"He knew all about it. He didn't think of the kids or anyone but himself."

[Hissyspit]

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/10/he-knew-all-about-it-and-didnt-do.html


"He knew all about it and didn't do a thing. He didn't think of the kids or anyone but himself."
by John in DC - 10/14/2006 10:01:00 PM


Mark Foley is taking Cong. Tom Reynolds (R-NY) down:

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-ustom1015,0,6666541.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines

Foley scandal a local issue for Reynolds
While the Foley scandal has been a problem for Republicans generally, it has special complications for Rep. Tom Reynolds.
BY JOHN RILEY
Newsday Staff Correspondent

October 14, 2006, 8:23 PM EDT


GREECE, N.Y -- Around her, the Green Acre Farm and Nursery is busy with customers snapping up apples, pumpkins and pots of mums. But co-owner Janice Hassett is happy to take a minute to vent about the local Republican congressman, Rep. Tom Reynolds, and his role in the Mark Foley page scandal.

"The whole thing makes me sick," says Hassett, 33, a staunch Republican in this staunchly Republican Rochester suburb, and -- until now -- a Reynolds voter. "My opinion of congressmen in general continues to go down, and now to have it happen in our own backyard is a shame. It's just horrible."

Seventy-five or so miles away in the Buffalo suburb of North Tonawanda, at the other end of New York's 26th Congressional District, Karen Eggert says pretty much the same thing about Reynolds, who has been under fire for not doing enough last spring when he learned about unusually personal e-mails from Foley that had upset a 16-year-old former page from Louisiana and his parents.

"He knew all about it and didn't do a thing," asserted Eggert, 47, a one-time Reynolds backer, as she rushed into a grocery store last week. "... He didn't think of the kids or anyone but himself."

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[Erika]

1. Hastert and Reynolds ignored the pedophile Foley

to keep his safe GOP seat that way.

John Walsh must truly feel betrayal by the GOP.

[vickitulsa]

3. Reckon if any of those criminal creeps try to RUN, John Walsh

will profile them on his America's Most Wanted program?

(Ouch, was that a low blow? Ah well, if ya lies down with fleabags, ya know.....)

I honestly believe a LOT of people, Repukes or not, feel betrayed by this bunch of thugs and perverts!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. Actually, Walsh was buddies with Foley apparently.

[vickitulsa]

10. Omg, really? I had heard he was "aligned" with conservatives

and that was pretty obvious from his "law and order" approach to life after he lost Adam the way he did. Didn't know he knew Foley personally -- what a major mindf*ck that must have been for him when the bad news on Foley's behavior finally came out and has received such major airplay....

Since Adam's body was never found, I think they never knew if he was sexually violated; but I understand Walsh himself believes he was, since he felt he knew who had murdered his little boy and what that guy's MO was. Such a sad, disturbing story. The emotional impact on JW (and his wife) had to be enormous and lasting. :cry:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

12. Interview with John Walsh re: Foley from YouTube--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynyt4R1nIp0

[boobooday]

2. It must really hurt

If it is beginning to sink in to some of these people that they've been duped. We should reach out to comfort them in their hour of need.

[Octafish]

4. The GOP protected child molesters.

Hastert. Reynolds. Foley. A bunch more, likely.
Even Monkey knew Foley was kryptonite before story broke.
Foley complained to Jebthro that Monkey was ignoring him when visiting Florida.
What else does Bush know?
Sure explains Gannon's sleepovers at the White House.

[magellan]

5. Does anyone else find it disturbing

...that THIS is the thing that makes Republican voters sick? I mean out of all the things BushCo and the Repugs have done?

I know we shouldn't look a gift-horse in the mouth, but DAMN.

[undeterred]

6. It was disturbing that they made a lie about a blow job impeachment worthy

so this is consistent with that.

[magellan]

7. True, what was I thinking?

I keep expecting Republicons to come around, as if they were unconscious, when the problem is they lack conscience.

[aquart]

8. Well put.

[vickitulsa]

11. Yep it fits with their "focus on the family."

What creeps me out and angers me most is that the Repukes impeached WJC for what is a much lesser sexual offense (if it was one at all), making the "issue" his lying to cover it up -- while they will no doubt think Fol-atio's run for refuge in a rehab clinic after resigning from his cushy govt job is punishment enough for one of their own.

We KNOW all their talk of "investigation" of pedofoley won't result in harsh or criminal action taken against him, right?

Isn't HYPOCRISY a glaringly obvious and disgusting thing to behold when it gets a lot of LIGHT shined on it?

[magellan]

13. It is

What they've done -- their lies and law-breaking -- is magnitudes worse than what they tried to impeach Clinton for. MAGNITUDES worse. And suddenly they're the pansy party who can't see right from wrong. Or I should say, won't see right from wrong when it concerns one of their own.

Instead of honoring their place in government and cleaning out the trash, they've mired themselves in equivocation, rationalization and flip-flopping to protect their party. Most of them are too worried about hiding their own corrupt acts to hold their colleagues accountable. That means they never deserved the honor of representing the people in government in the first place.

Thankfully it's starting to catch up with them, as it always does with liars and cheats. I hope a lot of these Repugnant bums are thrown out on their ears come November. I'll certainly be doing my part to see that happens where I live.

[never_get_over_it]

14. I knew the MINUTE I heard that Foley resigned

that Friday afternoon 9/29 that this was going to hurt them and hurt them BIG - and I was SO VERY GLAD - and at the same time SO VERY SAD that

Stealing elections didn't
Ignoring warnings of 9/11 didn't
Lying us into war didn't
Torturing and rendition didn't
Killing 100K to 300 K Iraqis didn't (that's what I thought the number probably was at that time)
Killing and wounding of our soldiers didn't
Katrina didn't
Illegal wiretapping didn't
Taking away habeas corpus didn't
Obscene corporate profits didn't
Huge deficits and debt didn't
on and
on and
on didn't

It is probably too bad for the repunks that this surfaced so close to the election - if it had happened 6 months earlier they might have swept this one under the rug too - but I truly believe that unless they rig the elections they will lose control and a BIG part of it will be this Foley scandal - because people get sex scandals and cover ups (oh and high gas prices - which is why the prices have come down before the election) - and I'll be happy for whatever it takes - but my heart breaks that so many Americans are so pathetically willfully ignorant and that this administration and their Congressional enablers have destroyed SO MUCH....

[magellan]

15. You said it all

And it is heartbreaking. I sometimes wish I'd never become politically aware; I could have done without knowing there are so many uncaring, self-serving RW idiots in America who are fine with such depths of corruption in our government as long as its by their own.

But as they say, knowledge is power.

I was actually surprised the Foley scandal took off the way it did. But I should have known, sex always grabs America's attention. The Right haven't managed to change that an iota! lol

[malaise]

17. I knew this one would stick

Rethuglicans are obsessed with matters sexual. You can kill 655,000 Iraqis, nearly 3,000 Americans plus the thousands of permanently injured; you can steal to your heart's content as well, but anything sexual is gonna get you.

The truth is that this was really the last straw. Katrina was a critical moment as well.

[never_get_over_it]

18. I hear that

I can't tell you the times I have thought and even said outloud a few times that I wish I didn't know or care about all of this - life would be SO MUCH less painful if I lived in ignorant bliss - I even tried to stay away from it all but am just unable to do so. I actually thought to myself maybe I won't even pay attention election night - just wait until the next day - too many disappointing election nights - well I know that is the biggest joke I could no more stay away from this election night than I could voluntarily stop breathing - just the way it is

Reason I wasn't surprised by the Foley thing is that he quit to darn quickly - we had barely started talking about it an boom he quit - my feeling then was there was SO MUCH more involved in this - and I'm not convinced that it has all come out yet.

[sandnsea]

16. It's the only thing that could be their kid

Nothing else that has happened has personally touched their lives or ever could, in their minds. Their kids won't go to war, won't be stranded in a hurricane, won't have votes stolen, won't want for health care, won't be confused for a protester or terrorist and whisked off to Gitmo. None of it matters to them. Except them or their friends *could* get a kid to DC, and so all the sudden, this matters.

Self-centered bastards.