Lorenzo from AZ

TURNING OVER A NEW PAGE - The Foley Approach

I’m sure that you’ve been following all the news out of Washington about Mark Foley and his penchant for pages. Or in the Republican vernacular “No Child’s Behind Left Behind”

This Foley-gayte, if you will, has the Republican House leadership’s boxer/briefs in a wad. So far it doesn’t rise to the level of Clinton’s fellatio flagrante delicto, though no kids were harmed in the making of THAT scandal.

Foley’s explanation for his creepy behavior as mentoring is so lame. He should have called it boi-toring and not mentoring and maybe the crack leadership team would have caught on. What is even creepier is that Foley was in charge of the organization that is supposed to help kids. It raises all kinds of questions of who he had access to. It’s like giving a gambling addict the job of counting the collection plate.

These conservatives are so caught up in their Defense of Marriage efforts that I would just like to suggest that they focus on protecting kids from real threats—Republican sexual hypocrites.

I struggle with the Administration’s faith based approach to everything, but at some point, another adult in charge should have confronted Foley and told him “I don’t believe this bullshit.” My expectation is that we’re going to have several trailing stories over the next month from former pages, tricks, and hustlers.