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A report in TNR says that the republicans are so desperate to hold on to a majority in the House that “the White House and Rove gang” intervened to pressure Foley to run for re-election and stay one more term.

Foley had decided in early 2006 to retire from Congress and become a K Street lobbyist.

But as things started to get ugly for the republicans and their majority status became threatened

“Rove and the GOP congressional leadership eager for every safe incumbent in the House to run for re-election, looked the other way as evidence accumulated that Mark Foley had a thing for pages. Holding onto his seat became more important than confronting him over his extracurricular activities.”

Karl Rove

Later in the year, Foley changed his mind and decided to run for re-election. When asked by a friend, What happened? Foley answered “he was being pressured by ‘the White House and Rove gang,’ who insisted that Foley run. If he didn’t, Foley was told, it might impact his lobbying career”.

Foley said

“The White House made it very clear I have to run”

According to Foley’s friend the White House told Foley that if he served for two more years it would “enhance his success” as a lobbyist.

Foley wanted out of Congress but he said that the GOP congressional leadership and the White House were scared of losing the House and the thought of two years of Congressional hearings, so he had two more years of duty.

Once again, another piece of evidence of the coverup of a sexual predator by the Gang Of Perverts only that this time the coverup reaches all the way up to the “the White House and Rove gang”.

“This freaked me out.”
“Sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick sick.”

This is what a 16-year-old page wrote after receiving a creepy e-mail asking for a “pic of you” from Mark Foley, a 52-year-old republican ex-congressman from Florida.

This incident happened more than a year ago.

As Time describes it

“Certainly the page understood what the e-mail meant, which is why he forwarded it in August 2005 to the office of Louisiana Congressman Rodney Alexander, who had sponsored him for the page program.”

Republicans Dennis Hastert, majority leader John Boehner and campaign chairman Tom Reynolds admit they heard last fall about the “overfriendly” email. However they did nothing to stop Foley and instead decided to cover it up.

I believe most reasonable people would agree with the 16-year-old in that this was not just an “overfriendly” email. It was “Sick“.

And I also think that most Americans will agree with Cokie Roberts of ABC when she says

“America’s mothers are furious.”
“The silliest response from old men…”
“…have we learned nothing from the catholic Church?”

She continues by saying regarding Hastert and the republicans

“…counting on voters hating the media and Democrats more than sexual predators is a losing hand.”

Yes indeed.

The Foley events as only Jon Stewart can tell them.

Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on the announcement by the Ethics Committee that it is forming an investigative subcommittee to investigate theFoley matter:

“I am pleased the Ethics Committee honored my resolution byforming an investigative subcommittee to investigate the cover-up of MarkFoley’s outrageous behavior.

“I expect that the Republican Members, officers of the House, andstaff will be questioned under oath so that this scandal will be resolvedfairly and quickly. I look forward to the preliminary request next week.

“The young people, their parents, and the public deserve answers. Those who covered up Mark Foley’s behavior must be held accountable.”

I still think that republicans will do anything under their power to stall this committee.

Pelosi should be calling for an independent counsel.

Tom Davis was the Chairman of the NRCC directly preceding Tom Reynolds, in fact Reynolds was his hand picked successor. While Davis was Chairman, the NRCC received $210,000 from Foley.

Today, Tom Davis is Chairman of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee which has jurisdiction over ALL federal programs, including the House Page program.

Davis’ Democratic opponent for the US House (VA-11), Andrew Hurst, indicated on Monday that there is reason to believe that Representative Davis may have known about Mark Foley’s problem before the public scandal. Yet he has so far refused to investigate how this could have happened.

The Associated Press recently reported…
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