GOP Leaders Have More in Common With Certain Catholic Bishops Than a Commitment to the Pro-Life Cause ...
... they also seem to have issues when it comes to covering up for child predators. From The Washington Post:
GOP Leaders Knew Of Foley's MessagesMy Comments:
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) was notified early this year of inappropriate e-mails from former representative Mark Foley (R-Fla.) to a 16-year-old page, a top GOP House member said yesterday -- contradicting the speaker's assertions that he learned of concerns about Foley only last week.
Hastert did not dispute the claims of Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds (R-N.Y.), and his office confirmed that some of Hastert's top aides knew last year that Foley had been ordered to cease contact with the boy and to treat all pages respectfully.
Reynolds, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, became the second senior House Republican to say that Hastert has known of Foley's contacts for months, prompting Democratic attacks about the GOP leadership's inaction. Foley abruptly resigned his seat Friday.
House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) told The Washington Post on Friday that he had learned in late spring of inappropriate e-mails Foley sent to the page, a boy from Louisiana, and that he promptly told Hastert, who appeared to know already of the concerns. Hours later, Boehner contacted The Post to say he could not be sure he had spoken with Hastert.
Yesterday's developments revealed a rift at the highest echelons of House Republican ranks a month before the Nov. 7 elections, and they threatened to expand the scandal to a full-blown party dilemma.
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Other than "The Democrats are worse.", it's hard for me to formulate a justification for why the Republicans should not go down to ignominious defeat this November.
Previous Pro Ecclesia posts on this subject:
The Fox Guarding the Henhouse
posted by Pro Ecclesia 11:00 PM
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Hey, to the congressman's credit, he didn't stoop to using the "I am a gay American" defense.
Other than "The Democrats are worse.", it's hard for me to formulate a justification for why the Republicans should not go down to ignominious defeat this November.
Actually, like Ramesh Ponnuru I think it's better for the GOP in the long term if we lose the House. It will provide an impetus for reform and it will make 2008 more winnable, since the GOP won't be in total control of the government (and therefore subject to all the blame). I just wish it were more likely that we'd lose the House and keep a decent majority in the Senate (in case an unlikely vacancy opens up on SCOTUS).
The president of the page alumni association claims that he was warned about Foley when he was a page five years ago and that members of his class received the same sort of messages as the current case.
Correction regarding "members of his class received the same sort of messages as the current case": the linked post actually says:
"Some of the sexually explicit instant messages that led to Foley's abrupt resignation Friday were sent to pages in Loraditch's class."
Words fail.
Yes, perhaps losing the House would smack some sense into the GOP.
Better if it were common decency, but that's probably asking too much.
I am hoping for a GOP win in the senate simply because I think a SC spot could open in the next 2 years. One of those judges is pushing 90!
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