The GOP, photo: Bush, Frist, Hatch, Santorum, Foley...

[ProSense]

From the Post: "Foley chaired the House caucus on missing and exploited children and was credited with writing the sexual-predator provisions of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, which Bush signed in July. A photo on the White House Web site shows Foley among those attending the signing ceremony."

The pro-torture wing:

Group Of Psychos

The pervert wing:

Group Of Pedophiles

[LynneSin]

1. So Rick won't allow a same-sex couple in a loving relationship...

...to form a lifetime bond, but he'll hang out with pedophiles

Really thinking this man has fucked up priorities

[ktowntennesseedem]

2. Looks like he fantasizing about Mr Walsh.

:puke:

[Pachamama]

3. How much do you want to bet that the Santorum family dog is not safe?

Ole Ricky has been having those Man-on-Dog fantasies for a very long time......

These psychos can't help themselves....and they hang out in packs....every thing about them is a contradiction and a hypocrisy....

[Vickers]

4. Hastert and Boehner knew about Foley's "problem" even at this signing

ceremony.

They knew that Foley was doing the EXACT THINGS that this was trying to stop.

Tell that to everybody you know.

THE REPUBLICANS WERE HARBORING A CHILD SEXUAL PREDATOR FOR MONTHS.

Oh, and look, Katherine Harris and her tits are right there with them!.

[NV Whino]

5. Now, now...

Foley was only doing research for his bill.

Guess I'd better add :sarcasm: that sounds perfectly logical for a repug.

[ProSense]

6. Pro-torture and pervert

[ProSense]

7. GOP Leaders Knew

GOP Leaders Knew Of Foley's Messages

Fallout of Notes to Page Fractures Party

By Jonathan Weisman and Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, October 1, 2006; Page A01

House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) was notified early this year of inappropriate e-mails from former representative Mark Foley (R-Fla.) to a 16-year-old page, a top GOP House member said yesterday -- contradicting the speaker's assertions that he learned of concerns about Foley only last week.

Hastert did not dispute the claims of Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds (R-N.Y.), and his office confirmed that some of Hastert's top aides knew last year that Foley had been ordered to cease contact with the boy and to treat all pages respectfully.

Reynolds, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, became the second senior House Republican to say that Hastert has known of Foley's contacts for months, prompting Democratic attacks about the GOP leadership's inaction. Foley abruptly resigned his seat Friday.

more...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093001265.html

October 1, 2006

G.O.P. Leaders Knew in Late ’05 of E-Mail

By CARL HULSE and RAYMOND HERNANDEZ

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 — 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, Republican lawmakers said Saturday.

The exchanges began with what Republicans now describe as an “overfriendly” e-mail message from Mr. Foley to the unidentified teenager. But news reports about the exchanges have led to the disclosure of e-mail correspondence with other former pages in which the discussions became more and more sexually explicit. Shortly after he was confronted by ABC News on Friday about the subject, Mr. Foley, who represented a south Florida district, resigned from the House.

The revelations set off a political upheaval, with Democrats and some Republicans alike calling for a full investigation of Mr. Foley’s conduct and whether House leaders did enough to look into it. Members of the Republican leadership sought Saturday to detail how they had handled the case in an effort to defuse the matter, even as it was emerging as an issue in Congressional races.

more...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/washington/01foley.html?hp&ex=1159675200&en=a7760582db028fd5&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[ProSense]

8. GOP tripped up by lies

From Talking Points:

(October 01, 2006 -- 08:32 AM EDT)

This just gets better and better.

Snip...

Hastert's internal investigation says Shimkus never saw the emails. Shimkus says he did. Shimkus' spokesman says he didn't.

more...

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9. New Foley Instant Messages

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2298627&mesg_id=2298627