This is what brings down the thin facade of Republican moral superiority? Emails and IMs? Hypocrisy, cover-ups and sexual misconduct are hardly unprecedented in politics. This should not be taken as me not taking the whole thing seriously, quite the opposite. I mean <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Foley">Mark Foley</a> is freaking co-chair of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children and he's sending these <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Foley_Scandal">uber-creepy</a> IMs to 16 year olds?<br><br>I haven't thought of the Republican party as the moral choice for a while. Morality to them is another thing that they treat like a "Mission Accomplished" banner; they say it, they expect it to be good enough of us, facts be damned.<br>"Culture of Life" Terri Schivo's dilemma caused President Bush cut his vacation short, but an obliteration of a major american city didn't seem important enough to change his travel plan actually going in the opposite direction after Katrina ravaged New Orleans.<br><br>George Bush has shown more emotions towards frozen fetuses to be used for stem cell research (fetuses that would have most likely be destroyed anyway) than the innocent Iraqi citizens that have been killed in our invasion, both in the cross fire and the resulting tribal violence. <br><br>"War on Terror" After 9/11, we were suppose to go after the people responsible and the countries harboring the culprits. Instead we invaded a country that had neither, lest we forget, that was the one of the justifications of invading Iraq. Our own intelligence has said recently that we have help make Iraq what we originally said it was, a haven for terrorist activity. The Taliban that harbored the men who executed the attack are regaining power in Afghanistan.<br><br>"No Child Left Behind" Ask a public school teacher if the education system has improved on Bush's watch.<br><br>"War on Drugs" The emphasis is still on Pot being the number one drug problem when Crystal Meth has been decimating entire communities and straining already slim social service budgets.<br><br>Add to those a series of tax code changes that seem to overwhelmingly favor the wealthy. It's like "Trickle Down" economics, without the "trickle down" pretense.<br>It's Class warfare dressed in Culture war clothing. What Foley did is inexcusable, but yet some conservatives people are still trying to excuse it. It seems like they're trying to do the classic, "Do as we say, not as we do" defense. It didn't work when you were a teenager why should it work now? <br>Video Fun: Mark Foley and John Walsh, before the fall. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ5Yncoxybw">Warning:Ironic Content!</a> check out the end.<br><br> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XukNaP7H87o">Ann Coulter on Foley</a> totally missing the point that the problem is not that he's gay, it's that he's a pedophile and those are two different things.
faye:
Thank you so so much for the comment you let on my rejected set. You're the best!