Sorry
I know that SA was down for most of yesterday. From what I understand, the server on which SA is hosted crashed, and it took a while to get things back up and running. All is well now though.
I hope.
September 30, 2006
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October 1st, 2006 at 3:19 am
You mean it wasn’t cognitive dissonance from the Republican member of Congress who served as co-chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children Caucus resigning when he was discovered hitting on 16-year-old pages? See, http://www.kttc.com/News/index.php?ID=7150 and http://abcnews.go.com/images/WNT/02-02-03b.pdf
The term chickenhawk has recently been used in reference to politicians who support the Iraq war despite having avoided military service or duty themselves, e.g., George W. AWOL, Cheney, DeLay, Frist, etc. Will it now revert to its more traditional, pejorative meaning?
October 1st, 2006 at 3:39 am
The New York Times is now reporting that top House Republicans knew for months about e-mail traffic between Representative Mark Foley and a former teenage page, but kept the matter secret and allowed Mr. Foley to remain head of a Congressional caucus on children’s issues. See, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/washington/01foley.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5094&en=72f54d420adcb9e2&hp&ex=1159761600&partner=homepage
According to the Times story, “Among those who became aware earlier this year of the fall 2005 communications between Mr. Foley and the 16-year-old page, who worked for Representative Rodney Alexander, Republican of Louisiana, were Representative John A. Boehner, the majority leader, and Representative Thomas M. Reynolds of New York, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. Mr. Reynolds said in a statement Saturday that he had also personally raised the issue with Speaker J. Dennis Hastert.”
Please the schadenfreude; I realize it is not very Christian of me. I cannot help but wonder though, what will Jerry Falwell say, in light of his organization’s having fretted about what Tinky Winky did with the genitalia that it does not have.