When you hear Republicans talk ad nauseum about values, keep this in mind--they value nothing more than winning and don't care who gets hurt in the process.
I believe that was already fairly obvious, but information coming out regarding the Mark Foley situation makes that even more so.
Foley, of course, is the Republican congressman who resigned last week after the revelation of perverted e-mails he sent to underage congressional pages. More is coming out about how much the party's leadership, all the way up to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, knew about the situation and their failure to take any action besides informal warings to pages to stay away from him.
The Republicans valued Foley's party-line voting record more than protecting young volunteers from a sexual predator.
Meanwhile, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council used this situation to launch another right-wing attempt to tie in homosexuality and pedophilia. Classy move, but about what I would expect.
One of the functions of government is supposed to be the protection of it's citizens. Who, then, will protect us from the government and its alleged leaders?
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This whole affair has laid bare the hypocrisy of the REpublican Party and I hope they pay the price for all of this in November. That they would cover up something like this all for the sake of keeping their power speaks volumes about the men, and make no mistake about it, they are all men who are running this country.
ReplyDeleteCheck out this article if you can stomach it:
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52244
I saw Katherine Harris on TV from Florida calling for an investigation into what exactly the Democrats knew and when they knew it, because "our children are at stake." Yes, absolutely. I would like to know how long it took the Democrats to tell the press that THE REPUBLICANS WERE PROTECTING A PERVERT. Sheesh.
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