The Republican leadership in the House knew about Foley but ignored it. Hmmmm.. Do you think that means Deborah Pryce knew something too? I'm just asking.
Sun Sentinel:
We now know, much to our dismay, that House leaders shirked their responsibility to protect pages and interns from the sexual predations of former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley. They looked the other way. They remained "willfully ignorant."
Yet in reaching those conclusions, an investigative panel of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct recommended that no disciplinary action be taken because no rules were broken by anyone but Foley, who has since resigned.
The report smacks of a whitewash by a committee that doesn't like to find fault with fellow House members. Either that or there's a serious need to revise the rules. Or both.
According to the panel's report, House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Majority Leader John Boehner and Rep. Tom Reynolds all knew about Foley's sexually oriented e-mails to House pages. The report finds "some evidence that political considerations played a role in decisions that were made by persons in both parties." It also finds a disconcerting pattern of people's claiming not to remember certain conversations. No wonder Congress' public approval ratings are even lower than those of President Bush.
Most troubling is that such activities could be going on, with full knowledge of the House leadership and others, without anyone's stopping them. Yet we are told no rules were broken.......
The Houston Chronicle also has a similar article about the Republican "ethics" used in the Foley case. I guess we can just say that the Republicans do not understand the meaning of ethics. While the GOP leadership kept their silence, male pages were sexually harassed by Republican Rep. Mark Foley. Shame!
We can look forward to a new day with the Democratic majority in the House and the Senate. The Democrats have promised reform and investigations! Oh, I am so excited!!!!!!