{"id":770,"date":"2006-10-06T16:40:02","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T21:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=770"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:23:45","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:23:45","slug":"if-denny-hastert-had-been-a-minnesota-principal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"If Denny Hastert had been a Minnesota Principal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans have been busy trying to\u00c2\u00a0blame a\u00c2\u00a0Democratic, gay or mainstream\u00c2\u00a0media plot to hurt the Republican Party. Some Republicans have even been blaming the boys that Congressman Foley was hitting on. Some GOP bloggers have\u00c2\u00a0even suggested that because the boys were teens and not children it wasn&#8217;t so bad.\u00c2\u00a0That&#8217;s an argument that reminds me of Rush Limbaugh\u00c2\u00a0when he said that the torture at\u00c2\u00a0Abu Gharib was\u00c2\u00a0more like fraternity hazing.<\/p>\n<p>A simple mea culpa would be much more becoming<\/p>\n<p>No matter how much they try to evade responsibility its apparent that some Republicans have known about\u00c2\u00a0this problem for several years. Based on new reports from former pages\u00c2\u00a0it <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/theblotter\/2006\/10\/three_more_form.html\">goes back at least 8 years<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jewishworldreview.com\/cols\/jonah100506.php3\">Jonah Goldberg<\/a> who is railing about the democrats hypocrisy has also tossed out a new word for\u00c2\u00a0Foley.\u00c2\u00a0Goldberg says that Foley is not a pedophile but an\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;ephebophile.&#8221; According to the online dictionary I just consulted\u00c2\u00a0this is\u00c2\u00a0a gay man who is interested in young men past puberty not young boys. Oh, just like lots of heterosexuals.<\/p>\n<p>The simple truth\u00c2\u00a0is that what Foley\u00c2\u00a0hinted at\u00c2\u00a0is wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 One of my daughter&#8217;s former choir director&#8217;s was put in prison for doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Denny Hastert was more interested in preserving his Republican majority than in protecting pages. Its the Republican Party\u00c2\u00a0acting like\u00c2\u00a0the Catholic Church. If Hastert had been a principal in a Minnesota school his coverup could have put him behind bars too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans have been busy trying to\u00c2\u00a0blame a\u00c2\u00a0Democratic, gay or mainstream\u00c2\u00a0media plot to hurt the Republican Party. Some Republicans have even been blaming the boys&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}