Squiggler is right I think; the only personal meeting with a former page we know of was with a 21-year-old, and he claims Foley made it clear to him that he (Foley) didn’t fool around with any underage persons.

The only IMs we’ve seen were the ones Edmund baited Foley into, so we don’t really know whether the ABC-touted parade of anonymous former pages claiming to have gotten dirty IMs from Foley has any merit or is woven from whole cloth.

The only thing we know for sure is that Foley sent too-chatty but innocuous e-mail to former pages. Why he sent them is really speculation, but probably to test their responsiveness or reciprocal interest (one thing he said to the 21-year-old was “I knew you were a player,” which suggests a sort of testing the waters).

The seeming overreaction to innocent-sounding e-mails of the Louisiana and Arizona former pages, both teens, is easily explained by the, at that age, insecurity about being pegged as not-quite-macho if they were aware, and they probably were aware, of rumors about Foley’s homosexuality, and the fact that they were showing the e-mails to their parents.

We just might be hanging this guy for his fantasies, and that could put all of us in the shadow of the gallows.

What bothers me is the idea of a clintonite (Rahm Emanuel) being in congress and still putting forth the scortched earth policies of Clinton in congress. Are we never going to get rid of this man?

I made some new posts regarding Harry Reid and “The Clark County Conservation of Public Land and Natural Resources Act of 2002.”

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A new article yesterday on the Foley incident suggests either that the incident in which Foley supposedly was drunk and trying to get into the Pages dormitory was made up or covered up:
U.S. Capitol Police said yesterday that they have no record of an …

I think you have done yeoman’s work on the Foley case, but I also think you are way way too hung up on the predator bit. Is there any evidence that Foley ever met with anyone underage for the purpose of sex? I don’t think so. Was he a normal male and interested in young hard bodies, yes, just like millions of guys who slobbered over 17 year old Britney Spears. This scandal is nothing more than a lonely drunk being careless and living vicariously through his computer. It is about a man who was made a joke of by a bunch of immature young men (not children).

I worked for a Member of Congress for several years and I could name a dozen different Members or Staffers who were very creepy and they are all heterosexual pigs, masters of the double entendre designed to make a woman uncomfortable, roving hands, insulting sexist remarks. I know staffers who had no problem using their boss’s position and power to lord it over those in subordinate positions, I know staffers who slept their way through every female campaign worker that would give them the time a day. I know one Congressional candidate (he didn’t win) who devastated the lives of a half dozen (maybe more) young women when he spread Herpes around like giving out Halloween to trick or treaters. And I certainly have known drunks. There were some who had to practically be carried into the Chamber for a vote, some in very high leadership positions. This pseudo-rage over a few pathetic IMs is so stupid, when you have real criminals like Jack Murtha, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Harry Reid, and Ted Kennedy out there.

Foley did the right and honorable thing and resigned. He had to because being a drunk, he can’t defend himself and point out that Trandahl and Fordham and Rodgers and Aravosis are lowlifes with a far different agenda than painted by the media because he doesn’t remember. He said as much to Fordham.