Republicans have been busy trying to blame a Democratic, gay or mainstream media plot to hurt the Republican Party. Some Republicans have even been blaming the boys that Congressman Foley was hitting on. Some GOP bloggers have even suggested that because the boys were teens and not children it wasn’t so bad. That’s an argument that reminds me of Rush Limbaugh when he said that the torture at Abu Gharib was more like fraternity hazing.
A simple mea culpa would be much more becoming
No matter how much they try to evade responsibility its apparent that some Republicans have known about this problem for several years. Based on new reports from former pages it goes back at least 8 years .
Jonah Goldberg who is railing about the democrats hypocrisy has also tossed out a new word for Foley. Goldberg says that Foley is not a pedophile but an “ephebophile.” According to the online dictionary I just consulted this is a gay man who is interested in young men past puberty not young boys. Oh, just like lots of heterosexuals.
The simple truth is that what Foley hinted at is wrong. One of my daughter’s former choir director’s was put in prison for doing it.
Denny Hastert was more interested in preserving his Republican majority than in protecting pages. Its the Republican Party acting like the Catholic Church. If Hastert had been a principal in a Minnesota school his coverup could have put him behind bars too.
