These guys are going to protect our children? They can't--or won't--even protect the pages!

And this is really repulsive:

"Foley was part of the Republican leadership, holding the post of deputy whip. He also chaired the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus." 

http://www.voxfux.co...

(I'm posting this site not for its conspiracy theories, but only because it has archived the most explosive newspaper articles from that case.)

Now, onto Foley.  His district is directly south of me.  If anyone from the DNC is reading, we need $$$ down here.  Now is the time to make some advances in Florida.  Send down the big guns!!!  Make this an issue.  That's what Dick W. would do.  All the surrounding districts should also benefit from this.

Man, he must have been bullied as a child.  I've had a year to digest his name.  It's still funny ;-)

-Roy Lawson

Their laws would lock up any health professional who had failed to turn the perpetrator in.

Buzz..Buzz...

I just got off the phone with an uncle who is the administrative partner of one of DC's biggest law firms. He wants to remain anonymous, but I can say that the firm is nearly 100 years old and has over 500 attorneys. (That limits his identity to a handful of people, all excellent lawyers.)

Like many terrific lawyers, my uncle is the opposite of litigious. He never litigates a case for which he can't find clear evidence to support his side, and he never litigates trivial cases.

That said, my uncle is adamant that there appears to be enough evidence of "civil or criminal negligence and possible cover-up" on the part of Congressmen Boehner and Hastert for the FBI and Justice Department to launch an immediate investigation into their involvement in the Congressman Foley sex scandal.

and this one which Josh Marshall came up with:

Hard to say what it means, if anything, but Rep. Shimkus says he interviewed Rep. Foley about the page matter with the House Clerk about 10 or 11 months ago. Presumably, that would have been former Clerk Jeff Trandahl. A few quick Nexis searches shows the first public announcements of Trandahl's departure were in the second week of November 2005.

The Kos diarist, after repeating Marshall's points, makes a few good points of his own:

There is a diary today about going with your gut instincts. Well, here is mine. Rep. Dale Kildee (D-MI), the only Democrat on the Board, was not informed of the interview that took place between Rep Shinkus, Clerk Trandahl, and Rep Foley. This was highly unusual. Within days of this meeting, Tandahl gets out of dodge. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation just happens to be a quasi governmental agency created by congress as a private 501C.

It could be a great coincidence that an unethical meeting of the committee on pages was conducted without the democrat present, nothing was done about Foley, and the clerk of congress who was present coincidentally resigned to take a job that the leadership could push him for at the very same time.

But am I the only one who would be interested in getting Mr. Trandahl to answer some questions under oath?

http://www.washingto...

The resignation rocked the Capitol, and especially Foley's GOP colleagues, as lawmakers were rushing to adjourn for at least six weeks. House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) told The Washington Post last night that he had learned this spring of some "contact" between Foley and a 16-year-old page. Boehner said he told House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), and that Hastert assured him "we're taking care of it."

It was not immediately clear what actions Hastert took. His spokesman had said earlier that the speaker did not know of the sexually charged e-mails between Foley and the boy.

And remember, these are the guys who backed the national "hate amendment" to protect the sanctity of marriage. 

From the party that brought you the anti-gay amendment:

House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) told The Washington Post last night that he had learned this spring of inappropriate "contact" between Foley and a 16-year-old page. Boehner said he then told House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.). Boehner later contacted The Post and said he could not remember whether he talked to Hastert.

It was not immediately clear what actions Hastert took. His spokesman had said earlier that the speaker did not know of the sexually charged online exchanges between Foley and the boy.

Maybe GOP stands for Gang of Pedophiles.

Well, serves them right to have it come out right before the election. Remember to vote for the party of family values -- the DEMOCRATS!

Rep. Thomas Reynolds, head of the House Republican election effort, said Saturday he told Speaker Dennis Hastert months ago about concerns that a fellow GOP lawmaker had sent inappropriate messages to a teenage boy. Hastert's office said aides referred the matter to the proper authorities last fall but they were only told the messages were "over-friendly."

But Joe at Americablog points out:

Remember one key fact: When Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-LA) first learned about the Foley e-mails, he went to Rep. Tom Reynolds, the chair of the GOP House campaign committee. Not, the Ethics Committee. Not the Speaker. Not the Capitol Police. He went to the top GOP House political operative.