As for the rest of what you wrote, what an idiotic distortion of what the right is doing regarding the Foley case – people like me and others aren’t excusing Foley, saying it’s “ok” or “it was just sex” (or in this case sexual conversation) like the left did with Bubba – we are questioning the timing, who leaked the info etc.

Get your facts straight before you throw out such non-sensical accusations in the future. It just makes you look uninformed, and your delivery childish.

So you see, Clinton pardoned the bank fraud not the sex charge. Typical NeoCon immature bully attitude “He did it first!” Like somehow that makes it OK to be a sexual predator of teenagers. Gee, why look at the immoral behavior of your side when you can spend so much time diverting attention on something that happened nearly 10 years ago. Let’s your side off the hook I suppose but it still doesn’t make Foley’s, Delay’s, Abramoff’s, Cunningham’s, or all the others who are involved in the current GOP Culture of Corruption to be excused for their behavior. You demand moral and ethical purity for anyone else but when your side gets caught with their proverbial pants down you cry “Foul” and start spinning the excuses for their behavior. We can’t change what happened in the past but we can make right what is happening now. When you fight so hard to defend their behavior it makes your side look like you approve of child predation and other forms of corruption. Why can’t you just owe up to the fact that Foley and the rest of those who’ve been charged with corruption were creeps and don’t belong in your club. Doing otherwise just makes all of you look just as corrupt and ridiculous.

The media continues to swirl around Hastert and the pressure on him to resign. I think CNN has it right that even if he doesn’t resign that he’s most likely not going to be voted back as the leader of the GOP caucus after the midterm elections.

Foley is a sick puppy that needs to be dealt with, BUT in this case of the ends justifies the means, why aren’t the core issue of the abuse of the Pages being looked at from the tangent of supressing the information for years by people how have legal and moral obligations to report it immediately. I am talking about the reporters, news organizations, and the secret source. I can understand why the source is hiding. They face serious jail time for allowing this to go on until now.

I’m with you 100% Marshall. Choices are are made, not hatched from some lame reactionary status, but only if you choose to make that choice. Hence the root word…….CHOOSE!!!

However….

And this is in response to Redhand. Though I think you’re correct in the perceptions of each party, I think it needs to be mentioned that the right is made up of human beings who are subject to all of the same temptations as anyone else. The real difference between the parties (more precisely, between libs and cons) is that on the right, we still know bad behavior is wrong even if we succomb at times to its allure, and we don’t try to redefine it or justify it.

Frankly, that makes sense to me. I expect the likes of Clinton, Jesse “I am qual-E-fied” Jackson, Barney Frank et al to be corrupt in matters of sexual behavior. It’s one of the few things you can count on from them, in addition to hypocracy. With the Repubs one expects a marginally higher standard in this area.

I think the electorate is smart enough to recognize a political hustle when they see it (yes, I do question the timing). But I don’t expect the Foley affair to have a major impact on the election. If the voters shift control of Congress to the Dems, it’ll be because of the stalemate in Iraq.