Replacing Tom In The Foley Hall Of Shame
This and this do not bode well. This, though, will probably mitigate it sufficiently not to matter.
Astrotrain was right - sometimes it is best to be known for one's enemies.
UPDATE: Brother Hinderaker doesn't seem to think Foleygate is any big deal. He also does the favor of contrasting Mark Foley's resignation with the failure of his Dem antecedents in the "have fun with pages" club (Gerry Studds, Barney "My Boy Lollipop" Frank) to take that honorable step after their execrable shenanigans were uncovered.
Taken in the context of the slimy insurgency against George Allen, it speaks to the desperation of the minority party to have a genuine opposition scandal fall in their lap like overripe fruit and be the most ill-suited mammals on the face of the planet to exploit it. Maybe if they (1) had chosen to run on actual issues and (2) weren't so far to the Left that they could have dared to do so and (3) hadn't spent the '90s covering Bill Clinton's sorry ass and (4) hadn't spent this decade fabricating one smear of George W. Bush after another, a GOP congressman electronically flirting with a page or bunch might have been a bombshell.
As it is, it'll just blend in with the cacaphonous background static.
UPDATE II: RCP tentatively concurs.
UPDATE III: Mark Levin considers the timing of the Foley revelations more than a little convenient for the Donks.
Astrotrain was right - sometimes it is best to be known for one's enemies.
UPDATE: Brother Hinderaker doesn't seem to think Foleygate is any big deal. He also does the favor of contrasting Mark Foley's resignation with the failure of his Dem antecedents in the "have fun with pages" club (Gerry Studds, Barney "My Boy Lollipop" Frank) to take that honorable step after their execrable shenanigans were uncovered.
Taken in the context of the slimy insurgency against George Allen, it speaks to the desperation of the minority party to have a genuine opposition scandal fall in their lap like overripe fruit and be the most ill-suited mammals on the face of the planet to exploit it. Maybe if they (1) had chosen to run on actual issues and (2) weren't so far to the Left that they could have dared to do so and (3) hadn't spent the '90s covering Bill Clinton's sorry ass and (4) hadn't spent this decade fabricating one smear of George W. Bush after another, a GOP congressman electronically flirting with a page or bunch might have been a bombshell.
As it is, it'll just blend in with the cacaphonous background static.
UPDATE II: RCP tentatively concurs.
UPDATE III: Mark Levin considers the timing of the Foley revelations more than a little convenient for the Donks.
posted by JASmius at 12:21 AM
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