Howie Klein follows local House races closer than anybody — some would say closer than the DCCC. He’s been on the story of Mark Foley for months now (having written 79 count ‘em posts on the subject), and today Foley (who is chair of the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus) resigned as the result of a scandal created when he tried to pick up an underaged congressional page.
This is exactly why a 50 State Strategy is so important — you never know when this stuff is going to happen, especially when you’re dealing with Republicans. It’s a vindication of Howard Dean’s work, and even Rahm Emmanuel should be happy (he managed to drive out our Blue America candidate, Dave Lutrin, in favor of apostate Republican Tim Mahoney back in March).
Chalk up another in the long list of GOP sex scandals. Then go pat Howie Klein on the back, he was on this one long before anybody else.
It’s sure to re-ignite the saga of the Sick Bastards of the GOP, but that’s always one of my favorite topics anyway so I’m not complaining.
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FITZ!
*!
EPU’d, but here’s an encore. From the rock opera ‘Tommy’, it’s Uncle Foley.
Parental discretion advised.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQo-kFCJDYw
Reading ABC, it seems the most solid dirt is in IM’s:
A Republican in a solid seat doesn’t resign this fast without some serious shit coming down the pipe.
Seems he knows it too:
Now the question is, how far did he get in his solicitations?
my 16 yr old son was a page in the state legislature last spring. this sends chills up my spine. you can bet i’m going to show this story to him.
We must ask ourselves: Are children safe around GOP congressmen?
Should we not just lock up all Republican congressmen now, just to be safe, and ask questions later?
I believe the Bush Administration’s extra-judicial activities in the GWOT have provided us with a suitable model for how to deal with this crisis.
Can we expect Nancy Grace, Greta Van Sustren, and the rest of the Missing White Woman Brigade to cover this story 24/7 in all it’s lurid detail?
two beers @ 6
Spotlight storm ON!
I’m not certain what it says about our country that so many of these sickos happen to be politicians. And yeah, most of them do appear to also be Christianist Republicans.
How do you spin this one Rush?
As my husband likes to say, “Scratch a moralist, get a hypocrite.”
Here’s a riddle.
Why don’t GOP congressmen use bookmarks?
TRex @ 9
A. Because they always have their fingers on a page?
Retracted by poster due to issues of taste.
They just bend over the pages!!
Reminds me of all the closeted homosexuality that went on in the Third Reicht. This is just topping to go on the ‘we torture at will’ party.
Enjoy.
The more they hate homosexuality, the more likely that it’s because they are scared of what is in their own mind.
TRex @ 13
You can bet there bending a few pages in Woodwards new book!
Dr. Sinker asks:
DrSinker @
8
It’s a lot harder to get up every morning and act like a Christianist Republican rather than a normal human being. Sometimes you need a break. Sometimes you need more than one break. Sometimes you need to break something. And sometimes something inside you just breaks.
Ask the Preznit: It’s hard, hard work.
Values? Those are just pieces on the checkerboard. Adapting to win is hard, too.
And young people are so resilient.
Legalize Torture? Have a Nice Uday!
http://freewayblogger.blogspot…..llery.html
If it was a Dem getting caught doing this, I’d immediately be suspicious over the timing of the busting.
You don’t suppose this was timed to deflate the ‘brilliant victory’ the Rethugs had yesterday, do you? Howie?
Nahhh.
“The Republican Leadership in Congress put a pedophile in charge of the committee to protect our most vulnerable children.”
I’m tired of playing nice. Tie Foley to the leadership’s inability to exercise good judgment on any topic whatsoever.
Also, some interesting questions: did Congressman Foley have a security clearance? Did making advances towards underage boys make him vulnerable in any way to blackmail? (Admittedly, this question kind of answers itself.) Did anyone in the leadership have the slightest hint of that? If so, did they report it? If not, why not?
Did I mention I’m tired of playing nice?
TRex @
13
Republican Congressmen: God’s gift to comedy writing, God’s curse to humanity
Professor Foland @
20
Talk about your talking points! Excellent.
Hey, from the ‘Long Lost Twins Separated at Birth’ staff:
The picture above looks just like the picture of MalKKKin that we all love so much. The one with her cheeks puffed out like a Rabid Autumn Squirrel?
Who can do a side-by-side?
“Score” another one for the pederast party. Lunatics and creeps, with bad hair.
I think another validation of the 50-state strategy was provided by the GOP in Connecticut. You pointed out to the one right-wing commenter who showed up to post an opinion yesterday on the Schlessinger matter that if the GOP had taken the race seriously, they might be leading right now. Instead, they just came up with a placeholder, and now here they are in a distant third. Now the best they can hope for is that an unreliable once-Democratic ally will win.
From Josh Marshall’s TPMmuckraker: http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001642.php
“Heckuva job Foley, heh heh heh.”
The GOP: they say they can protect us from the terrorists, but who protects us from the GOP?
The party of sadists, perverts, and thieves.
The McGreevey comparisons should start any minute now. Frankly, the speed of the resignation is a bit surprising to me. Even if the IMs are especially salacious, he’s still got plausible deniability. (”I should never have given Senator Clinton my password.”) I think he’s either about to get indicted, or his co-conspirators (Kenny? Karlita? Is that you?) want to get rid of him as quickly as possible before anyone starts looking at this any more closely.
We are getting quite a collection by now: Cunningham(R), Ney(R) and now Foley(R) and that is only the tip of the iceberg(R).
Did the Congressman ever use government-owned computers to make his advances? If so, do any records kept by the House IT show these contacts?
If we really want to have some fun: does the NSA have any relevant records that could be subpoened?
TRex @
10
Why TRex, you little Sphinx you?
Anne @ 1:41 pm (#28)
It’s ironic that they try to paint the Democrats with that label, to say the least.
Who’s arm do we have to twist off to get rid of Rahm? So much damage coming from this guy. So much anti-democracy.
Foley;
Providing us another “I never met the man” moment.
If we really want to have some fun: does the NSA have any relevant records that could be subpoened?
Ooh, I’m glad you’re on our side, Professor! (Good question!)
Here’s hoping that someone with skill is Googling for pictures of Foley with other favorites.
Junya? Jeb? Abramoff?
A campaigner against child molestation, no less. Here’s hoping for the ultimate in political irony: He gets prosecuted under his own law.
It really is mind-blowing how the strict father constructionists have the least control over their impulses. Now you know why they all favor giving their power away to God’s Chosen President. Save us (from ourselves). Protect us (from ourselves).
The fact that the Christian Right falls all over themselves to worship at the GOP alter really shows how prone these people are to simply follow and not think a wit for themselves. WWJD indeed!
To steal a line from the Rethugs,
What will we tell the children?
The FireDogLake Martini lounge is now open. Our special today, in honor of that brush clearin’ waterboardin’ desperado:
Who wants one?
Is this just the GOP MO? Saw this over at ABlog…
Wonder how he voted on torture?
Twisted Martini @ 41
Leave out the butter, the schnapps, and the Bailey’s, and yes, I’ll have a Scotch.
And one Bourbon, and one Beer.
OT: like the snark in this one: http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0929-24.htm
Meanwhile, this one cuts to the bone: http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0929-30.htm
That’s one serious list of people and I love all the quotes at the end from ex-(GOP) Presidents.
I accompanied my Congresslady when she was rushed back to Washington DC for that strange midnight vote on Terry Schiavo. I saw other Congresscritters hustling into the Capitol – as a political junkie it was fun trying to identify them. One guy slowed down as he walked by me, stared intently and cruised me up and down (elevator eyes). I blinked and he continued on by. Then I realized: that was Mark Foley – evil Republican of the Impeachment Panel!
emptywheel has posted this: http://thenexthurrah.typepad.c……html#more
From Mr. Foley’s web site:
GOP’s Mark Foley website
Anne @ 28
“Or: If they won’t protect our children, how can they protect us?”
Twisted Martini @ 41
I’m never one to turn down a Cowboy.
Frank Probst @
29
Most likely to me, as one who has worked with child abuse and child abuse prevention agencies, is that more than one page is involved in this mess and Foley’s lawyer is trying to stop the bleeding. “If you want to minimize – not avoid, but minimize – any jail time, we’ve got to get this off the front page now, and that means resigning. Period. If you don’t, you can look for another lawyer who will give you different advice – and good luck in finding one.”
Titanyum @ 30
Here is a nice list – Grand Old Docket
If blowjobs are involved, I demand a multimillion dollar investigation.
Is Ken Starr available?
God, I wish Feeney was next.
You know Olbermann’s going to be all over this, as Florida’s his favorite Oddball state.
You know, it’s like Randi always says – Rove’s got to have photos of all these CongressCritters to keep them in line. Seems like Foley’s been an easy target for blackmail. Who knows what the Bush guys have on him.
Peterr @ 50
I agree that there are probably MANY pages involved, but I doubt his lawyer is involved yet. If Foley was stupid enough to get in this kind of mess to begin with, he’s probably too stupid to call his lawyer before the cops show up. Unless, of course, his lawyer saw the news and called him. If that’s the case, he’s got a damn good lawyer. Doubt it, though. There’s far more to this story, methinks.
P J Evans @ 36
The more I think about it the more it might generate public support for the wiretapping even as it puts the Republican Congressional leadership in an ugly place (similar to where they ended up with the search of Jefferson’s office.) Not sure what I think about it now.
But right now I’m just trying to brainstorm ways that this highlights generic problems with GOP rule. Not all the ideas can be gems…
*ilson46201 @ 45
Cruised by someone with a thing for young teenage boys? When was the last time you got carded, *ilson? You must look a *lot* younger than you are.
Balrog @ 43
How very Muddy Waters of you.
Or was that Leadbelly?
TRex @ 57
John Lee Hooker wrote it, George Therogood covered it.
Peterr @ 57
Warning: Possible catfight in near future.
Yahoo News Photo of Hastert, Frist and Boehner trying to explain this to the press. There should be a transcript?
‘Splaining to do!
“Trust Republicans to keep Americans safe.” — Dennis Hastert
Breaking News: CURFEW IMPOSED in Iraq.
Just announced by Ed Shultz on his show.
There’s got to be some diagnosis like Republican Personality Disorder. This stuff keeps coming, and I think it’s because they are a) twisted into some strange inhuman postures in the GOP, and b)assume the Family Values stuff will allow them the cover they want for despicable behavior.
I know that’s true in churches, too. It’s the wacky wingnuts who have the most scandals. The most conservative Christians have the highest divorce rates, too.
Who knew that the reddest states have the highest divorce rates?
There’s something to this.
Foley seems like the kind of guy who goes for quick blowjobs in a Capitol Mens Room (not that there is necessarily wrong with that if both are over 18yo!)
*ilson46201 @ 45
As I recall, you put this on the record previously, long before any of today’s mess became known–sometime in the early summer, I think? But I couldn’t find the thread. You should find it, *ilson–don’t pass up your big chance to say “I told you so!” :)
Frank Probst @ 55
John Aravosis at AmericaBlog says that someone sent him the emails months ago, but because he couldn’t verify them, he didn’t run with it. This mess has probably been percolating for a while, and something behind the scenes pushed Foley into resigning today.
That could be any (or several) of a long list of things: impending charges being filed, additional victims coming forward, media outlets getting a hold of the emails and calling for a comment, . . .
But the timing still is interesting. He sticks around long enough to get the detainee stuff through, then resigns when Congress goes into recess . . .
Let’s also watch to see who helps to pay Foley’s legal bills – it’s not going to be cheap.
I won’t be surprised if the PRO-TORTURE party hasn’t already started proceedings in Congress to retroactively legalize pedophilia, just to be on the safe side.
and to add to this evening’s entertainment of graft, corruption and sex scandals… NBC news will be asking the the question:
seems they can’t stop the in-fighting long enough to appoint someone… you’d think they’d want to clear that up before the elections…
edit: linky
Mark Warner on Lamont, from MyDD
I pushed his staff really hard on this last week at the Warner-Webb fundraiser, saying a large number of party activists and progressives viewed stronger support for Lamont as a “litmus test.” That phrase from you guys directly to the campaign people.
Warner:
“Ned Lamont and I come from the business world – where results matter and no one considers it a good day’s work to have just poked the other side in the eye and gotten nothing done. That’s now how it is right now in Washington . Ned Lamont gets it. Washington needs an entrepreneurial approach, Washington needs Ned Lamont….
I agree that we need a plan to get out of Iraq —and real action to make us safer. Most alarmingly this week, the latest National Intelligence Estimate concludes “that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.” Think about it.
…It’s time for congressional leadership that will stand up to the current administration and move America forward. It’s time to put Ned Lamont in the U.S. Senate.”
i agree there must be some really salacious details to this story for him to flush his political carreer that fast. i just read about the first questionable emails yesterday. while they were a touch odd, there was nothing overtly sexual in them. the new im’s must just be full on smut. and in this day and age what sort of idiot politician are you to send dirty electronic messages to an underage boy.
Some enterprising blogger needs to put up a website where we can get a comprehensive overview and information on all the scandalous stuff that the GOP has been caught at in recent years. And just to be fair, let’s include the Democrats as well. I think they would profit from the comparison.
Found it!
Name: *ilson46201 |
full disclosure: I was in the cloakroom (not restroom!) of Congress the night of the Schiavo vote — I was given a hard cruise by GOP Representative Mark Foley of Florida. I was startled by the obviousness of it.
Posted Jul 27, 8:29 PM
OldSchool @ 68
Can you say “Bunnatine Greenhouse”?
Andrea Mitchell (tool) talking about Boobie’s book on Hardballs.
This story will carry the weekend news cycle.
Works for me
Alison @ 63: I think it may be partly the rigid views. No flexibility, no change allowed, so anything can produce enough stress to break the whole structure.
Randi Rhodes just had Justin Franks who wrote “Bush on the Couch” and was a psychoanalysts for the CIA for 10 yrs…… This new law follows with Bush’s bullying personality. Very interesting interview
Bush – “History doesn’t matter because we will all be dead”
But…. But…..What about my grandchildren?
*ilson46201 @ 72
Is that a hard cruise in your pants or are you just happy to see me?
*ilson46201 @ 72
Bravo for outing RoughTrade Foley!
Alison @ 63
According to a few textbooks haunting my shelves, one name for the something is “projection”.
Apologies for O/T.
I guess I just hold on to my anger a bit too long. Everyone else seems to be having fun..
But I was following through on the promises I made to Sherrod Brown yesterday.
I informed him that as a protest against his vote in favor of the Military Commissions aka “Torture” bill:
1) I will not make any more contributions to Democratic candidates for 06;
2) I will explain to each of the campaigns I have supported in the past why I am taking this action. Specifically, it is a protest against Brown’s self-serving, unprincipled and plain stupid decision to vote for this bill. The ludicrous and insulting “excuse” for his behavior that Brown posted on his website did not help matters either.
3) To hammer home the point, I sent a $50 contribution to DeWine, his opponent, and copied the receipt to Brown. DeWine’s politics are odious and he’s a major Bush enabler; in fact I object to almost everything he stands for. But this was not just a gratuitous display of emotion; rather it was the only action I could think of that might persuade Brown not to take our support for granted.
Actually #3 was contingent: I would not contribute to DeWine if the Brown campaign provided a satisfactory explanation. Either that, or an apology for the misjudgment would have been acceptable.
Some people may think I took this protest too far. But it is the only way I could think of to serve notice on these arrogant bastards that they must abide by a least a minimal standard of decency if they want our money and support to continue.
I’m not going to suggest that anybody else do something similar, because if I did it might get me into trouble. And it would be unfortunate if it really pissed off the other candidates and provoked a bunch of negative publicity. Brown might be seen as an unlucky scapegoat, set up as an example of what could happen to a Democrat who abandons his/her principles. Don’t you think?
(Yes, I am still a ticked off little terrapin)
cajun @ 71
Try this
katymine @ 51
RevDeb @ 74
It gets funner when Woodward does his official interview on 60Minutes Sunday night and Larry King Monday night and the book goes on sale officially Tuesday … quite a few news cycles !
Squirm, White House Worms, squirm !
scarecrow @ 61
“It’s part of our Republican youth reacharound-…Er, reachout initiative”
;>)
That drink is also called a buttery nipple.
Frank Probst @ 60
Warning: Possible catfight in near future.
Frank – 707
Tortoise @ 80
go terrapin – slow but steady wins the race!
and i’ll be visualizing a nice flame-proof shell for you. :)
e.c. @ 70
If you belong to a party that gets away with election fraud, trashing the Magna Charta and the Geneva Conventions, ignoring the 4th Amendment then you must get the idea that you can get away with murder (or pedophilia, as the case may be).
cajun @ 71
katymine pointed one out already. It’s the TPM Muckraker’s Grand Old Docket.
Waxman’s up on CNN right now re Abramoff . . .
kirk murphy @
79
Bingo! Seen it all my life in the church. The loudest and most judgemental are almost always the ones with the nastiest skeletons.
Tortoise at 80 -
Um, you aren’t financially supporting any Dem candidate even if they had nothing to do with the vote yesterday – and you sent money to DeWine?
And that accomplishes exactly what?
Cujo359 @
88
Here’s a list, not comprehensive but long: http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/61307
Titanyum @ 87
considering the number of Iraqi children murdered in Bush’s war, the conclusion seems valid…
Pachacutec @ 84
A related, but different, drink is the duck fart (definition #2). It’s great if you don’t have to drive home for a while.
Republican Family Values?!
Torture, disappearing people, molesting kids, stealing elections, being bought off by Abramoff, and littering too! So much to do, so little time!
Their time is running out.
Zergle @ 90
Let’s see, how does that christian expression go?
“Let he who is without sin …”
This is exactly why a 50 State Strategy is so important — you never know when this stuff is going to happen, especially when you’re dealing with Republicans. It’s a vindication of Howard Dean’s work, and even Rahm Emmanuel should be happy (he managed to drive out our Blue America candidate, Dave Lutrin, in favor of apostate Republican Tim Mahoney back in March).
so very, very true. And, as Jane says, Howie Klein deserves a big pat on the back.
But I am disappointed that Jane and Christy continue to ignore Diane Benson, who Howie and Matt Stoller are both excited about. Diane is one FBI phone call or one Abramoff e-mail away from being Don Young’s replacement in Congress.
Don Young is the only candidate who ties Abramoff, DeLay, British Petroleum and Veco (the Alaskan oilfield support company being investigated by the FBI for corrupt practices) into one very untidy package.
She has the most compelling story of any US House candidate who has not yet been covered by firedoglake.
Here’s her web page, Jane, in case you’ve missed it before:
http://bensonforcongress.com/
Foley’s sole committee assignment is Ways and Means. He may have a security clearance in some fashion as a member of congress, but it’s not like he was sitting on the Intelligence Committee.
On the other hand, lots of unsavory people would love to have something with which to blackmail a member of the committee that writes the tax laws. You know, people like Jack Abramoff. . . .
Hey Rayne, as you’ve been going through all those emails, has Mark Foley’s name ever come up?
Cujo359 @ 94
Very close to one of my faves – The B-52
Tortoise @80, I for one will never vote for or lift a finger to help anyone who supported the Bush/McCain Detainee Interrogation Bill. But that would have to go for the Republican DeWine too.
Cujo359 @ 94
Thanks for the specificity. Definition #1 is a little jarring…
Tortoise @ 80
Wow. I’m so impressed. I thought I was the only one whose head was exploding over his vote. I was at his LA fundraiser with hisnewbestfriendAlFranken and when I saw he voted for the torture bill I called his office IMMEDIATELY. His Deputy Chief of Staff, Ellie, promised to call me back but had someone from his Ohio office call me back instead and at the end of the conversation she actually said to me, “Maybe he didn’t make the right decision.”
I was dumbfounded.
“MAYBE he didn’t make the right decision?”
Who ARE these people????
So my hat’s off to you, Tortoise! I just told them they would never EVER see another dime from me and they can cross California off their donor list.
We’re gonna nip this Lieberman-in-Training RIGHT NOW!!!
The IMs are trickling out. John has the first one up at http://www.americablog.com.
Pach: What the hell are the Mets gonna do without Pedro?
“Do I make you a little horny?”
Frank Probst @ 105
Yeah Baby, behave!
My recollection is that Foley played a lead role in the (unfortunate) outcome of the 2000 Presidential Election. Maybe this is a case of divine justice. Anyway, I’m glad another political hypocrite is exposed to the American people.
Worth 1000 words:
How about this gem of an image, cropped straight from the banner on his official house.gov web page.
Whoo, how long before the memory hole eats that one up?
Twisted Martini @ 106
I know. Can’t wait for “The Daily Show” to get ahold of it.
kristinejoy @ 101
Oh, my. The embarrassing part is, I didn’t take much real notice of definition #1. “Nope, not a drink. Next.” I must have read the first two or three words and realized it wasn’t related to what I was writing about.
OT but if you haven’t seen Raw Story’s headline:
Diebold Added Secret Patch to Georgia E-Voting Systems in 2002, Whistleblowers Say
By Matthew Cardinale, News Editor, Atlanta Progressive News (September 28, 2006)
(APN) ATLANTA – Top Diebold corporation officials ordered workers to install secret files to Georgia’s electronic voting machines shortly before the 2002 Elections, at least two whistleblowers are now asserting, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.
Former Diebold official Chris Hood told his story concerning the secret “patch” to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for Kennedy’s second article on electronic voting in this week’s Rolling Stone Magazine.
Hood’s claims corroborate a second whistleblower who spoke with Black Box Voting and Wired News in 2003.
Whistleblower Accounts
“With the primaries looming, [Chief of Diebold’s Election Division] Urosevich was personally distributing a ‘patch,’ a little piece of software designed to correct glitches in the computer program,” Rolling Stone Magazine reported.
“We were told that it was intended to fix the clock in the system, which it didn’t do,” Hood told Rolling Stone. “The curious thing is the very swift, covert way this was done.”
“It was an unauthorized patch, and they were trying to keep it secret from the state,” Hood told Rolling Stone.
“We were told not to talk to county personnel about it. I received instructions directly from Urosevich. It was very unusual that a president of the company would give an order like that and be involved at that level,” Hood told Rolling Stone.
[SNIP]
[Please do not reprint entire articles. Please do a portion of the article, snip, and then add a link to the remainder due to copyright considerations. Thanks. — CHS]
egregious @ 69
I remember you telling us that. It’s great. Yesterday emails went out from Wesley Clark and Warner in support of Lamont.
I’m fuming because there was an article in the Hartford Courant about all the underhanded Dems supporting Lieberman – including former Clinton administration people.
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2….._0928.html
We need to understand that we have really angered the DLC and other establishment forces within the Dem party (DCCC, DSCC)- and they are doing whatever they can to help Lieberman so they can put the netroots in their place. There are a number of posts on the Lamont blog crowing about the Q poll and cheering the demise of the netroots. (And by the way, if the Q poll concerns you, you should take a look at the way the questions were worded, i.e. Question # 6 – “How important is the ability of the candidates to reach across party lines to get things done in Washington” )
I know there are all sorts of elections going on across the country – and a lot of incredible candidates (I’m blown away by those spotlighted by ActBlue) – but the Lamont campaign now has the Republican party and the Dem establishment fighting as hard as it can to make sure Lieberliar stays in office. So, whatever support, moral or otherwise you can give to the campaign will be much appreciated. We helped start the fight and I hope we can help finish it.
Google is a wonderful thing . . .
May 3, 2006 – The O’Reilly Factor – Mark Foley and Bill O’Reilly talking about sex offenders:
Yeah, you’re with him, Bill. Just keep that loofah to yourself.
CMike @ 100
I was posting about this last night at Sadly, No!
ifthethunderdontgetya said,
September 29, 2006 at 4:37
Mo, I am shocked, (too shocked to even make a Bogey joke) to find that Sherrod Brown voted for the shrub torture act.
But am I going to vote for DeWine? Or curl up in a little ball and cry myself to sleep?
Hell No. But I am kinda pissed. And people have a right to be.
So I’m going to vote for Sherrod Brown November 7. But I’m not going to forget, either.
And I’d just add that alienating/splitting the Democratic voters was certainly part of Rove’s purpose in pushing this bill through. Myself, I am going to keep fighting Rove and the Goopers.
Can anyone tell me if there is a graph of how fast this went up. http://nedlamont.com/blog/1576/open-thread
I’ll bet it looks like the climate ‘hockey stick’. The 1st goal was 500 donors…then 1000…then $112K before midnight tonight.
GO NED!
To clarify from above, I wrote this statement [not MyDD, & not Warner]:
“I pushed his staff really hard on this last week at the Warner-Webb fundraiser, saying a large number of party activists and progressives viewed stronger support for Lamont as a “litmus test.” That phrase from you guys directly to the campaign people.”
Ed*ard Teller — I think the Blue America campaign has been going pretty well; there will always be some constituent, candidate, district that will claim they haven’t gotten ample coverage in this medium, simply because there’s more out there than this place can cover. Benson may yet get coverage – but will she need it as badly as a more contested, tighter race where the opposition isn’t as clearly corrupt as that running against Benson?
Peterr — nope, Foley doesn’t get mentioned in Batches 1 through 3. But I never really expected his name to come up anyhow, given the stuff Abramoff et al were working on with the White House.
Greenberg Taurig needs to be hosed out. I would love to see an investigation go through that entire organization. Abramoff and all the names that come from that firm with which he worked are arrogant f*cks that believed they OWNED the White House. I cannot believe the reaction to an ethics refresher which White House folks had to attend, in which they were told the Native American tribes did not need lobbyists but only to contact the government directly; Abramoff et al at Greenberg Taurig thought the White House was f*cking them (and yes, they say just that) and were going have the ethics coach fired.
Criminals. The lot of them.
K Street needs to be burnt to the ground if Greenberg Taurig is only representative.
Tortoise — for the sake of the rest of this country, I hope that Brown wins over DeWine.
Don’t worry – ABC News is already in production on “The Path to the Resignation of Mark Foley”, wherein Sandy Berger and Bill Clinton hack into Rep. Foley’s PC, spoof his IP, and use it to stalk and later sodomize a teenage boy.
Impeachment Happens @ 2:35 pm (#102)
Actually, quite a few of us are. Read the comments in the Good Times thread from yesterday. Brown’s never getting another dime from me. My personal views forbid me from giving money to DeWine, but I understand the impulse. Brown was the DSCC choice for that Senate race, and I’m starting to understand why. He triangulates and finds wiggle room with the best of them.
ifthethunderdontgetya said,
September 29, 2006 at 4:37
Mo, I am shocked, (too shocked to even make a Bogey joke) to find that Sherrod Brown and not one but BOTH NJ Senators Lautenberg and Menendez voted for the shrub torture act.
But am I going to vote for DeWine or Republican Tom Kean Jr. ? Or curl up in a little ball and cry myself to sleep?
Hell No. But I am really kinda pissed. And people have a right to be.
So I’m going to vote for Democrat Bob Menendez and you’ll vote for Sherrod Brown November 7. But neither of us are going to forget, either.
Current state of the CNN.com poll:
Do you believe President Bush has been frank with the nation about the situation in Iraq?
Yes 20% 15815 votes
No 80% 62843 votes
Total: 78658 votes
So, can these be turned into votes for Ds?
dab from CT @
112
Just gave another 20 to Ned. Fuck you Karl!
obsessed @ 2:51 pm (#118)
Which, of course, isn’t something you can do on TCP-based connections, but that won’t stop them, nor will it stop wingnuttia from praising it to the heavens.
Good news in that it looks like it’s a gift seat for the Blue column. It’s probably good it’s a Friday too. There are bigger fish to fry than Mark Foley and we have a lot of work to do. I hope this doesn’t continue to dominate the news and take the pressure off where it belongs, The White House.
Sh*t — they were TERRIFIED of Howard Dean.
Right there in the Abramoff emails.
Damn the conventional wisdom and the entrenched power players in the Democratic Party for their stupidity, blindness and simple craveness.
e.c. @
70
Prolly the same sort that think these electronic messages travel through toobs……..
Tortoise,
What did Lamont have to do with Sherrod Brown’s vote?
Rayne @ 125
Sounds juicy – a quote, please?
Rayne @ 2:58 pm (#125)
I always figured they were. The wingnut talking points during the early primary run in 2004 were always about how angry and crazy Howard Dean was. This always led me to suspect they were afraid of him.
Taylor Marsh is covering this also. She has an update with an excerpted e-mail.Hooo Boy.
http://www.taylormarsh.com/
Rayne @
117
One of the biggest frustrations for me as I observe Diane Benson’s campaign gain traction up here, particularly among military families, is the plain fact that Howard Dean’s people have all but ignored Diane. The campaign has so little $ compared to Young that it is ridiculous that she is closer to Young than anyone has been in sixteen years. We don’t know for sure though, because we don’t even have enough $ to hire a pollster. I got info from a Young volunteer that their secret poll has Diane off less than ten points!
I’m just a volunteer on the Benson campaign, btw, not a staffer. There’s only one of those. And he’s good.
As far as the triage goes, Rayne, that’s a valid point. But I see this from here as a 49-state strategy. Once again, Alaska seems to have been written off….
Hi ET!
Any new news on Ted Stevens and his son? (I know – too much to hope for on a Friday afternoon, but after the Foley mess broke wide open . . . )
Great quote from Foley’s lawyer a couple of weeks ago about the Mahoney defamation suit
“”There is zero evidence that Mark was associated with any type of improper conduct in Congress,” Foley attorney Coleman said. “He’s as honorable as they get.”"
Ha ha ha ha. Buh Bye.
Peterr — no quote; Neil Volz attaches a copy of an article from primary to an email without comment, but the article discusses Dean’s position on Medicare and about his 1995 stance that favored a Republican plan.
The man was too conservative for them — scared the snot out of them.
And with Dean the lobbyists would have been out of business.
Speaking of Dean, wasn’t it ABC’s directional mic that caught the Scream? Hmm.
I hope this story doesn’t take attention away from the White House.
While Foley’s demise is tasty and succulent, with several steaming courses to follow, I wouldn’t put it past the self-destructive Cons themselves to have thrown this pedophile to the wolves at this precise moment to take the heat off Bush and Congress for the flagrantly antiAmerican torture legislation that pardons Bush and his torturers for crimes already committed.
THAT’s the story to stay focused on.
Extreme rightwing ‘christians’ have a way of forgiving other Republican christians the most horrific sexual crimes without batting a well lacquered eyelash. And while Pepto Bismol sales will go up for a day or two among them, they’ll be back in shape and ready to torture again in no time at all.
bdu @ 108
Gone.
ET — I hear you. But as Howard Dean said, You have the power.
Have you made contact with the DFA folks in the district? Done any brainstorming about this with them?
To some of the leaders of my party, the Democratic party: Let’s get out of Iraq. Now. Didn’t we learn our lesson from the Vietnam War? Oil, oil, oil. Those are the ONLY reasons “we” went to Iraq.
Zergle @
90
Bingo! Seen it all my life in the church. The loudest and most judgemental are almost always the ones with the nastiest skeletons.
Let’s not forget that other all-time favorite, reaction formation, whereby “anxiety-producing or unacceptable emotions are replaced by their direct opposites.”
Here’s the example Wikipedia gives. Keep Foley’s work for the Child Exploitation committee in mind while reading it:
The Wikipedia page is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_formation
DrSinker @
8
Rush is not the one you should ask. Doesn’t he make sex vacation trips to the islands with his vi*gra? Maybe it’s kids he hits on there. How do we know?
Sorry I screwed up some of the blockquote code, but y’all get the idea regarding REACTION FORMATION, right? I think it goes hand-in-hand with projection, and for the same reasons.
Balrog @
136
I got it though. And just might use it for tonight’s Late Nite.
Here’s a little one of Mark with AG Ashcroft.
http://www.tomlatham.house.gov…..s/mfol.jpg
I’m still trying to get the one with the little ones titled “protecting our children” but it is disappearing….
TRex @ 141
Good show.
I’m still hoping for DarkBlack to use the Uncle Ernie slant, but I may be the only one.
dab #91,
I have contributed several hundreds of dollars to Lamont, Wulsin and others over the past few months. (And I have some of Howie’s CDs to prove it).
I had not understood before yesterday that Sherrod Brown was just another goddamn DINO. Actually I was surprised — although that was pretty stupid of me given the way Hackett (somebody with obvious integrity) was thrown overboard to clear the decks for Brown (somebody …out ……. …..ity)
Democrats won’t even hew to a party line, how can we encourage them to represent our interests when they are only focused on their own. How can we force them to accept an iota of accountability? As a party, they are utterrly useless.
Whats the solution? Here is mine:
1) Hit them individually
2) Hit them hard
3) Hit them where it hurts, i.e., their own self interest, invariably their #1 issue. Threaten their funding, support, volunteers. That sort of thing will actually get their attention.
Picking one specific target at a time and piling on would be the most effective approach. If its “not fair”, so much the better.
Frighten them. Its transparently obvious by now that they won’t even try to shape up unless they are scared witless first. Scared of us. You know, like the pugs are of Rove.
I really can’t think of anything else that might work.
That said, FDL’s abounds with kind and gentle souls. I can see how this not entirely couth approach might come over as a bit “vigorous” at first.
TRex @ 141
Wow, that WAS fast, given that I hadn’t really circulated it anywhere but here. Maybe an another forum found it… I’m hosting the cropped one on my website, so that’s still around for us, aside from whatever trex got as well.
Rayne –
Forgive me if you answered this in another thread, I don’t have the time to read previous ones, but — are these Abramoff scumbag emails available online? Or did you somehow get a stash of them through an offline connection?
That bit about Howard Dean is something I’d love to be able to read myself (so that I could then pass it on to others!). Thanks.
Oh, btw, there’s a Phoenix branch of Greenberg/Traurig, those pigs. During a local anti-war demo, our citizen troops marched right past their offices. Mr. K8 and I did our best informing everybody around us exactly who these folks are and their relationship to Abramoff. Most of the other demonstrators we spoke with that day had no idea about it.
More education of the public is needed! That’s a given, considering our pathetic corporate “free press” infrastructure. Solving that problem is such a biggee, but I’m proud of how everyone here is working on it!
Good God, they projected like mad about Democratic Congressmembers’ lack of ethics.
Cripes, the stuff I’m reading makes Dems look like Cub Scouts.
The Republicans absolutely see no difference, no separation between their political party, their government and their business — not even their personal lives. They have boundary issues of an incredible magnitude.
And it is exemplified by their spoiled frat-boy king, who cannot see that touching people without permission is wrong (i.e., Angela Merkel’s back rub), who cannot understand why his job is separate from that of Congress or the Judiciary (i.e., unilateral unitary executive), who cannot understand why people would have anything but the greatest respect for him (i.e., handpicked audiences chosen for loyalty).
September 29, 2006 House vote on:
S 3930 Military Commissions Act passed 230-170 with 12 Not Voting
Democrats voting for: 32
Andrews________Gordon
Barrow_________Herseth
Bean___________Higgins
Bishop (GA) ____Holden
Boren__________ Marshall
Boswell_________Matheson
Boyd __________ McIntyre
Brown (OH) _____Moore (KS)
Chandler________Peterson (MN)
Crame __________Pomeroy
Cuellar__________Ross
Davis (AL) _______Salazar
Davis (TN) _______Scott (GA)
Edwards_________Spratt
Etheridge________Tanner
Ford____________Taylor (MS)
Republicans voting against: 7
Bartlett (MD)
Gilchrest
Jones (NC)
LaTourette
Leach
Moran (KS)
Paul
Not Voting: 12
Burgess_______ Lewis (GA)
Case_______ Meehan
Castle_______ Ney
Evans_______ Strickland
Fattah_______ Thompson (MS)
Foley_______ Wilson (SC)
Foley is one of the none votes. Democrats supporting on the previous version were 34. I haven’t checked to see who switched.
TRex @ 141
Ha! Look what’s out there now. A ‘Vacancy Sign’!
Norman? Norman!
Maybe gay bashing Goopers should have to have penile plethysography before being allowed near male pages.
this one is kinda “cute”
http://www.sfsm.org/images/bla…..acemen.jpg
angie @ 3:24 pm (#142)
Don’t forget Google’s cache.
DrSinker @
8
A not so insignificant number are priests and preachers.
ALERT from the CA-04th. Charlie Brown crushes John Doolittle and his proxy, Doug Ose (R) in a video debate on local news. John Doolittle running scared from his Abramoff record and his support of the atrocities at the Marianas Islands.
Doolittle Tries to Fire Back – Video link in page.
This is the same topic they are discussing that I put together in my issue ad for Charlie Brown here:
John Doolittle Facts – Supporting Forced Abortion and Sex Slavery
Doolittle is coming apart at the seams. Let’s pounce on him and help rip apart the scab that is his Congressional Record.
Rayne @ 148
And who cannot imagine ever getting caught like this . . .
Mrs.K8 — you can find them in the Waxman House Reform repository. I can’t get back to the Dean bit again right away; since they’re PDF files, it’s hard to locate bits. Hope someone eventually converts them to text.
TPM Muckraker has been going through them, too.
I need to check in with ePluribus Media folks, see if they’ve gone through them already.
ET- gotta admit, I haven’t spent much time learning about Benson but based on your recommendation, one Washingtonian just broken his 2006 rule and donated to an our-of-state candidate who was not listed at Blue America.
I’m not smart enough to know how Howie Klein or the DNC determines who to support, but my simplistic brain tells me it’s better to have the only Alaskan in the House of Reps be a green liberal than another corrupt Rethuglican.
Mrs. K8 @ 147
Here’s the link: House Committee on Govt Reform
Special Guest at TPM:
Campaign Rhetoric Won’t Fix Iraq
By Rep. Jane Harman
I was surprised to read in today’s newspaper that the President used a campaign speech yesterday to attack this 5′3″ grandmother – because I said that he got it backwards: fighting them there may make it more likely that we’ll fight them here. The President believes that the jihadist fight can be contained in Iraq. But just tell that to the people of Jakarta, Madrid, London, Amman and Mumbai – all of whom have seen massive terrorist attacks in their cities since our invasion of Iraq.
The terrorist threat is growing more dangerous. But instead of addressing it, we are playing politics with the issue, passing laws that won’t make us safer.”…………..
http://tinyurl.com/e5r2v
Thanks, Rayne!
They’ll make for good late-night reading when I’m suffering torture-bill-induced insomnia.
Good to hear that you’re involved with ePluribus Media! I remember seeing them come together in real-time thanks to SusanG (is that right?) and the dKos Gannon/Guckert investigation.
Them’s good people with a terrific idea!
Thank you, Peterr! You sure make it easy for me, much appreciated.
Good gravy, Grover’s ATR (Americans for Tax Reform) “laundered” donations for at least one tribe. [Page 25, Batch 4]
When the hell is Norquist going to get his ass handed to him?
Balrog @ 144
Uncle Ernie Look-back this, Uncle Ernie look-back that
;>)
Breaking NBC Nightly News…
Whoa! The reason for the curfew in Baghdad was that intel suggested that the Iraqi military intended to stage a coup on Maliki
Here’s one that is not pretty…at all. check the title of the photo.
http://pages.prodigy.net/ralle…..kFoley.jpg
Cujo– sadly, I don’t know how to use google cache– there you have it, I am only lucky with the computer. LOL.
darkblack @ 164
Ha. Touche.
Tortoise @ 144
I think your plan has a really good chance. The way to change behaviour is to reward the desired and punish the undesired, no? Act Blue and Blue America, etc, give us the power to reward or punish candidates individually. Now, contributing directly will weaken the ability of the Dems to ‘hew to a party line’ by reducing the funds going to Central where they can be doled out by party leaders to good little Dems. But it will make candidates more accountable to, well, to us, who plebes who elect them with our $, our work and our votes. Ah, democracy! BIG caveat: This will work as long as the net is neutral… hmm.
I like sending in a few bucks to a candidate who has done something good — if lots of folks do that its a very tangible ‘attaboy’ for a statement we like, or a good vote. Like training a dog with treats…
Here’s a question that someone else may have answered earlier today, sorry for my ignorance:
How the hell did this Abramoff report end up getting released?!?
I mean, I thought this admin had the rubber-stamp criminal organization known as the GOP so thoroughly under their thumb, that the last thing that would happen would be a release of all these emails implicating so many of their crime bosses (esp Rove!) so close to November.
How did the GOP-controlled committee manage to get the huevos to release this stuff?
Off topic, but Lou Dobbs has a poll going about Bush’s secret behind the scenes efforts to create a North American Union, linky-dinky!
Yet another thing the Congress should be involved in, but isn’t.
Cozumel @ 165
Holy Mother of Pearl ! ! !
RBG @
158
Howie’s offered me a post at his site, and I’m working on it. Rayne, there is no DFA in “our district” (the whole state). And I can’t help but wonder if some of the resistance to Diane here and at Dean central is because she’s a former Green? Maybe not, but…?
I found one on GoogleImages – it was (but isn’t now) on his House page. Maybe a cached version might be out there, but this gets you a thumbnail:
google “mark foley” children
and click ‘images’ above the box
I’ve captured the thumbnail, at least.
angie @ 165
Google makes copies of anything that is freely available on line, including image files, HTML pages, and PDF (the latter are converted to HTML). When you do a google search, typically each entry will have a file marked “Cached”. That’s their copy of the file. Here’s an example from my search for the duck fart drink:
Urban Dictionary: Duck Fart
A layered (not mixed) drink made of Kahlua, Bailey’s Irish cream and Crown Royal (in that order, and ideally with just a float of Crown), the Duck Fart is …
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Duck Fart - 17k - Cached - Similar pages
See where it says “Cached”? Click on that if the original page has disappeared.
*ilson, Cozumel — easy, we don’t know how much of that coup business is psyops.
Think about it; THEY tell us there’s a potential coup in the works, THEY tell us they need to ramp up personnel in Iraq to prevent further insurrection. THEY tell us we are continuing with “active hostilities” because of this coup threat — and Geneva Conventions says that folks can be detained until end of “active hostilities”.
And THEY will tell us they need more money, too.
Twisted Martini @ 104
Lose to the Twins in 5 games.
ET– Getting rid of Don Young would be good for AK and the country! I am willing to help Diane Benson and will give what I can.
On the House vote today on Military Commissions the identical measure to what the Senate passed yesterday and so paving the way for its signing into law by President Bush, the Democrats who voted for the previous version but against this one were Melancon and Michaud. The other Democrats favoring torture and kangaroo courts (see #148 above) remained unchanged. The 7 Republicans who voted against both versions were the same.
What a day for the White House! Ya, they got their toruture bill but with the Woodward book, Foley, and the Abramoff/Rove items coming out, it must feel to them they are hemorrhaging from top to bottom. The talk shows on Sunday morning will be interesting. Oh ya, let’s not forget Senator Maccaca and his mouth, he can’t apologize without pissing someone off.
from: AP
So Hastert has known about this guy for ELEVEN MONTHS???
Sorry CHS for the long repaste. I just got so excited by it.
Cozumel @165 – how fab is this! The Iraqi army decided they have a better shot of taking down the gov’t than taking down the insurgents? Gotta love that.
Balrog @ 167
You’re a good sport…Here’s your prize.
;>)
Bob C @ 180
The question might be one of did Hastert report this to the police or not. I don’t know what the law is there but if that happened in Arizona and you didn’t report it you are in deep, deep do-do.
ET — I really doubt it’s the Green thing. There are folks in my state who are DFA members that are Libs, Greens and apostate Repugs.
It might come down to numbers, unfortunately. How many electoral votes in play? That’s why winning OH is so damned critical; believe they have 18 electoral votes, need a top-to-bottom Dem machine there if at all possible.
Here’s what I’m wondering: can you try to organize any progressives, Green-Dem-unaffiliated? Maybe you can even start a DFA there? Not hard to do.
I see a bunch of DFA Meetups, though, like this one in Anchorage — 176 members in the old Meetup site, and I haven’t checked the DFA-Link site yet. There’s got to be a way for you to make use of this resource.
Edward Teller –
Just as excellent as DFA is PDA, “Progressive Democrats of America” at pdamerica.org. We belong to our local AZ chapter.
Here’s info from their website on AK (they’re apparently just trying to get off the ground – a contact name of someone who wants help with organization is listed below) –
“State Caucus
The Alaska State Caucus needs your help in forming. For information, please contact our State Coordinator(s) listed below.
Chapters
Alaska currently has no chapters. For information on starting a chapter in your region, please contact our State Coordinator(s) listed below.
PDA State Coordinator
For support in organizing within your state, contact:
David Bantz
David.Bantz@usa.net
907-460-6321″
Hope this helps, sort of, anyway.
windje @
120
That’s not an option for me, what some Dems. have done in support of torture excludes them from my support, my vote will not be taken for granted and my principles will not be compromised. I will not support torture just a little today in hope that tomorrow will be different, period. Senators Lautenberg and Menendez sicken me and I will never accomplice them.
darkblack @ 182
Ack! Too disturbing!
Thanks…
AZ Matt @
183
There’s a young man running against Hastert. He was interviewed on Ed Shultz’s show just a few days ago. We should probably try and get this informatio re Hastert to him.
Mrs. K8 @
169
From the Executive Summary:
Translation: This stuff is going to come out anyway in all the trials, and we want it to come out now. Waxman’s motivation is obvious. Davis’ motive is to head off lots of rumors and innuendo from flying during the election that might be even more harmful.
So, nobody knows to what we owe the great benefit of having this Abramoff report come out now? I just think it’s strange that the WH was unable to squelch this before November.
Some GOP members of the committee were OK with this coming out?
Thx in advance to anyone who understands this and can explain. It’s weird, unless there are folks in the GOP willing to undermine their corrupt members, and that’s something I had written off as a possibility a while ago.
Jane’s got a new thread upstairs.
oh that cached! I was just googling images and did not find a cache option. You are so nice, thank you Cujo 359! sincerely.
I wonder if he has had the opportunity to meet Mr. Casseday…or perhaps he’s too old. http://www.editorandpublisher……1003187832
Peterr & Mrs. K8 – I think Peterr has it. The judge has been clamping down on how much longer Kidan and Abramoff are going to be able to avoid sentencing and he moved the dates back to Oct & Nov.
So do they want things coming out on election eve – or to get ahead of them and try to bury it by Nov. – that would be my take.
*ilson46201 @ 171
*ilson!! Good to see you!
Peterr –
I thank you again, and see I was too quick on the trigger with my second post on this.
Although I must say, Davis’ motivation is a little mushy to me — why shouldn’t he be satisfied with their being “rumors” running around, which Repubs could decry as “just” rumors, “politically motivated.”
Unless he knows that there’s *official* DoJ info coming out any moment?!?
ET — pls refresh my memory; are you closest to Fairbanks?
There’s 73 folks who’ve signed up and are waiting for a DFA to start. There are 14 who’ve signed up and are waiting for a Democratic Meetup to start.
Just checked the DFA-Link site and there’s a tiny DFA group in Fairbanks listed at that site.
And I’ll second Mrs.K8’s comment about PDA; many of our DFA folks here are also PDA members (two of us are members of PDA policy task force/working groups).
I think there’s a lot of energy waiting to be tapped. Email me if you want more guidance on how to organize.
more EPU – OldSchool – I notice that story doesn’t go into why it is that there is an opening.
The Schmitz scandals.
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12596
Mrs. K8 @ 190
See my #189, and also this. I think Davis is pissed at the White House for getting caught with their hands in the till and leaving him to hold back Waxman yet again. Keeping Henry in line (from the GOP point of view) has got to be a fulltime job, and if the White House is making that job harder, Davis is just going to get that much more angry about it. It’s a shot across the bow at Karl Rove, and while Davis didn’t aim the cannon, he also didn’t get in the way of the shot.
Thanks to you, too, Mary! OK, I see that makes a *little* sense, but I thought Abramoff wasn’t going off to his prison cell until November 15, *after* the election.
Does this mean that whatever the Abramoff canary sings about *before* his prison term starts will be released as public info *before November 7*?
Ach so ist das, Peterr!
Thanks muchly for your patience with my questioning! But it really DOES seem to go against the grain of their usual digging-in-their-heels and denying reality style of “governing.”
TMFH @ 202– perhaps you can tell your sweet daughter to wait until she is 21 and an intern before she decides to fall in lust with a gray haired man. If a man goes near her before then, like when she is a 16 year old page, she should scream and run away!
Do not feed the trolls. Hard as that might be.
Mrs. K8 – no, not really (unfortuntately) but the pressure is on now (although they have all managed to drag it past elections) and my guess is things were starting to dribble.
Mike Rogers at BlogActive deserves a REAL round of applause. He’s been tracking Foley Shenanigans for EONS, and bugging the “mainstream” press to pay attention. Naturally he’s been completely ignored.
Foley has an age-appropriate boyfriend you know, so outside of everything else he’s (big Oprah gasp) Unfaithful!
jinny @
188
Talking Points Memo has picked up on Hastert angle. This should be interesting.
The “young man” running against Hastert is John Laesch.
He’s a great guy. You can check him out by looking at his diaries on dKos, where he talks about his campaign and how many people in his district are absolutely disgusted by Hastert, and answers lots of questions about his positions on issues. John Laesch is a progressive candidate.
Here’s hoping John Laesch will incorporate this information into the long list of reasons why folks in his congressional district should dump Hastert *soonest.*
Balrog @
3
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
The role ol’ Moonie was born to play.
Apparently Foley, too.
You won’t shite as I FIDDLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLE ABITE!
HEE HEE HEE.
Family fuckin’ values. Apparently anal sex with young boys is family values to the repukes.
Millineryman @
32
Are you sure you didn’t mean sphincter? In honor of Rep. Foley, ya know. (just kiddin)
I wonder if Foley has ever seen goatse?
The markfoley.com website has the official Mark Foley resignation press release, but it seems like the page has a new header. The old (or another) header image is still stored on the server (as of now).
http://www.markfoley.com/img/mark_foley.jpg
It’s nice montage header you’d expect to see. Check it out. But, maybe the one image in the montage where Foley is surrounded by a dozen or so young boys, handing one little boy an American flag didn’t seem appropriate to his campaign staff considering the circumstances.
Balrog @ 43
OK. FIRST CRACK OUT OF THE BOX. BUSH IS NO COWBOY. THEY DONT HAVE THEM IN KENNEBUNKPORT, MAINE [HIS BIRTHPLACE]AND TEXAS BORNS ARE SO TIRED OF HIM USING THE LABEL, [ HIS THEIVING IS RENOWN WE KNOW ][ KARL HEART BEATS FASTER FOR BUSH, ROVE DECIDED TO COWBOY HIM UP AS A PIN THE TAIL ON REAGAN HOLLYWOOD FRAUD — SO THEY DID. MONEY HAS PROTECTED HIS SORRY GOAT SMELLING ASS ALL HIS LIFE AND THEY’RE SPENDING BUNDLES STILL DOIN’ IT. HE WOULDNT AMOUNT TO SPIT IN A TIN URINAL IN ANY TITTY BAR IN TEXAS OR ELSEWHERE. TO HAVE THE COWBOY HISTORY THIS POLLUTED IS AN OUTRAGE. GIVES US A CASE OF THE RED ASS. BUSH WILL NOT RETIRE IN CRAWFORD TEXAS. IF HE LEAVES PUBLIC OFFICE, HIS CARDBOARD RANCH HOUSE SETTING BY HOLLYWOOD SPECIAL EFFECTS WILL BE TO SHAMBLES EQUAL TO THE FACADE OF THE MANSION USED IN THE MOVIE, ‘GIANT’ FURTHER SOUTH — BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND. NO GOOD HAS COME OF BUSH AND ITS NOT LETTING GO. GENERATIONS MIGHT HAVE BOOKS TO READ ABOUT HIM, MOST OF US HAVE OUR FILL ALREADY. HES’ THE REPUBLICANS OWN NIGHTMARE AND HE’S THEIR OVERDRAFT. OTHERS WILL FOLLOW. WE ARE, CLASSICALLY, ‘BUSH BROKE’ AND SEEM NOT TO KNOW THAT EITHER. WELL, WE STARTED WITH BARTER — SO WE CAN AGAIN?
tortoise, impeachment happens
nice shot each. deadly accurate. right through your own foot, IMHO.
sad and angry here too – watching people cast aside their own principles under the guise of saving them.
maybe you guys should just organize private 3rd, 4th & 5th parties & set up your “perfect candidates” there. would that make you feel better, albeit briefly?
In that CNN vidcap Foley looks a little … um … psychotic. Must be the pressure of that pesky double life he was leading: upstanding “child protector” by day, drooling predator by night.