Oct 05 2006
The Foley Blowback On Democrats Begins
Surprisingly, the first story I caught this morning on the possible implication of Democrat staffers and elected officials in hiding potential evidence of abuse by Foley (we are still waiting to know for certain the ages of all involved) came out of Hawaii – a blue state if there ever was one. It seems a certain Democrat Senator has had a history of sexual harrassment. Who knows if this tit-for-tat will work. The media is in a foam-at-the-mouth frenzy. But most Americans are more pragmatic and cautious – and I think they have learned their lessons when the media get all giddy and gleaful. Besides – Foley’s problems mean nothing to the defending the country on terrorism. The left is going to re-run their failure ot focus on the issues important to America.
As usual, Gateway Pundit has a great round up of the latest events and questions.
AJ–
I think it is hard to know what is going on here. Foley resigned, so he knows he did something that was very unethical, at the least.
Still, a Republican named Patrick McHenry (?) said on FOX that he asked some democrats like Nancy Pelosi to sign an afidavit that they had not known about this business earlier.
Pelosi refused.
If a Congressman thinks he has information about a sexual harrassment or about a crime, he must tell his employer or the police.
I think a lot depends on how old the young person was and if he was employed by the Congress when this happened.
You can’t really trust a blog with evidence. The police have to have the evidence.
The young man involved must be willing to come forward so we can know how old he was and where he was employed when this happened.
I think Foley is the underneath of pond scum, but we need to know more about who knew this information and why it is surfacing now.
I remember this story well because it broke back in the 90s at the same time as the Bob Packwood scandal. Packwood was forced to resign from the Senate. Inouye wasn’t.