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 So now what?
10/5/06 19:38:04
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Word around D.C. is that conservatives are mighty pissy about this whole Foley thing, and who can blame them? One month to what promises to be a nip-and-tuck election day and THIS detonates. It almost makes you feel sorry for them (almost). So what to do now? Foley has resorted to every posis, from clergy molestation to alcoholism, but not demonic possession - at least not yet - to explain his "naughty e-mails" (to quote Tony Snow). But at least one conservative group, the festive Focus on the Family, has agreed to give the disgraced former Congressman the benefit of the doubt, at least so far:
The conservative group Focus on the Family said leaders should have responded more aggressively to Foley’s attempt to solicit a picture from the 16-year-old page in the e-mail, but hindsight is 20-20.
"We disagree with that, those calls are way overblown. Facts are still coming out. ... There were acts of omission," said Focus on the Family’s Tom Minnery.
Please remember that this is the same group that warned of the dangers of Spongebob Squarepants and his sinister ability to homosexualize "the children".
Given the seriousness of this situation for the Republicans and the fact that this story has more legs than a centipede, I’m taking bets from readers. Clearly it’s Wag the Dog time; the question is how? What? When? Post your guesses in the comments section below. Remember: It’s almost time to go to the ballot box, so the caper that’s pulled off will have to be fairly impressive.
Guess away.
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Congressman: I was drunk! Drudge: They asked for it!
10/3/06 18:46:25
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Read details of Foley’s and Drudge’s latest shame.
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Hey man, long time no see
10/2/06 18:04:35
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So this posting is goes out to all of you who may were suspecting the worse -- that I’d vanished, that I’d gotten bored with all this blogging mess, that my heart was no longer in the blogging world, or that I never actually existed at all....
Rest assured that I’ve very much here, as in here on earth, just not virtually here, if you know what I mean. Truth be told, my mighty blogging output, once a mighty river of wit and sarcasm, has been dammed up by the most horrific, paralyzing case of writer’s block I’ve ever had in my life, which I’ve been powerless to overcome. Imagine my frustration as I’ve watched Scooter Libby led off, Joe Lieberman lose, the DC press corps get off its collective behind and start asking real questions about Iraq for a change, read a deluge of increasingly embittered and angry postings over at Larry Johnson’s blog (keep up the good work, buddy), grown increasingly disgruntled wtih the dearth of interesting information from the Hollywood rags (whither Jen and Vince? Is that all there is? Really?), and most recently observed the House Republican leadership try to explain away this embarrassing little Mark Foley problem:
Three months ago, Mark Foley stood behind President Bush in the Rose Garden as the president signed a new law targeting adults who prey on children.
It was a familiar role for the silver-haired Foley, an affable Republican star who made a career out of tough talk about putting predators behind bars. As co-chairman of the House missing and exploited children’s caucus, he led a charge to keep tighter tabs on sex offenders and to strengthen penalties for trafficking in child pornography.
’’We track library books better than we do sexual predators,’’ he said last September after the House voted in favor of the Children’s Safety Act, which creates a website listing child sex offenders.
You really can’t make this up.
The point is that I want to thank those of you who didn’t punish me by yanking my link down from your "Favorites" and "Friends" navs (talk about a fate worse than death). Slowly, slowly the clouds are lifting, and I promise to tell you some stories about my recent experiences that many of you may find hard to believe. Then again, the best stories usually are.
It’s good to be back, y’all.
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