Cappice?

I find it quite interesting that some of the ‘token leftists’ at those places who were calling Michelle names and cursing her existence a couple of days ago are now happily quoting (and misquoting) her on this subject ‘because she agrees with them that ALL the Republicans are scum and should resign’.

I’m distilling and paraphrasing…. But food for thought..OK?

Comprende?

Actually no, I don’t speak Spanish.

Update: The Democratic playbook — literally:
1. Pay no heed to the distinction between the e-mails and IMs. There’s no evidence (yet) that any Republican leaders knew about Foley’s cybersex IMs. There’s plenty of evidence that they knew how uncomfortable the “overly friendly” e-mails made at least one page. So the Dems will press the GOP on what they knew about the former and will constantly, in their press releases, refer to the “GOP’s knowledge of the sexually explicit e-mails.”
Pointing out what a nasty, underhanded tactic this is apparently constitutes “making excuses” for Mark Foley.
Update: Lorie Byrd’s disgusted with the WashTimes, too.
Update: Perfect. Not only does the WashTimes cynically call for Hastert’s head to roll ASAP to get this scandal off voters’ radar screens, they want to nominate as his successor Mr. Impeachment himself, Henry Hyde. Brilliant, Tony Blankley.

thirteen28, how on earth could you have read what I wrote and come up with that? Where did I even hint at ignoring the Democrats, or anyone else who sat on this information? Did you not understand when I said “anyone from either party?” To me, this isn’t much different from a teacher who is a predator of children and the principal and other teachers knew about it. When you look the other way, you’re an enabler. Period.

That’s ok, you don’t need to reply. Unlike you, I don’t know who is guilty. However, I can surmise from your last sentence, you already know who is guilty and who is not.

moonsbreath – my thoughts weren’t what I read into your post, they were a springboard for my own thoughts. If you read the beginning of this thread where Allah and Michelle are in disagreement, and note that my position squares with Allah’s on this issue. If you do, you will see that I agree with you that anyone who knew what Foley was doing but chose to hide it should walk the plank the same as he does.

You will also figure out that I don’t think questioning the DNC/media complex’s possible sitting on these revelations until they could be sprung on the public at the most politically opportune time to be the equivalent to apologizing for Foley’s behavior in any way shape or form. And finally, you might figure out that my thought Republicans losing their cool and eating their own over this in an effort to appear to be taking the high road is exactly what will lead to Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid.

Comprende?

Well look at this way my RW friends–it keeps Iraq off the front page.

Shhhh, that’s why Rove did it. Foley isn’t a real person, he’s a cyborg fall guy. Just like he caused the dip in oil today and then Turkish plane hijacking to scare us. Couple it all with the Atta tape…. It’s all coming together MWAHAHAHAAA. And now time for the Bushinati to take over the world!

Anyway, I don’t think ANYONE is making excuses for Foley. he’s a sick bastard. but it is curious that some of these events happened several years back and even “curiouser” that these facts are just now coming to light. Why did it take so long? what were they waiting for? an election, maybe?????

I think Hastert would have been a fool to sit on this, knowing the political implications of doing so. but i’ve been fooled in the past… it will be interesting to see how this all pans out in November.

I am no fan of Hastert but find it hard to believe he swept this under the rug deliberately. On the other, if he didn’t then Reynolds is lying.

Well look at this way my RW friends–it keeps Iraq off the front page. It’s an ill wind indeed.

That’s ok, you don’t need to reply. Unlike you, I don’t know who is guilty. However, I can surmise from your last sentence, you already know who is guilty and who is not.

Anyone, regardless of either party, who knew about Foley and his predator exploitation of children, should resign. This man should have been stopped when the first hint became clear. Whether or not it was emails or IM’s, Republicans or Democrats, people knew and made the choice not to do anything. It’s too bad our system doesn’t punish enablers.

Nah, we on the conservative side should engage in all kinds of self-flagellation and hand-wringing, turn on each other, call for the heads of our own congressional leadership while completely ignoring any evidence that the DNC-media complex sat on this information and allowed Foley to continue to indulge in his predatory perversions so that they could reavel it at a more convenient time.

This is called taking the high road.

/sarcasm off

Enjoy Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid.

If you doubted that I was wrong when I said that Democrats were going to play politics with this mess, you, my friend, were sadly mistaken:

Here’s Dems’ playbook:

1. Pay no heed to the distinction between the e-mails and IMs. There’s no eviden…

But I can also see a large portion of Americans following the words of Thomas Jefferson. The gist being “A strong right to bear arms is necasary for the people to rise up and wrest control from a government that has grown tyranical”

Should Speaker of the House Denny Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist resign or otherwise be removed from their posts? Given that their inept leadership has made it far more likely that the Democrats will take over their respective Houses of …

Here’s part of it:

The stakes involve no less than control of Congress.

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The target is this narrative is the House leadership for its “failure” to “protect” the pages from a presumed sexual predator. As Clarice Feldman has explained, this “blame the leadership” narrative rests on the public conflating the early emails, which were merely inappropriate (”overly friendly”) with salacious IM texts, which the leadership only learned of from the press.

Of course, it is risible that a party which harbored Gerry Studds, and still boasts Barney Frank as a senior and respected Member of Congress would point a finger at Republicans, who demanded and got Foley’s resignation from the House as soon as conclusive evidence surfaced of genuine misconduct (albeit misconduct milder than that of Studds, who engaged in sex with a male page who was a minor, or Frank, whose apartment was used as HQ of a male escort service run by his boyfriend).

But the hypocritical posturing of the Democrats could still work for them. The targeted GOP voters don’t care if Democrats have engaged in worse conduct and lived to cast votes in Congress. They expect nothing at all from Democrats, but demand much more from their own leadership. There are few issues as potent as protecting teens from sexual predators, hetero- or homosexual. The issue hits even lower than the gut.

The intent is to demoralize moral conservatives, and get them to stay home in early November.

Ladies and gentlemen,

On the purely practical politics of winning the election, irrespective of Foley himself, unless conservatives and Republicans want to live under Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid, we face individual and collective destruction.

If the Democrats win control of Congress, they will pass a new “fairness doctrine” and YOU will be silenced, as will Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and the rest of conservative talk radio and blogs, including Hot Air.

President Bush WILL be impeached by the House. You can take that to the bank. Whether he is removed by the Senate will depend on how bad the Democratic Party sweep will be. Ditto for Cheney. By my estimate, it is possible, with the NE RINOS voting with them, that the Democrats will make Nancy Pelosi, the 1st woman President by removing both Bush and Cheney.

If the Democrats win control of Congress, kiss goodby any firearms you own. Sarah Brady won’t stop with so-called “assault weapons” — she will want them all banned.

Say hello to the “death tax” and higher income taxes AND Social Security taxes. Watch how the Democrats will all of a sudden discover that Social Security and Medical are about to fail.

And say hello to your new illegal alien neighbor — because the Democrats WILL pass “amnesty” and “open borders” and “fast-track citizenship and voting rights.”

The war on terrorism? FORGEDDABOUTIT!

The Democrats WILL immediately cut and run from Iraq AND Afghanistan. The NSA and the SWIFT programs will be TERMINATED. There will be no interrogations of Al Qaeda terrorists without their ACLU lawyers present. Gitmo will be shut down — Dick Durbin will see to that.

Expect to see a major American city struck and struck hard, with thousands of deaths. Hey, it’s just a “law enforcement problem,” not a “war.” So, some city will have another hole in the ground, the cops will come and “take a report” and issue a report number, and make sure the paperwork is completed. And President Pelosi, like Clinton, won’t waste her time with a Presidential visit.

The military? Watch for most of the military to quit — and not be replaced because the Democrats *WILL* cut the defense budget.

Judges? President Pelosi will insure that all US districts will look like the 9th — only leftist America-haters need apply.

And what are some of us doing about it?

I’ve read the Washington Times editorial

However, I don’t see how asking for the heads of the House Republican leadership starting with Hastert will either (1) appease the Democrats and the media, or (2) convince the conservative and Republican base and moderate-independents to turn out and vote to retain Republican control of Congress.

Because the drumbeat won’t stop by sacrificing Hastert and Boehner and Reynolds. The Democratic talking points and strategy are already up at http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/010107.php

And they mean to DESTROY the Republican Party — and then to make sure that they never, ever lose control of the government again.

Lifson, in his American Thinker article nails it:

In order to keep the Drive-Bys from driving on, a compelling question must grab public attention. Such a question exists: the Strange Case of the Black Ops Blog.

Foley is scum. Good riddance to bad rubish.

But it is time to move on and keep our eyes on the prize!

If the “values voters” stay home Nov. 7, that’s it, OK? The Republican Congress is over, history, toast. If it takes drastic action to appease the “value voters,” then the GOP had better get real drastic, real quick. It’s either “Goodbye, Speake…

Foley has no excuse for his behavior. It is not justifiable. And he must not be given a pass.

I have pointed out elsewhere that there are others who are complicit in the endangering of the young man.

Those people are the members of Congress who knew about his predatory behavior towards the pages; specifically this page.

Any member of Congress who had knowledge of these IMs and did not come should be expelled from Congress and, if appropriate, prosecuted as an accessory after the fact. The same applies to any staff employee.

The reaction of the Democrats and the way this scandal was broken indicates that there were Democrat leaders who had knowledge of this and withheld notification of Foley’s behavior to the authorities for POLITICAL reasons.

This is inexcuseable. It is not only being an accessory to a crime, it is a cold, calculated act to leave the young man in jeopardy in order to advance their agenda to regain control of Congress.

I am angry at Foley and any Republican that tried to cover this up, if any.

But I am even more angry at the Democrats for feasting on this like ghouls, and for deliberately letting Foley continue his behavior because the time was not politically ripe.

So, WHAT DID NANCY PELOSI AND RAHM EMANUEL KNOW AND WHEN DID THEY KNOW IT?

But even though I’m not focused on the politics of it, the stench of hypocrisy from Dems who’ve spent years telling us “Everyone lies about sex…” is too much. You just know that somewhere right now Bill Clinton is sticking out that bottom lip and tsk tsking over this.

We can deal with the stench of hypocrisy later. First we need to clean up the stench of predatory behavior and cover-up.