ORIGINAL COMPOSE DATE: 04 October 2006
Sometimes you just have to love Washington.
I know, it seems rather cruel, almost sadistic, to laugh at the current fiasco that is Washington, especially considering the circumstances, but there is a reason for my laughter.
I love watching hypocrites go down. It does not matter if they are Republican, Democrat, Green, or Independent. The fact that Foley was on a committee designed to protect children, worked with John Walsh, and helped pass legislation that cracked down on pedophiles makes this current fiasco much sweeter.
Laughter aside at politicians scrambling to distance themselves and form a circular firing squad within the Republican camp, this is a serious issue.
Foley’s actions are abhorrent and I hope that he is prosecuted to the full extent of the laws that he helped create.
It is abhorrent that Foley’s activities were allowed for so long. Anyone that knew about Foley’s activities and allowed it without investigating or doing something about it should also be prosecuted to the full extent of the laws that Foley helped to pass.
Up until today I could have cared less if Hastert resigned. However, today’s new information that Hastert’s office was informed years ago by Foley’s ex-Chief of Staff changes things drastically in my view. Hastert and his Chief of Staff must go because they aided and abetted in a crime against a minor and obstructed justice.
Is this political war? Was this released in a timely manner to wage war on the Republicans before an election?
First, if there were Democrats that knew about this crime and they kept it to themselves, then they, too, should be prosecuted for aiding and abetting in a crime against a minor and for obstruction of justice.
Second, the fact that Republicans would even mention that this is somehow a smear campaign is a slap in the face of the victims of these crimes perpetrated by Foley and apparently allowed by higher members of the GOP. A child has been victimized and some hapless Republicans want to know if it is a pre-election smear campaign?
Please… where is your taste and couth?
The GOP needed a good shake-up to remind them that they are not the “party of values.” They are the party that “panders to values.”
In reality, like every other brand of politician, they are just that: politicians. Unfortunately for them, their pandering to “values” has placed them on a pedestal in the eyes of millions of Americans.
There is one drawback to being on a pedestal: more distance between you and the ground when you fall.
