Foley checks into rehab

[Ino]

http://tinyurl.com/nwf72

WASHINGTON - Former Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record), under FBI investigation for e-mail exchanges with teenage congressional pages, has checked himself into rehabilitation facility for alcoholism treatment and accepts responsibility for his actions, his attorney acknowledged Monday.

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"I strongly believe that I am an alcoholic and have accepted the need for immediate treatment for alcoholism and other behavioral problems," Foley said in a statement, Roth told the AP.

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"I deeply regret and accept full responsibility for the harm I have caused," Foley said. He also expressed "gratitude for the prayers and words of encouragement that have been conveyed to me."

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White House press secretary Tony Snow, asked about that Monday on ABC's "Good Morning America," urged greater efforts to "figure out what happened here." He called it "a terrible story" and said he considered it unfortunate that "people are thinking, 'OK, can I get political advantage out of this'."

This is the first I've heard of alcoholism! Is this supposed to be a mitigating factor? Funny... he strongly believes he's an alcoholic, but not a predator :D

And Snow can go F himself. The Repugs opened the door to taking political advantage of private behavior -- and in Clinton's case it wasn't even against the law.

[gatorboy]

1. So the Republicans have protected a DRUNK pedophile for a year.

Even better! :rofl:

[Bluzmann57]

2. So I got drunk yesterday

while watching football. Does that make me a sexual predator? Nope, it just made me drunk. The point is that it ain't the alcohol, it's the person.

[NV Whino]

3. Can you say, "spin"?

"alcoholism and other behavioral problems,"

Other behavior problems? (Do we have a tearing the hair out smilie?)

[Avalux]

4. Read: "it's not his fault; it was the alcohol."

This sort of spin is supposed to make people think that when Mark Foley wasn't drunk, he behaved appropriately and ethically. It was only when he got drunk that he did things he wouldn't normally do - poor guy.

So whether or not he's an alcoholic - going to rehab and perhaps finding Jesus will absolve him of any wrongdoing. It's just another way of not taking responsibility for one's actions.

[Hubert Flottz]

5. They all must have been drunk when they passed the Patriot Act

and the Torture and Wiretapping bills.

[flordehinojos]

6. treating alcoholism when the problem is pedophilia is like

taking out a lung when what needs to be removed is the gallbladder (something like that. you get the point).

[Swamp Rat]

7. Pedophilia has nothing to do with alcoholism - they are separate diseases.

Pedophiles, like Mark Foley, cannot be cured. They must be locked up for the safety of all our children.

[Hubert Flottz]

8. The GOPers are shooting up Viagra I'll bet!

Bob Dole's fault!

[Swamp Rat]

9. Well, we know they take Oxycontin, cocaine, and so-called designer drugs

Maybe that makes rape, pillage, torture, and mass murder easy to do? :shrug: