And they still don’t know who paid for 9-11, do they?

They don’t know Al Qaeda paid for 9-11.

Syria and Iran are causing trouble in Iraq; their political class are a lot worse than ours.

Al Qaeda is killing mostly Muslim people.

Who do you like Kenny? Stalin? Mao?

Maybe I am wrong, it would not be the first time, but I heard that the IMs were with a young man of college age. That is not a crime. It is icky, but it is not a crime.

And it is the hiding of those IMs that will sink the Dems’ efforts to profit off this.

It’s always about the coverup, or the incomplete investigations, isn’t it….

Time and time again the democrats repeat the same MO – Breathlessly Break The Story, obtain the knee jerk reactions, use those reactions as fact, and force a hand based on facts not in evidence.

The fact that the right just falls into that trap, time and again – by demanding Hasterts resignation, by vilifying Mark Foley and Brian Ross for that matter, just lumps them into the same shit bucket.

I hope Hastert has balls bigger than raisinettes and says hell no I am not stepping down until a full investigation has been made. I think Foley should have waited and made no comment, and stepped down after the intial wave of Dem said/Rep said vitriol died down, instead he gave the Dems another golden egg to play with.

In the case of IM messages, there is no way in hell to prove the age of the recipient or the sender. There is no way to prove that Foley sent them, or did someone else in his office do it (perhaps Glenn Greenwald can elighten us on that note). Why does everyone repeatedly call these recipients “children”? Teenagers are not children. Teenagers of lawful age are not children. Foley has not been accused of touching a child or a teenager. These are some troubling things that need to be determined before a person and/or persons lives are utterly destroyed.

The saddest thing is that the Dems are not doing this to gain votes – anyone with a brain can discern that a man and his sexual proclivities does not change their political leanings, it changes how they feel about that person, they may not vote for that person, but they will not jump parties because of it either.

It’s just another case for angry, mindless, heartless humans with no soul left to guide them to destroy a man.

The IM messages from 2003 which Hastert and otherse never saw were clearly sexual in nature and to minors. Foley is most likely a child predator. What bothers me is a news media or partisan hack hiding these apparent crimes for years – leaving other kids exposed to risks.

Right, this is just a case of the GOP getting caught. Move along, folks; no leftwing shenanigans to see here.

As far as I’m concerned, Foley resigned. This issue should be closed. The only reason it’s still open is because now the Dems want to use the issue to smear other Republicans with. The “n*gger” and “doe’s-head-in-a-mailbox” stories didn’t work to derail George Allen, so now the smear-monkeys are trying the “Republicans are pederast enablers” angle. I guess Clarice is right when she suggests that watching politics on TV for the next month or so is going to be like getting one faceful of raw sewage after another.

THIS IS A CALL TO ARMS!!

BROKEN GLASS OVER NUCLEAR WASTE!

The dems are as slimy as they come and we don’t need anymore carville/begalla/lehane/clinton/shrum EVER, EVER AGAIN! NEVER!

I think Foley might well have been set up, but I have to say that I am getting really fed up with people going on about crimes to children as if the man had already been tried and found guilty.

You are acting as if Foley was sodomizing preschoolers. So far as I know there is no indication that he even touched anyone. And the IMs were communications with a college kid.

Now I think what Foley did was creepy, but when people go on about crimes against children when so far as we know there were no crimes it sounds just plain hysterical.

So far it seems that Foley was inappropriate and out of bounds and that is bad enough. His behavior was also unethical and irresponsible but this stuff about crimes against childred is not only not true, it is insulting to the pages themselves who are not babies. They are old enough and mature enough to be pages and if they felt that Foley was out of line they should have said something to someone.

If that email asking for a pic is all there is that hardly is a crime. And if that IM was really with someone over 18 then that is not a crime either.

Do not make it worse than it already is. That is why these people did not come forward, because according the FBI there is no crime. And if that is so all that is left is scandal and bad behavior.

h/t to a commenter that noticed that all the comments from Stop Sex Predators have disappeared.
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