe the age of consent is 16 in Washington D.C..

I mean were there actual laws broken here? Just curious.

"Nahhh, the Pages are following the examples of all the Republican lawmakers.

Posted by: FormerRepub | Dec 10, 2007 2:38:37 PM"

What? You must be confusing the Bush administration with the Clintoon administration as I don't remember hearing anything about Bush getting in trouble for playing hide the cigar and have oral sex with an intern in the oval office or anyone for that matter (let alone someone that wasn't his wife) but I do seem to remember someone named Bill Clinton doing so!

I'm sure all of the pages that were performing these deeds were from Texas. The average IQ of a Texan is 85, which is the lowest end of the "normal" range.

Isn't this behavior the San Francisco values that Pelosi champions? What's her problem?

More selective outrage and hypocrisy from the Democrats.

They knew about waterboarding in 2002, said nothing and now are "outraged". They said there were WMDs in Iraq in 2001 and that we should invade but now they are "outraged".

They were opposed to Mark Foley and wanted him to resign but wont say anything about liar Pelosi who knew about this stuff for months and said nothing.

Dems are not fit to run this country.

Poster "LOL" chose the right name - he/she is saying that the Democrats knew the Republicans were doing stupid and terrible things, but said nothing at the time, and were only outraged later, and therefore the Democrats are not fit to run the country. LOL! This is supposed to make me believe the the people doing the stupid and terrible things ARE fit to run the country?

Wait you are confused. This is the training for the White Hose intern program.

THis is an outrage!

Whats that?

It was a Democrat who knew this was going on and did nothing about it, and probably covered it up?

Oh, then its no big deal. Hillary in '08!!!!

"As a mother and a grandmother, nothing is more important to me than the safety and security of our House pages," Pelosi said in a statement.

Nancy, Nancy, Nancy. The did feel safe and secure. They were indiscreet. They were people of low character that should have been screened out of the Congressional Page Program. Too bad low-life democrats are not screened out as well.

Yikes! Don't you folks on the right know that nothing is wrong or immoral on the left. Nancy can't be outraged when this is considered simply expected and normal behaviour. She had no real interest in "protecting" the children.

Since most members of Congress are little more than "prostitutes" who sell votes and influence instead of sex, this page behavior seems somehow not too surprising. At least Bush knows he's unpopular and acts like it, but members of Congress with their record low approval ratings don't seem to have a clue!

However I do strongly disagree with Brian Ross crashing members parties with lobbyists and special interests. When Congress is more unpopular as an insistution than Bush, they deserve to sell their votes and influence in private.

So the Dems were covering this up. They should be forced our of office and Pelosi should resign her leadership as Hastert did. Pelosi hasn't improved anything -- what kind of a mother and grandmother is she? The kind that would encourage her children to do as Bill Clinton has done: lie and cheat; and we all know that oral sex isn't really sex because Bill Clinton said so.

I think it's unfair of this website to require typing a code before the comment will be accepted. I have poor eyesight and the number "3" or "8" with lines thru them look the same to me. Why can't the code be clearer?

Whats wrong with it? Isn't this the example that Billary is showing to America?

What parent in their right mind would send their underage child to DC unsupervised and working for a politician? The page program should be terminated or changed to university aged students. 15-16 year olds do not have the maturity to live on their own without parental supervision.

Where is the religious right outrage? Any other time you would be screaming your heads off about anything to do with SEX.

It was just an expression of affection among two gay lads. What's the big deal?

Typical democrats always operating below the belt as they never have too much upstairs. If it's not the daily talking points they follow it's Bubba's internal affairs they believe they need to get a head.
Never, ever trust a democrat they're always trying to hide something; take for instance Hillary Clinton's records; she's not revealing them to anyone and the MSM isn't going to ask her either. Hypocrites.

There are no 15-yr-old pages. To be eligible to serve as a page, all applicants must be at least 16 years of age at the time their appointment begins and have a cumulative grade point average of "B" (3.0 or 85/100) or better in all major courses to date.

If the pages are doing it for their own pleasure,it is strictly their business.What has Democratic or Republican congressmen to do with it?

Give the kids a break...They are just good blue blooded Lincoln Republicans, like Mark Foley, Rudy Guiliani, Ted Haggard, Newt Gringrich, Larry Craig and the rest of this Republican trainwreck..

To FormerRepub: It was Mel Reynolds, former Democrat member of Congress, who was convicted for having sex with an underage girl. And then Bill Clinton pardoned him. How quickly some people forget.

they took notes from the Clinton Administration

Wonder why the pages think it's ok to have oral sex?????
Just look to slick Willie who lied under oath sayinh "I did not have sex with that woman". It was slick willie Clinton that said he did not think oral sex was sex, while trying to rationalize his lying under oath.
And now another Clinton wants to be POTUS??? God help America if she is elected.

The remark about Texans was uncalled for, who are you to pass judgement on other people - you are the ignorant one just by your remark. Now to the pages, they are too young to be allowed to associate with the degenerats in government and I don't care what party they belong to - they are still degenerates. Pelosi is not a fit person to remark about what is going on with these pages - she needs to look at her district in CA to see what type of sleaze they are and she does nothing about that. It is all disgusting and sickening.

Isn't this the kind of stuff that happened shortly before the fall of the Roman Empire?

Let's see the here the Democrats control Congress now for the last year and somehow this is Bush's fault....Hey "Liberty or Death"..why don't you come down to Texas and say that so we can give you more wedgies like you u got in school..

honest Abe....San Francisco values you say? I guess YOU ought to know...Hurray Nancy Pelosi!

WE SEEM TO BE GROWING A BIT MORE MORALLY CORRUPT EACH DAY AND THE MSM HAS NO PROBLEM POINTING THIS OUT, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME THEY HAMMER THINGS THAT COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE LIKE READING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

LAW, ETHICS AND INTEGRITY ARE BECOMING A RARE BIRD AMONG OUR LEADERS AND IT FILTERS DOWN TO WHO IS GOING TO REPLACE THEM.

OMG..why is this a Democrat or Republican issue? It is like watching a bunch of 5 year olds on a playground saying "my daddy can beat up your daddy". Grow up people and get a friggin clue. It isn't about political parties. Bottom line is this is sick and it should stop. The end.

Leaving aside the party affiliation, I'm curious to know if Barney Frank had any comment on this.

Maybe they were just improving their resumes.

Everyone seems to forget that these pages or CHILDREN (15/16) are being supervised by old pervs. These guys unzip their pants for kids and people are blaming the pages. Politics and morality are two different monsters according to what I read here. Expelling kids, but, not punishing these grown politicians who take advantage of of these kids. Take the pages name out, and, place your daughters name and see how you feel about blame when it comes to teenage girls and grown men who abuse them.

Give it up, Bill Clinton was 8 yrs ago, Foley, Craig, Vitter, were within the last year. Like it or not, Clinton's wasn't against the law, Foley, Craig, and Vitter's were. You people need to read the papers more often, I'm surprised you think what Clinton did is still important. Clean up the system, it's been a shambles since Foley played "footsy" with minors.

Why is this a Democrat or Republican issue? Some young pages had the bad taste (pun intended) to perform oral sex in front of viewers. One has to wonder what type of homes they come from. Obviously, rather lacking in structure and morals and manners.

This is the result of having Clinton in the White House for 8 years...

Why do all the Texans have their shorts in a KNOT because Brian Birchall said the IQ of a Texan was 85,the low end of the scale????? I thought he was a bit to high like maybe 10 or 20 points..Let me see now..Lyndon Banes Johnson, George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush?????

It is like a reflex, criticize any Republican for their actions and they yell, "Clinton". It has been 2 very disappointing elections since he was in office. The US has abandoned habeus Corpus, and is now looking at giving the telcoms a get out of jail free card for massive spying on ALL internet traffic that was in the USA. We have genuine matters that a true conservative would be outraged at. instead we have a fixation on sex scandals, and no matter how many Gay Republicans get caught in the closet, all they say is "Clinton!"

Was it Girls with guys, or guys with guys?

Thats the only way to know if they were democrat or republican pages.

RE: suprmn517 - "What Bill Clinton did was not against the law."

In most states, adultry IS against the law.

But then I guess that depends on what your definition of the word "IS" is.

Excuse me.

My last remark quoted suprmn517.

It should have referenced the posting left by ABLE.

My apologies.

Oral sex became socially acceptable when Former President Clinton had it performed in the Oval Office of the White House while conducting his "presidential" duties. By the way I did not realize that Bill Clinton, Barney Franks or Ted Kennedy were Republicans...sleezebag Republicans seem to vacate their political offices and avoid public appearances.

My, my, my, seems most of the comments have very little to do with THE story and more to do with very juvenile polarized bickering. I'm an Independent since before it was popular.
yes Bill did wrong MORALLY, He was never ACTUALLY impeached, he was aquitted. Did he lie and cheat, yes he did. But does and has the current Administration Lie, and cheat, and steal and coverup (damn that plausible denial Libby), ruined this country's credit, through ballooning deficits and lower dollar value, dragging it's feet on even acknowlegment of global warming, and have/has this admin been running a haphazard war costing 10's of thousands of needless deaths? Just so it's known I think we've been TOOOO soft in conducting war and on borders. My personal beliefs are pretty brutal in that regard and not very popular; so, it may be said I'm not a bleeding heart, or a hawk. I guess you could say I'm a bleeding hawk.
Happy Haunukah, Merry Christmas, Eristide, Quanza(sp?), and the rest Happy Holidays

"impeach" does not mean "remove from office", it actually means something closer to "indict". Clinton was impeached, but you're right - he was not found guilty of either of the charges by the senate and therefore was not removed from office.

Cut taxes + oral sex = bad
Raise taxes + oral sex = hero

There is no double standard. Only one correct and one intolerable.

Tolerance is accepting the political correctness without question from others who have the power to shame you.

I can not believe people still bring up Bill Clinton's name when oral sex & lying is mentioned as if he's at fault for the invention of either---does any one know how long oral sex or lying has existed...EONS! He was not the first to have oral sex and lie and won't be the last--at least nobody died when he lied!