Along With Victories, G.O.P. Takes a Few Blows

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Just hours before Congress closed down for the midterm elections on Saturday, Republican leaders threw together a ceremony to celebrate the passage of what they hoped to promote as their singular legislative accomplishment — a bill to bring terrorism suspects to trial.

But after House and Senate leaders formally signed the measure for the cameras, the only questions they faced from assembled reporters pertained to Representative Mark Foley, the Florida Republican who had just resigned after accusations that he sent sexually explicit Internet messages to teenage pages.

“None of us are very happy about it,” Speaker J. Dennis Hastert said before abruptly calling a halt to the questions, and the ceremony.

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The highly publicized case of Mr. Foley, who served in the House leadership as a deputy whip, threatened to build into an institutional scandal as House leaders acknowledged that they had known about the messages for nearly a year, but had relied on Mr. Foley’s word that nothing inappropriate had occurred.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/washington/01memo.html?hp&ex=1159675200&en=f4ae9ee2fcbdf0ec&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Poor little Deny Hassturd. Had to shut down his victory party

before someone asked any embarrassing questions about why he covered up for a Puggy pedophile for at least a year.

[Skittles]

3. clarification, Jackpine

those republican bastards had their pro-torture party disrupted by reporters questioning their decision to let a known sexual predator keep "performing" for a year

[zanne]

2. Remember when Denny was an impeachment manager?

I'll never forget how these same people went after Clinton.

[Demit]

4. House leaders think "nothing inappropriate had occurred"?

Discussing sexual practices with teenage boys, asking does he make them horny, that's appropriate?

No cause for worry for the House leaders—they had Foley's "word", that fine upstanding human being, that he wasn't being inappropriate. Sickening values, just sickening.