Some right-wingers are denouncing it as an left-wing smear campaign.

What if

1) Rove wants a loud sex scandle to dominate the media to push down coverage of all the other Republican problems.

2) There is serious Repubican infighting over leadership positions, and some faction decided to take out a lot of the contenders

well I’m disgusted anew -

yesterday I contacted The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children – strongly but politely urging them to use their star power to smack down Drudge and others for their reprehensible comments on the victims -

well, I just saw this -

a tepid, watered down statement -

http://www.missingkids.com/mis…..ageId=2820

well it’s four days later and it is obivous to all that House Leadership failed to protect children -

sure would be nice if they heard from more than me on this -

http://www.missingkids.com/mis…..ageId=1285

these folks for the most part, do good work – recall their assistance in reuniting families Post Katrina – so please be polite but urge them to publicly comment on this hideous failure

I read the letter in your first link, prepared to write a note and will do so shortly. Here we go again with this letter sidestepping the real issue and blaming the internet not the behavior or the cover up. I will say again this internet pornographic finger pointing will be used against net neutrality. Do these people support incumbants at any cost as we witnessed NARAL love ‘em even if he’s Lieberman?

Madsen (take the appropriate number of grains of salt) is saying that ABC got the e-mails from…wait for it…Justice Department lawyers who were pissed off that they weren’t being allowed to investigate this. Oh please oh please oh please.

DOJ lawyers? Leaked this? Glenn Greenwald’s assesment of the hassert letter is looking much more prescient.

If Hassert knew that DOJ had this, ans suspected that DOJ is the source for it…….

Wow. That would make his letter downright threatening.

It’s therefore hardly surprising that the wing-nuts are now calling for his head. Hastert served his purpose and can now be offered up as a convenient scapegoat for “Foley-gate”. The reality is that if Hastert gets the boot, it do little to change the corrupt Republican power structure in Washington.

Washington, D.C.: Re: the Fairfax, Va. post�

You know I�ve been saying that it’s a terribly sad commentary on our country that this sex scandal/possible crime is what it takes to rattle people. I suspect it will affect the GOP races this November, but this is not what it should take. It should take the American people saying, if you vote with Bush on everything, especially the war (since a huge majority of us oppose it), then I am NOT voting for you.

It’s not the media people, it is the people…

Eugene Robinson: I see where you’re coming from, but I have a slightly different take. The Foley scandal is not just a sideshow. I think it’s a vivid illustration of how corrupt the Republican leadership in Congress has become, in the original sense of the word — deteriorated, spoiled, debased. For whatever reason, either because of political calculation or an inability to function, no one bothered to investigate that first e-mail, which certainly should have sounded alarm bells. That’s an important thing for people to learn about this Congress, it really is.

Senators generally keep their comments to themselves about the procedures in the House, and vice versa. The fact that they are commenting about the problems in the House is telling. Harry Reid has spoken out, and now watch for the Republicans . . .

Dubya better send out a fleet of buses, because I get the feeling there will be more than a few folks to throw under the wheels.

IIRC, there are a whole bunch
of them sitting in New Orleans he didn’t use last year.