REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS COVER UP
COLLEAGUE'S HOT GAY LUST FOR UNDERAGE BOYS

From the New York Times courtesy of AlterNet:

G.O.P. Aides Knew in Late ’05 of E-Mail

Top House Republicans knew for months about e-mail traffic between Representative Mark Foley and a former teenage page, but kept the matter secret and allowed Mr. Foley to remain head of a Congressional caucus on children’s issues, Republican lawmakers said Saturday.

The exchanges began with what Republicans now describe as an “overfriendly” e-mail message from Mr. Foley to the unidentified teenager.

But news reports about the exchanges led to the disclosure of e-mail correspondence with other former pages in which the discussions became more and more sexually explicit. Shortly after he was confronted by ABC News on Friday about the subject, Mr. Foley, who represented a south Florida district, resigned from the House.

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Among those who became aware earlier this year of the fall 2005 communications between Mr. Foley and the 16-year-old page, who worked for Representative Rodney Alexander, Republican of Louisiana, were Representative John A. Boehner, the majority leader, and Representative Thomas M. Reynolds of New York, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. Mr. Reynolds said in a statement Saturday that he had also personally raised the issue with Speaker J. Dennis Hastert.

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I don't really know what the legal ramifications are for this, or even if it amounts to anything worse than a simple case of sexual harassment, but I do know that I'm really starting to wonder if elected Republicans honestly believe what they say they believe. Of course, I know that there are millions of American citizens who identify themselves as Republican and steadfastly support what we traditionally understand as conservative principles: small government, low taxes, less spending, Christian sexuality, that sort of thing. But the last five years of GOP rule have brought us much bigger government, higher taxes for average Americans relative to taxes for corporations and the wealthy, and much more federal spending. Add to that all the lobbying and pay-for-vote scandals that have been rocking Washington for months now. Mix in tales of fundamentalist Christian Tom DeLay's drunken hot tub parties, and GOP porn star Mary Carey's stories about how many Republicans have hit on her at Republican events. And now this business about covering up Foley's underage gay internet sex shenanigans.

It's hard enough being subjected for years to all this right-wing bullshit spewing out of D.C., but the possibility that they don't even believe their own rhetoric may be just too much for me to bear. These guys are the biggest liars in history.

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