There has been much breast beating on the Congressman Foley-Senate page scandal. Certainly if revenge is best served cold, the Democrats have their due with this one. The party of the moral majority, the party of family values, the party committed to erasing the horror of the Lewinsky affair in the Oval Office has within it people of shabby morals. Shocking?? Of course not. The issue in all of this is not that there are sinners (or at least one sinner) in the GOP. The issue is the utter hypocrisy of the likes of Foley, and House Speaker Hastert and the gullibility of voters who believe in living saints who are self-beatified.
As for the press, it is pretty predictable. The Wall Street Journal – which went apoplectic about the Oval Office affair – commented that, †in today’s politically correct culture, it’s easy to understand how senior Republicans might well have decided they had no grounds doubt Mr. Foley merely because he was gay and a little too friendly in emailsâ€Â Is that bizarre or what?
Much of the mainstream press reports it in terms of its relationship to the coming elections, while at least one Dumbbell Radio loony compared Foley’s misuse of words with the Pope’s recent comments on Islam.
So we have this bizarre firestorm over a serious misdemeanor of a whacked out Congressman while thousands die in the War Without End in Iraq, Afghanistan has its largest poppy crop in history, a leading Republican Senator recommends inviting the Taliban into the Afghan government, Hezbollah continues to grow in strength in Lebanon, the U.S. middle class is disappearing downward, not upward, hope for peace in the Middle East has largely disappeared, and Bush et al just might be plotting an idiotic military adventure in Iran. And oh yeah, North Korea – that’s the country that actually HAS nuclear weapons, is preparing to test one. President Bush (aka Skippy) is touring the country raising money so we can re-elect the buffoons who have put us where we are. In Stupidistan.