Congress - Sorry Excuses
for Human Beings
October 3, 2006
Republican Congressman Mark Foley of
Florida resigned on September 29th after sexually suggestive
emails he sent to an under-aged boy were disclosed then published. Further,
because he could directly not face the consequences he checked into an
alcohol rehabilitation program to hide from the public he was sworn to
serve.
Mark Foley is a pitiful excuse for a
human being and is a morally corrupt politician. He held a position of trust
and power over subordinate employees such as pages and he repeatedly
violated that trust by pressuring at least one child to engage in sexual
conversation via emails. Foley is certainly not fit to hold office and
though his resignation was a good thing his motives were to run and hide.
Let’s hope the investigation Dennis
Hastert, the Republican House Speaker will be credible since in the past,
past such things have been shams and whitewashes. Reality means there will
be no formal Congressional action on this until after the elections next
month; the timing for Republicans could not be better.
Many believe Hastert knew of Foley’s
sexually explicit emailing in 2005 and did nothing. If this is true, his
inaction certainly supports the notion that he kept things quiet until after
the elections this year. If so, Hastert must resign and he too is a sorry
excuse for a human being and politician.
If the facts start piling up as they
probably will in the weeks before the election, and they point to a
cover-up, then Hastert needs to resign immediately like his buddy Foley.
But politics will rule out and
Republicans will eventually close ranks to minimize the fallout and then
place the blame solely on Mark Foley. They and their morally corrupt allies
will blame likely Democrats and even work Bill Clinton into their responses.
If so, then they are all sorry excuses for human beings.
