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Republicans Dropped The Dime on Foley
Brassmask:
So, no Vast LEFT Wing Conspiracy here.
Looks like someone just wanted to do the right thing. As opposed to Hastert and the gang who just took their $100,000 and kept their mouths shut in order to not have to spend millions defending Foley's seat this year.
Staying in power is more important than protecting teenagers from IM'ing pervs.
ABC debunks claim that Foley scandal was election trick.
ABC’s Brian Ross “dismissed suggestions by some Republicans that the news was disseminated as part of a smear campaign against Mr. Foley,†the New York Times reports. “I hate to give up sources, but to the extent that I know the political parties of any of the people who helped us, it would be the same party,†Mr. Ross said, referring to Republicans. 8:20 am | Comment (4)
From http://thinkprogress.org/...
Brassmask:
<p>And guess what else?
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<p> They knew and didn't care.
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<p>NOVAK says so.
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<h3><a href="http://politicalwire.com/archives/2006/10/04/reynolds_convinced_foley_to_run.html" title="Reynolds Convinced Foley to Run"> Reynolds Convinced Foley to Run[/url]
</h3> Robert Novak reports that "even after House GOP leaders knew that Foley had written an inappropriate e-mail to a 16-year-old former male page, they were still urging him to seek re-election."
Novak writes: "A member of the House leadership told me that Foley, under continuous political pressure because of his sexual orientation, was considering not seeking a seventh term this year but that Rep. Tom Reynolds, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), talked him into running."
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BT:
Interesting, though unconfirmed. Hearsay repeated is just hearsay.
And it still doesn't bring you any closer to proving that Hastert and Company knew about the IM's and thus were involved in a coverup.
Brassmask:
Dude,
Hastert knew enough a year ago. So did Reynolds and all the rest.
They just didn't care as long as Foley didn't get caught. Problem is, he got caught and his own team dropped a dime on him.
The house of cards is crashing in on you and the people you have supported and protected for five years +.
I'm not gloating, I'm just trying to point it out to you that I've been right all along. They have wanted to keep power no matter what. This isn't just the Foley thing crashing you guys' game. It's Foley + Rice lying about Tenet's briefing (10 on a scale of 1 to 10) + Woodward's book (I won't withdraw even if its only Laura and Barney supporting me) + FOX having the story on Foley and not running it + FOX trying to make Foley out to be a Democrat + 100 attacks a day in Iraq that Bush lies about + Cheney STILL trying to say that there was a connection between Saddam and 9.11 + the bullshit stories that the ABC MOW tried to spread that Clinton somehow missed bin Laden numerous times + Clinton putting the smackdown on Chris Wallace.
And the election is next month.
Now this doesn't even get into the whole theory that even my extremely mild-mannered and level-headed wife is now considering that I put forth back just post-9.11 that the neo-cons are in collusion with the DLC types and all this GOP horror fest is just so these cultists can keep power under the guise of the Democratic brand. Try getting your head around that one.
They work together throughout the Clinton years under the guise of triangulation and then they hand the whole thing over to the neo-cons who really want to invade Iraq and get their hands on as much resources as possible plus set up military bases that make world-domination easier and then in order to keep those people from being lynched by 2008, they start the slow implosion of the GOP so that when Hillary and the gang steal the '08 election no one will make one peep because who wouldn't vote the opposite of the people who protected a ephebophile?
If over the next two years, the GOP continues to slide down and down, I'll have no choice but to believe this to all be the absolute case. The rabbit hole goes deeper than we think.
Brassmask:
Not to mention, BT...
But...
GOP members and staffers knew about Foley's behavior for over 11 years, former page says
by John in DC - 10/04/2006 12:12:00 AM
Washington Post
"Mark Foley knew that he could get away with this type of behavior with male pages because he was a congressman," [former page Mark] Beck-Heyman said. "But many people on Capitol Hill, including many high-level Republican staffers and members, have known for over 11 years about what was going on and chose to do nothing."
http://americablog.blogspot.com/
I'm sure you count this as hearsay or something that is good and hair-split. Why not just admit they knew and didn't care? In fact, that they worked to hide it from Dems?
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