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Originally posted by moakley

And then you have nitwits like Patrick McHenry who would have us shoot the messenger. It actually makes me irritable to watch this outside the context of "The Daily Show".

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Do you have any evidence that Democrats were not involve.

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Someone should smack Patrick. He is an embarrassment to the state of North Carolina. But of course NC may deserve him.

Putrid absolutely putrid.

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"His voting record is considered conservative even by Republican standards; he was one of 20 members who voted against reinstating the House ethics rules in place after they were changed, allegedly in order to protect House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. In 2006, DeLay was quoted by the Washington Times as saying that McHenry could be "the next Tom DeLay." In 2006 he voted against renewal of the Voting Rights Act."

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"On October 10, 2006, McHenry was ridiculed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show for accusing Democrats of deliberately publicising the sex scandal between Mark Foley during an interview with Wolf Blitzer."

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HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) -- Republican Rep. Christopher Shays defended the House speaker's handling of a congressional page scandal, saying no one died like during the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident involving Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy.

"I know the speaker didn't go over a bridge and leave a young person in the water, and then have a press conference the next day," the embattled Connecticut congressman told The Hartford Courant in remarks published Wednesday.

"Dennis Hastert didn't kill anybody," he added.

Shays' comments recalled the Chappaquiddick incident, when Kennedy's car ran off a Massachusetts bridge, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy did not immediately report the tragedy, and he later pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident.

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Immediately after the Mark Foley scandal broke, some anti-Republican gay-rights activists composed a memo containing the names of closeted gay Republican Congressional staffers and sent it to leading Christian-right advocacy groups. The founder and chairman of one of those groups, the Rev. Don Wildmon of the American Family Association, told me he has received that memo, which he referred to simply as "The List." Based on The List's contents, Wildmon is convinced that a secretive gay "clique" boring within the Republican-controlled Congress is responsible for covering up Foley's sexual predation toward teenage male House pages. Moreover, Wildmon calls on the Republican Party leadership to promptly purge the "subversive" gay staffers.

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Originally posted by HalfMooner

That's amazing. The finger-pointing is much crazier than I'd expected when I suggested we watch for this every-man-for-himself effect.

The American Family Association's Rev. Don Wildmon is acting like witch-hunter Senator Joe McCarthy did when the latter would wave blank sheets of paper, while solemnly claiming they held the names of Communists. Except this time the sheets may actually hold names, those of gay Republicans.

Note the attempts to conflate and confuse homosexuals with pedophiles. In panic and hatred, the GOP leaders and the fundies making up the NeoCon coalition are eating themselves alive -- and not in the nice way.

The NeoCon movement, which depended upon an unholy alliance of selected business interests with the Religious Right, is dead. It may not yet recognize its death, but all we are going to see from that moribund carcass is some final galvanic twitching.

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Conservative media watchdog Accuracy in Media is alleging that the Foley scandal is not the work of a gay Republican, but rather of a Democratic operative posing as a Republican to undermine the party.

In a piece entitled, "Republican Gays are Closeted Dems," Cliff Kincaid seems to allege that gay Republicans themselves are nothing more than a "Democratic 'dirty trick,'" hoping to use the party to "advance the same homosexual agenda embraced by the Democrats."

"If you are getting the idea that gay Republicans may be closeted Democrats," the column suggests, "then you are beginning to understand how the Mark Foley scandal could have been a Democratic Party dirty trick."

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Originally posted by Starman

So FauxNews was right to mark() Foley with a 'D'.

I'll guess any disgraced republican is an undercover Democrat.

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Originally posted by pleco

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Originally posted by Starman

So FauxNews was right to mark() Foley with a 'D'.

I'll guess any disgraced republican is an undercover Democrat.

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Same mentality which says that an ex-christian was never really a true christian.

BTW, why did Foley sit on the name of the priest for so long??? By doing so, he may have allowed this preist to committ other crimes. Was he afraid that if he acknowledged he was molested, that his republican ilk would no longer want to associate with him?

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