California Conservative

Republican Congressman Mark Foley of Florida, a member of the Republican leadership serving as a deputy whip and a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, abruptly resigned from Congress as details about his e-mail and Instant Message exchanges with a teenaged boy became public. The boy was a 16 year old congressional page at the time. Pages are high school students who attend classes under congressional supervision and work as messengers.

The 16 year old wasn’t the only boy with whom Foley corresponded. The sexually explicit instant messages, according to ABC, said Rep. Foley wrote to one page:

“Do I make you a little horny?”

In another message, Foley wrote, “You in your boxers, too? … Well, strip down and get naked.”

Enough said. Really.

Disgustingly enough, Foley, chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus, introduced legislation in July to protect children from exploitation by adults over the Internet. He also sponsored other legislation designed to protect minors from abuse and neglect. Foley reportedly said, “We track library books better than we do sexual predators.” He also once accused the Supreme Court of “siding with pedophiles over children.”

Good riddance, Congressman, and don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Aside from the obvious conflict of interest as the Chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus, America deserves representatives who are better than this. While his conduct may not be illegal, it is certainly immoral and predatorial. If Democrats win this seat as a result, so be it.

However, there’ll be no listening to lectures on morality by the likes of Nancy Pelosi or any other Democrat here until Democrats condemn…

President Bill Clinton’s sexual harassment of Paula Jones while Governor of Arkansas, and Kathleen Willey and Jaunita Broaddrick while President of the United States; his affair while President with intern Monica Lewinsky, who was only a couple years older than his own daughter and his affair with Gennifer Flowers while governor. Not to mention his multiple other affairs and scandals.

Dem. Congressman Barney Frank, who allowed prostitute and pimp Stephen L. Gobie to operate a prostitution service out of Frank’s Capitol Hill apartment and also admitted he paid Gobie for sex with personal funds as an aide and wrote letters on congressional stationery on his behalf to Virginia probation officials.

Then there’s New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey’s sexual promiscuity with multiple men and placing one lover in a position of homeland security despite his lack of qualifications, philandering Sen. Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson and his teenaged lover and baby, California Congressman Gary Condit and his affair with an intern who was murdered, Louisiana Congressman Rep. William J. Jefferson, who had an escort canoe him to his home in New Orleans to retrieve $90,000 of bribe money in cash from his freezer, etc., etc., etc….

Moral equivalency? You bet, so let’s not be hypocrites.

Foley is a disgrace. Good riddance.

Cross-posted at Amy’s Blog; Bottom Line Up Front

This entry was posted on Sunday, October 1st, 2006 at 2:57 pm and is filed under Author: Amy Proctor, Corruption, Culture, DNC, RNC. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.