Rahm Emanuel likely knew of Foley e-mail in 2005
posted at 3:35 pm on December 10, 2006 by Allahpundit
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I already mentioned that the House Ethics Committee report claimed the DCCC had copies of the “send me a picture of you” e-mail last fall. What I didn’t mention is that Rahm Emanuel was DCCC chair at the time, that the e-mail landed in the hands of one of his top aides, and that he nevertheless went on Stephanopoulos’s show two months ago and did a bit of Clintonian verbal hair-splitting about it that would have made his old boss blush. Newsbusters has a great rundown. “Were you aware?” “Nobody saw the e-mail.” “But were you aware?” “Nobody saw it.” Etc etc.
No less a personage than Glenn Ellensburg Ellison is ripping Emanuel a new one this morning and earning plaudits from Captain Ed and A.J. Strata for doing so. Well and good, but let’s not kid ourselves — Greenwald isn’t exactly typing through tears here, Emanuel having been on the nutroots hit list for awhile now thanks to his moderate leanings. If he were to turn around tomorrow and introduce articles of impeachment against Bush, you’d see the distinction between having “seen” an e-mail and having been “aware” of it suddenly become a lot clearer and more significant to an awful lot of people.
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Gingrich said that the trail of slime led right to Emanuel’s doorstep.
ahem on December 10, 2006 at 3:45 PM
This is one of those stories where I don’t need actual documentation to know the truth. As soon as the Foley story hit the wires I knew it was a set-up by the dems. Let’s go back for a moment to the 04 election and a surprising result to some that came out of that. Rove had stated on many occasions that there were about 4 or 5 million evangelicals that the GOP had not tapped into yet-this was his mission for 2004. Well, he succeeded, dems were scratching their heads wondering where all these repubs came from. In the polling data was this tid-bit; values ranked right up there with terrorism as a reason to vote…meaning the GOP was better on the war and values. This stunned the dems. They knew they were a loser on national security, but they didn’t see the values issue coming. So, the next two years were spent trying to ingratiate themselves with christains, with little success. This left them with one option; run conservative candidates and create a wedge between the GOP and evangelicals. Foley was wrong, a sleaze. I’m glad he’s gone, good riddance. But to think no dem knew of his activities long ago, give me a break. They sat on this, along with their buddies in the media. This was to be used at the maximum exploitation juncture…just before the 06 elections. I know libs, I know how they operate. The pages? To hell with them, we have power to recapture. The Clinton political dirty tricks team was in full operation…..
ritethinker on December 10, 2006 at 4:08 PM
Let me be the second to say: I’m outraged!
But also, I question the timing…
Jaibones on December 10, 2006 at 4:14 PM
It is too late guys. The election is over.
Ouabam on December 10, 2006 at 4:16 PM
I qeustion the insanity of the repubs and independents to fall for it.
Roger, Ouabam. We got what we asked for. Or what we didn’t do anything about.
Entelechy on December 10, 2006 at 4:18 PM
What did the Democrat Party know, and when did they know it?
I can forsee this phrase popping up a few more times in the next two years.
Good Lt on December 10, 2006 at 4:21 PM
I don’t want to draw rolley eyes here but … think about it.
One Angry Christian on December 10, 2006 at 4:22 PM
It would matter very little even if we were to find out that the Democrats had actively set up Foley. They operate to a very different standard. Personally I don’t think Foleygate had that much of an impact on the election.
Buzzy on December 10, 2006 at 4:25 PM
on conservative blogs … sure, but the media wont touch this, and if they do it’ll be short lived. Fox might run a blurb on it, but unless someone comes forward and hits the press in the face with a document wrapped around a rock this story will be over in a week … maybe two if the conservative radio shows bother with it.
It’ll make a goodp punch line for a political ad, but it’s of little effect considering people don’t really care … unless it’s a conservative because the media hasn’t told them to care.
sad, but true.
One Angry Christian on December 10, 2006 at 4:27 PM
Yup, and they all know how much a bunch of crooks and liars their party members are, but they will always get a pass on their behavior by their constituents and the MSM.They can literally get away with murder and robbery and get re-elected and praised in print, so I do not know what level of debauchery they would have to sink to for any one on their side of the aisle to even care.
bbz123 on December 10, 2006 at 4:37 PM
Somehow, someway, we need to apply “The Chicago Way” to these slimeball Democrats.
georgej on December 10, 2006 at 4:47 PM
I still believe that the real outrage is being ignored, and that is that the Democrat Party is responsible for fanning the flames of Homophobia. Period!
The Foley debacle has ended up in a decision that no crimes were committed, Democrat politicians always lie, most of those who vote for Democrats are mindless Tools who couldn’t care less about any issue than if they were dead, and the proof of my last statement will be the nonexistant outcry from those liberal Tools when their politicians fail to take action on any issue they ran on.
Just to play devils advocate; the cut-and-run Republicans, and Libertarians, have nothing to brag about either. Not 1 damn single thing.
DannoJyd on December 10, 2006 at 5:13 PM
It is too late guys. The election is over.
Ouabam on December 10, 2006 at 4:16 PM
Yeah and that may not be all thats over. The Dems are going to work hard and fast to dismantel this country. I think we are going to experience some unprecedented agenda biased voting in the new congress. Lets call in the UN for a recount!
sonnyspats1 on December 10, 2006 at 5:28 PM
sonnyspats1, I disagree with you as I’ve watched Democrats break more campaign promises than America has killed terrorists. I believe they will work on legislation that they believe Bush will sign, they will work to be as compromising as is pollible for a liberal, and the reason for that is they want the White House.
I plan to keep pressure on those who voted for what democrats ran on as that will remain relevant.
DannoJyd on December 10, 2006 at 5:38 PM
Danno, fully agree – also with your next post. That’s why it’s so hopeless. There is no alternative to both.
Entelechy on December 10, 2006 at 7:37 PM
Entelechy, there is always hope, and working to make our fellow Americans wake up is always an honorable task.
I plan to run the liberal Congress right down the throats of those who allowed it to happen. I have no doubt that the elected Democrats will be more than happy to make my task easier.
DannoJyd on December 10, 2006 at 10:56 PM
We woke up after the Maine…oops, screwed the pooch on that one, coal fire in the forward bunkers set of the ammo magazine. Still kicked Spains ass though. The Lusitania woke us up a little bit and after we put our two cents in “Over There” we stuck our head in the sand and played nice isolationist. We woke up after Pearl Harbor…oops again…darn those Japanese and their pesky (breakable) codes…we could have surrendered and sat out the war learning to speak Nipponese und Duetsch! We slept through the first Trade Center bombing, Somalia, assorted and sundry “isolated incidents” and then woke up when the Twin Towers went down. Then my party…my Republican party hit the snooze button and looked the other way when it came to borders, the problems in Iraq and the late great election. Hope is a stinking little backwater cesspool somewhere in Arkansas that one of the most beloved criminals in American history hails from. So, wake me when its almost too late…oops III, it may be too late already!
Sorry guys, had to extract the poison from my soul, apologies to Hope and any backwater cesspools I may have offended.
serenity on December 10, 2006 at 11:43 PM
Looks to me like Emanuel is being set up by the Dems to become their Karl Rove. Personally, Emanuel the slimeball has no chance. He’s dirty. I, too, believe that the liberals will try to hide their true colors until the ‘08 elections are over.
lynnv on December 11, 2006 at 8:30 AM
Give it a rest. Focus. Mark Foley, preditory homosexual pediphile, Republican, Embarrassing, Mark Foley head of child preditory and internet safety, price less and really embarrassing and disgusting. GOP leadership knew for years? repugnant.
The GOP knew and that is what counts. What should be the headline is the bipartisan investigation found Mark Foley did nothing wrong !!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope Florida gets Mark Foley for solicitation of lurid lascivious behavior with minors per current laws.
Yea so what the Dems knew. ha ha ha ha, they just learned how to “swift boat” from the GOP. Dirty politics like this was invented by the GOP. One word Nixon. I love how republicans can dish out a can of whoopass but when the tables turn they cry like a bunch of 5 year old girls, waaaaa, liberal media, waaaaa, Dems knew, waaaaa, waaaaa.
Also stop with the Dems and the liberals will try to hide their true colors”. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN??? Stop with all the predjuduce and stereotypes per Rush Limbaugh. If you just looked at the last 6 years and knew nothing of politics or the world, you would think the Republicans where pro, corruption, inefficiency, incompetence, laziness and gay sex with children. Stop, take your lumps and hold your party accountable. Stop blaming the Dem’s, its useless and makes you look dumb. Only one junior republican congressman from NC came out and made the allegation the Dems where MORE culpable on fox news when the new broke. Idiot. No doubt the GOP would be “ordered” to day it publicly. I am sure he got some GOP party points to cash in for his partisan politics.
If you blame the Dems than you blame the GOP party 1,000 times more. It’s their mess. Sick sick sick, is the feeling I get when I think of Mark Foley and Ted Haggard. There pictures should be next to the word hypocrisy.
gmcjetpilot on December 11, 2006 at 7:24 PM
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