Foley scandal has GOP fearing 'more disclosures'

:rofl: MKJ

(Provided they don't need electricity or functioning plumbing.)

...in addition to the Repukes in Congress protecting Foley while he molested the pages under their noses is that most likely Foley has medical insurance paid for by our tax dollars that is paying for his phony stay in some re-hab. Talk about disgusting! And...Foley probably took the place of someone who really would benefit from being where he is and who is not looking for a free pass on criminal charges for sexually exploiting a minor.

Isn't it bad enough that Foley was doing this asnd doing it with the knowledge of the US Repuke Congressional leadership ~~ but to have him most likely use benefits of his job like medical insurance to try and escape punishment? Sheesh ~~ talking about adding insult to injury! Didn't his dumb ass lawyer even think about the implications that this ploy would bring? I am a lawyer and I have done criminal defense and I have to tell you that IMO Foley's lawyer is one stupid asshole. All he managed to do was make his client look like a sick fuck and a WEAK sick fuck who takes no responsibility while pointing the finger of blame elsewhere.

Sheesh!

for sociopaths and his buddy mark foley can join him.

Is waterboarding a good rehab technique?

Isn't that the argument for increased surveillance of US citizens?

Somebody needs to read the Patriot Act to the GOPervs.

:wow: :popcorn: :party:

Not a sure thing but based on history, the odds are with us.

It's that magic number 36%. Check out any poll. The percentage approving of Bush or blaming Clinton on any issue is always right around 36%. I think that's our answer to how many Americans are authoritarian robots.

Those people really need to get out more and see the world: Iraq and Afghanistan for starters.

WWII, and what the Russians did to the corrupt aristocrats...

And I am being deadly serious (not "series")...

because if the rumors were about Democrats, the aforementioned conservatives would be screaming about it and naming names.

Quite possibly.

from now until election day.

There are certainly enough of em...
we could even have one a day
if the press could keep up.

I certainly hope it's disclosed before the elections rather than after.

Am I reading this right, it's specifically the GOP that's concerned about more disclosers?

I believe they said about other people in Congress too.

Presumably they are attempting to verify these claims.

I think everyone who molested a page and voted for the torture bill should have a dose of their own medicine.

We don't need no steenkeen evidence. We have torture and coerced confessions now.

Bring in the waterboards, we shall know the truth.

than catching them.

From this, they would rather have a ped in than lose a seat.

Re: Lawrence King and the Franklin Credit Union scandal.

Try reading former republican Nebraska senator John W. DeCamp's book "The Franklin Coverup". I say "try" since I was physically I'll from some of it and had to put it down. Very very disturbing if true. Violent pedophilia at the highest levels of government. Sick stuff. The documentary "Conspiracy of Silence" was massively repressed by the powers that be. It was supposed to air on The Discovery Channel in 1994 but was squashed by (as far as I know) unnamed senators. All copies of the final edit were destroyed. Only a rough edit still exists. You can watch it here;

http://www.franklincase.org/silence.htm

or find it on many P2P file sharing systems.

The book from amazon is here;

http://www.amazon.com/Franklin-Cover-Up-Satanism-Murder...

Also try reading "Why Johnny Can't Come Home" by Noreen N. Gosch... Same stuff different writer.

Family values indeed!

GOP = Grand Old Pedophiles

:freak:

I'm tired of him being my rep.

He doesn't represent me AT ALL!

:toast:

When I lived in AZ, I had the misfortune of living in his district. Scumbag extraordinare...

right thing to begin with and expose and toss out those in Congress who prey on young people.

geeeeez

Didn't you know these were mere foibles? At least compared to Clinton! :sarcasm:

At least he didn't get a blowjob from a 22 year old! :sarcasm:

*ahem* "joined" the President's "staff"...

Even if a dozen Republican congressmen are implicated, if just one Democrat is found it will "bipartisanize" the scandal and limit the damage that we can do to the Republicans.

I'm quite certain that Rove's people up on the Hill are looking hard for a Democrat whom they can implicate.

I refuse to "worry" about something that deserves to be found out and punished, if it happened.

Having said that,if "evidence" comes out against a Dem, I hope it is scrutinized thoroughly, because I certainly think the Repukes will try to "make" this a bipartisan scandal, if they have the chance.

on edit: Fixed appalling grammar.

The safety of the young people in the program is more important than covering for the crime. If a Democrat is found guilty of the crime, they should face the music just the same.

I agree though, any evidence suddenly raised about a Democrat should be scrutinized. The Republicans have been caught in the middle of a "perfect storm," so to speak, and they'll likely do anything to begin navigating their way out.

magically gets discounted after the election.

I don't think there are any involved in this, but you never know.

Dick DeVos is the Repub running for governor in Michigan - why are there ads HERE for him?

In order to make them go away you have to donate to DU. They don't have any control over what ads show up.

It's probably there because of the repeated use of "Republican" in this thread. The ads are context sensitive but they're not very smart about it.

Google selects and displays the ads based upon words relevant to the board/discussion content. It's automated.

The revenue generated by the ads goes to support DU's upkeep, so it's just something we have to deal with. Take the bad with the good and whatnot.

ill gotten gains

They put Pelosi in the middle between Foley and Hastert. Anyone just quickly perusing it might assume that she's somehow involved in the whole thing. But if you read the article she's briefly mentioned only once. It mentions her denial of Repubs accusations that Democrats leaked the instant messages.

Tell me this wasn't done like this on purpose! :grr:

What utter nonsense, and I don't think that it is accidental either. :mad:

how dare they do that. so making look like she's in the middle of the scandal... bastard (who did it)... goes RIGHT along with FOX NEWS showing Foley as a DEM for hours 2 nights ago, and the AP showing Hastert as a DEM in a story yesterday.


f'ng biased republican controlled media. and what's funny is these shills who keep posting on other sites keep saying, "you guys got all the other networks, can't we have one voice of reason in fox?" the other networks have so many republicans in charge or owning them it's sick, or better yet, men who are willing to do whatever their masters ask of them to keep the govt off their back for whatever reasons.

Oh, I think they know who they partied with.

The pages have been sending a whole lotta emails to the media now that they're listening. Wonder who else has been conversing?

...maybe not a pedophile, but he is a closet case who pays his boyfriend the highest salary on capitol hill to be his "chief of staff." These people should have been outed long ago. (I'm gay, I can say that!)

Google Euan Blair (Tony Blair's son) and David Dreier. I had read that Euan Blair LIVED in Dreier's house during Blair's had to get "internship", along with Dreier's boyfriend. Tony...how COULD you? I mean, with all those good Christian values, and all that. Let's look more closely at how the 21 year old was bumped ahead of the line to get the difficult internship he was given and the relationship of "outted" Congressman Dreier and young Blair. Maybe there's an International scandal here. Nothing would surprise me at this point.

So-called Socialist Prime Minister has political affair with right-wing Republican, and together they screw the world!

Euan has also got a very good scholarship at Yale. His academic record is good; but not as good as that of most students who get such scholarships, and I do suspect that the Tony/Bush relationship has been used to favour Euan on a number of issues. To me, that is the scandal here, rather than anything sexual. I doubt very much that Euan has literally been Dreier's "Monica Lewinsky", but even if he had, he's 21 so well over the age of consent (as was she!)

on the side. I know. One of his prospective "dates" is a friend of mine.

"People are very, very concerned," Rep. Ray LaHood, R-Ill.

If you have nothing to hide?


Isn't that the Bushco mantra?

to Fat Denny as anyone, so I am sure he has heard the scuttlebut. Of course his solution is to close down the page program.

How many pedophiles can there be in Congress? And what are the odds of them all being Republican?

<<"People are very, very concerned," Rep. Ray LaHood, R-Ill., said Tuesday night. "I think there are going to be more disclosures."

"We have heard rumors that other, similar activity has occurred involving additional congressmen and will be released prior to the November elections," said the Arlington Group, a coalition of 70 pro-family conservative groups.>>

you mean there's more they're hiding??? why am i not surprised about this? <time for more popcorn>

Since the GOP has hijacked the "pro-family" movement, perhaps all the revelations of late will jar the groups into questioning their automatic choice of Republicans.

Sad, very sad for the VICTUMS of REPUKE ABUSE.

I'm crossposting and asking for further research into it because Mr. Foley was Chairman of The House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children and sponsored HR 5749.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Board of Directors
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2280827

If he were an isolated incident they'd have tossed him last year. He must be one cog in a much larger den of corruption.

Just some inside info a friend in FL passed on to me. He said Foley was a known homosexual since taking office in 1994 but it was after the theft of 2000 that he got brazen about the page peccadillo's. There wasn't anything DeLay or Hastert could do about him because they relied heavily on Foley to steal FL.

So Foley just keeps becoming a bigger and bigger problem but only his gay friend and Chief of Staff now to Rep Reynolds (PUKE- NY) Kirk Fordham has the guts to go to Hasterts COS and tell him the shit is getting realty nasty. Fordham was fired yesterday BTW and is now working with the FBI.

Foley has lost all credibility here so what he says means pretty much nothing (about 2000) my friend thinks that is why the GOP finally outed him with the emails. They thought it would bang up Foley's cred and get him to quit but that would be the end of things. But it turns sour for the Gopers because the emails while creepy and icky were not sexually explicit and predatory like the IMs are. Plus the senior GOP creeps thought the pages would keep quiet because they were afraid of being outed themselves, most if not all, according to my source, of the pages seduced by Foley are gay.

But the IMs changed EVERYTHING. And the pages are talking regardless of whether they are outed or not. This is the absolute WORST nightmare for the GOP because now all their CREDIBILITY on EVERYTHING is shot to shit.

Now questions can be asked. The press is gonna go wild here. I think most of the WH press corp loathes this administration and has been quiet out of fear. Helen Thomas is an old lady she is the only one who said fuck it I'll ask whatever. Bush and crew are gonna get grilled. There will be at least one suicide. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

my toe in to conspiracy theory realms here, but where do people like jeff gannon or "clubs" like bohemian grove fit into this?

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Chairman know about all these crimes, when did he know it, who did he notify and what actions were taken?