Tony Blankley weighs in: Republican Integrity (goes after Hastert)

[babylonsister]

Isn't that oxymoronic?

http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20061003-084828-8511r.htm

Yesterday, the lead editorial of The Washington Times called for House Speaker Denny Hastert to resign his speakership immediately. I am the editor of the editorial page. Several loyal Republicans and conservatives around the country strongly disagreed with that judgment and thought we were caving to Democratic Party and liberal media pressure and dirty tricks.
I couldn't disagree with my fellow conservatives and Republicans more. I have been an active and loyal Republican for more than 40 years (starting as a youth coordinator for Barry Goldwater in 1964, campaigning for Ronald Reagan for governor and president, serving in the Reagan White House for six years and as Newt Gingrich's press secretary from 1990 to 1997, among other Republican campaigns and jobs).
I believe in and have regularly fought the partisan fight to the bitter end — except when the position is ethically indefensible.
In this case, defending Denny Hastert's decisions is ethically wrong, would undermine our party's commitment to the defense of traditional moral values and is politically stupid in the bargain.

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Forget the later hideous text messages. When the speaker was told that Mark Foley had sent that first e-mail — the "overly friendly" one that we all saw last Friday — he had to be either obtuse or on notice of the problem. Any father of a young man who saw such an e-mail sent to his son would rightly be disposed to immediately punch out Mr. Foley and warn him to keep away from his son, and then he would call the police. It was common knowledge that Mr. Foley was gay. If he had been straight and asked for a 16-year-old girl's photo, any sensible person would have concluded the same thing.
But the fact that, according to my best sources in the House Republicans, Mr. Hastert never informed any Democrats of the matter (even on the page oversight board), unambiguously suggests that he knew what was up. Thus began the cover-up. Of course he knew what the Democrats would do with the information. But not only is this not a Democratic Party dirty trick (the facts are real, not made up), but Mr. Hastert had a moral duty to do all in his power to make sure there would not be more victims of Mr. Foley's alleged sexual predation — or clear potential for such.
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[cboy4]

1. Tony must be smoking crack or "borrowing" Rush's Oxycontin,

because this doesn't sound like the nitwit Tony Blankley I see on T.V......who's usually bubbling with nothing but ridiculous partisan hogwash.

I'll edit this to say he of course still sounds like a nitwit and a liar.

[rfranklin]

2. Well, Tony, this is what happens when you support liars and crooks...

They end up being liars and crooks. You enabled this, Tony. You supported the lies about Iraq. You supported the lies about taxes. You supported the lies about Social Security "reform." You supported lies about the phoney "War on Terror." You have supported the massive corruption between Cheney and Halliburton, Bush and Enron, Cheney and the oil companies. This is just another facet of the criminal enterprise that calls itself the Republican Party.

[habitual]

3. interesting little bit at the end that is already proven wrong...

"While I don't have any proof, I will be amazed if Democratic operatives and at least a few Democratic congressmen didn't know about this and fed it to the media through various obscure blogs and to ABC. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) (just like the National Republican Congressional Committee) is in the business of disseminating negative information before elections, among other things.
It will be interesting to see what the FBI finds in the DCCC e-mail and files. It may well turn out that the Democrats also knew about Mr. Foley and the pages and held it back from the FBI for crass partisan purposes.
But whatever the Democrats did or didn't do, we Republicans can only be responsible for our own conduct and conscience. "

UNBELIEVABLE.

See here for the latest from ABC saying that repubs are responsible not dems..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2302660

[KoKo]

6. So Blankley says FBI is going to go through the DCC's e-mails and files...

Cool, Blankley. It's not as if the FBI and Repugs haven't gone into Dems files before every time you need to know what we are doing. And, what about Mr. Foley's laptop? Didn't get the FBI involved quick enough to see if he had any porn on there, did you? But...no...you just can't wait to see what Dems have in THEIR files.

What a disgusting slime he is....:puke:

[Evergreen Emerald]

4. It does not sound like the journalists got that story as it is the huge

talking point: "dems leaked for political advantage." And no one is calling them on that lie.

[Roy]

5. This is Tony's message to the kool-aid drinkers.....

In a rag that only they read. Watch him on the next showing of McLaughlin Report and I will bet he will be blaming everyone except Foley. Doing the same things that he advise the kool-aid drinkers not do.

[peekaloo]

7. That editorial called for Henry Hyde's nomination to be speaker.

oh but I guess Hyde only goes after married women. youthful indiscretions. :eyes:

[Supersedeas]

8. never informed the Page Oversight Board--should be repeated again & again