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Home Front: Politix
Did Democrats Page Mark Foley?
2006-10-04
Right after Mark Foley was revealed to have had inappropriate e-mail conversations with a 16-year-old page, he resigned and checked into rehab. Now, what did Democrats know, and when did they know it?

Yes, you read that right: the Democrats. It's of course clear that Foley, a Republican representative from Florida, resigned for good cause. We don't defend him or his inexcusable behavior - good riddance. But it didn't take long at all after Foley's resignation for the Democrats to call for an investigation of the entire Republican leadership in the House, charging that GOP stalwarts knew early on that Foley, as they like to say in the rehab business, had a "problem."

Democrats have begun losing their once-significant lead in the polls, and a mere five weeks remain until the midterm elections. Is this scandal the Democrats' own "October Surprise," meant to throw the GOP into a tailspin shortly before the vote?
Posted by:Fred

#8  The entire page system is beginning to look like a circle jerk. Time to clean house there. All closets open, all queers out in the street. Come on Barney get moving.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-10-04 15:59  

#7  I smell a rat. First name starts with an N.

http://www.hogonice.com/

Posted by: eltoroverde   2006-10-04 12:20  

#6  dems knew about it 8 months ago. Nevermind the child, there is politics to play.
Posted by: newc   2006-10-04 10:54  

#5  This guy's a foul disgrace and I'm glad he's gone. Having said that, I've never seen a more shameless and transparent attempt at exploiting this than has been done by scumbag Pelosi. As far as I'm concerned, she's worse than a child molester, becuase her actions do great harm to the entire country, not just one constituency.

How will the country endure a "Speaker Pelosi"? The thought is too horrible to contemplate. We cannot allow it to happen. Republicans, get off your asses and see that it doesn't.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-10-04 10:41  

#4  Interesting. It looks to me like someone transcribed the e-mails in order to release them without showing where they've been and who else read them. Perhaps the e-mail had been forwarded so many times the original had been lost.

Foley, being a U.S. Congressman, would be using government issued computer at work. That would mean it would be running MicroSoft Office with Outlook. Likely he would use the same system at home, most government employees do so they can work at home. That includes persons from the "opposition".

I'll bet someone with computer savy was worried about any revealing meta-tags Microsoft is known to embed in their products showing where this mail has been. And just when it was first discovered. Just guessing, Foley is indeed a scumbag, but something else smells about this.
Posted by: Steve   2006-10-04 09:50  

#3  This could be huge. I don't defend Foley in the least and feel he's a disgrace to Congress for his actions. But if this is something like a set-up, or even with-held until the point the Democrats needed it, it could blow up in the Democrats faces big time.
Posted by: Charles   2006-10-04 07:44  

#2   passionateamerica has been all over this. He has goods on the altered messages and claims he is going to name the page that sent them tomorrow.
Posted by: Crurt Sneth8456   2006-10-04 02:26  

#1  Check this out from Washington Prowler
Posted by: Captain America   2006-10-04 01:42  

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