Mark Foley - Gay Congressman Resigns - The Real Deal
Florida Congressman Mark Foley has resigned from Congress amid charges and allegations that he had inappropriate e-mail contacts with a former teenage page in the House of Representatives. So what's the real deal? What's really going on? You can read the mainline press, and watch television, but you'll never get to the real story that way. You have to ferret it out for yourself, and that's what we have done. We have talked with the movers and the shakers, to learn what's really happening.
First off, no one has a right to violate the sanctity of a teenager's world. In our country young people are protected and given rights precisely because they are young. They are at an age where they can not protect themselves. It is the sign of an advanced society that we choose to protect them, as well we should.
People who would prey on our children should go to jail for the rest of their lives. There is no need to give such "scum" a second chance. We shouldn't take that chance by giving them another chance. It is also the symbol of an advanced society that the framers of our constitution went out of their way to protect the rights of criminals. Compared to every other society on earth, here's one observer that thinks we do a fairly good job. Now having said that what's going on in Washington?
First off, neither party has a stranglehold on ethics. The Democrats have stolen just as much money through the years as the Republicans. What they spend it on may be different, but the money in both cases seems to DISAPPEAR, with very little to show for it. The first rule of government, and I learned this personally from Noble Prize winning economist Milton Friedman is that, "Whoever is in power, loves to spend money."
Ronald Reagan was a hero of mine. Nobody could spend money like him, until this President that is. At least Reagan bankrupted the Soviet Union and drove them out of power. What does Bush have to show for his trillions? A war without clearly defined objectives, and hundreds of billions in pork spending that no society can afford. He is the first President in my lifetime that has chosen not to exercise the power of the VETO.
This gay Congressman was not a sleeper. People around him knew his peculiarities. They chose to ignore them for their own reasons. Foley was running to be Senator from Florida a couple of years ago, and the party torpedoed the nomination to give it to Mel Martinez out of fear that word would get out.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives knew something was up and decided to keep quiet. Don't these guys realize by now that