Republican Party Joins With NAMBLA

Well, as Michael Bouldin has been covering, the latest nasty Republican scandal is Rep. Mark Foley who engaged in a sexual email exchange with an underage teen on his staff...on taxpayer money. The Republican leadership, right up to Hastert, Reynolds and DeLay, KNEW about this months ago and did nothing, allowing a sexual predator to remain a Republican Conrgessman in good standing. The layers of sleaze are deep and disgusting in this scandal. The transcripts of the email exchange are now public and pretty graphic.

Now let's remember that the Republican Party went after Clinton for having consensual sex with a consenting adult on his staff. But they TOLERATE and PROTECT Foley, a man who breaks the lawe by soliciting sex with an UNDERAGE staff member. Where is the moral outrage, Tom Reynolds (NY Republican)? Why did you wait so long, Tom DeLay (TX Republican) while a sexual predator was on the loose? Why did you wait until it became public, Dennis Hastert (Republican Speaker of the House), before you acted? These three men KNEW ABOUT FOLEY'S illegal and immoral acts but DID NOTHING for months. Only once the scandal hit the papers did they scramble to act all shocked. But they weren't shocked. They knew and they did nothing to stop a sexual predator. Their actions are not worthy of Congressmen so much of members of the sleazy NABMLA. Is this what Repubublicans are all about? Displaying the morality of NABMLA?

This once again shows the disgusting hypocricy and immorality of the current Republican Party. Ronald Reagan and Dwight Eisenhaur would be disgusted by Republicans today. But let's not forget that Foley's actions ARE NOT ISOLATED. Soliciting sex illegally via email is becoming a pattern.

Awhile back I covered the story of the extreme right wing, anti-gay Republican mayor of Spokane, WA who was caught soliciting homosexual sex over the internet in exchange for city jobs. The fact that he was publicly anti-gay but privately a practicing homosexual is merely hypocritical. Doing it over the internet when he had something to hide was outright stupid. And to offer city jobs in exchange for homosexual sex is criminal. So, the Republican mayor of Spokane displayed extreme stupidity, criminality and hypocrisy all at once. To their credit, the voters of Spokane ousted him from office the way we should also oust Hastert and Reynolds from office for their tolerance of Foley's disgusting actions. Tom DeLay is already disgraced and ousted by his own corruption.

Then let's not forget the Republican crony who was made the deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and who was arrested trying to solicit sex from teenage girls over the internet. Yes...the second in command of PR for our nation's Homeland Security was caught doing something immoral, illegal and utterly stupid.

Clinton got a blow job from a consenting adult on his own time. The Republicans stopped the busniness of the nation (including Clinton's attempts to go after bin Laden and al-Qaeda) in their eagerness to hound him from office. But when faced with the much, much worse crimes of offering jobs for sex or soliciting sex with minors, the Republicans are practically silent on the matter. That shows you just how moral they really are.

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Bouldin's picture

In fairness to NAMBLA

...at least they're not hypocritical about it. But then again, it would take the republican House leadership to make an association of admitted pedophiles look good by contrast.

Ouch, that was harsh. But true.

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Almost added that myself...

NAMBLA, disgusting though they are, are honest about what they are. The modern Republican Party is just as disgusting in their greedy, sleazy and nasty immorality, but they try to wrap themselves in some weird holiness that is about as false as Osama bin Laden's fake holiness.

Modern Republicans: a cross between NAMBLA and the Taliban.

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NAMBLA & THE 2004 NY CD-13 RACE

In the 2004 Congressional CD-13 election the Fossella crew put out a flyer acussing Frank Barbaro of siding with NAMBLA. Fossella took money from Foley and supported Foley being named Chairman of the Committee on Missing and Exploited Children.

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Fossella's prior comments

"I am shocked and disgusted by this twisted attempt to justify pedophilia."

"It crosses the line into deviancy to suggest that an 8-year old and a 45-year old could have a consensual sexual relationship. That is sexual assault, and there is no way to justify it."

"It seems these days that it is fairly easy to find a group that will attempt to justify the most heinous and ghastly acts."

"This is particularly disturbing in light of reports by the Child Advocacy Center that child sexual assault cases here are up this year. I can't begin to imagine what's next. An attempt to justify rape or domestic violence?"

No, this is not Rep. Vito Fossella's response to the acts of his fellow Republican member of Congress, Rep. Foley. These are excerpts from a press release of Fossella's criticizing a American Psychological Association study on sexual abuse, back in 1999.

http://www.house.gov/fossella/Press/pr990614.html

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GOP hypocrisy

The GOP impeached Bill Clinton and wanted him evicted from office because he got a blow job in the Oval Office from an aide. But hey, it was a female aide and she was a consenting adult. Isn't this Foley matter worse? Seems to me that Hastert and co. are being highly hypocritical to hide Foley's indiscretions after they tried to hang Bill Clinton.

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