Heads up Pelosi Is calling a motion on Mark Foley

[Monkeyman]

Nancy Privileged Resolution

The Privileged Resolution calls for an immediate investigation by the House Ethics Committee into the abuses of Rep. Mark Foley and requires a preliminary report to the House withen 10 days.

The House will take uo the following vote immediately.

GO NANCY

[rusty_parts2001]

1. Hastert cover-up is the most important story here.

[Canuckistanian]

15. What? How did Hastert cover this up?

Was there verifiable proof that Hastert had prior knowledge about Foley?

If so, that could be HUGH!

[rosesaylavee]

18. Yes!

He's known about it for a year - check out the front page. Hope it has sticking power.

[populistdriven]

25. House Speaker Complicit in Foley Teen Sex Scandal Coverup?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2262390&mesg_id=2262390

[me b zola]

35. Thanks for the link

I just popped over to k&r :)

[Canuckistanian]

39. Thanks

[rosesaylavee]

17. Agreed.

Bring 'im down - would love to see him lose this election big time.

[Erika]

19. Agreed. Hastert is as dirty as Foley

if he withheld abuse of a minor from authorities.

[Monkeyman]

26. Yep we are on it here

www.john06.com

[Monkeyman]

27. Rumor has it Hastert was accused of the same thing years ago

When he was teaching Wrestling

[kestrel91316]

29. Hell, it wouldn't surprise me in the least to find out that ol' Denny's

ANOTHER homosexual pedophile. They protect each other in their positions of power.

[jean]

42. yes - he's next in line for the presidency after Cheney ..

[Sydnie]

2. Now, let's see if they protect this piece of garbage or not n/t

[soup]

3. Would anyone dare vote nay? n/t

[LSK]

4. the House is back?? I turned CSPAN on and Chimpy was speaking

So I have had the Senate on since.

PS they are debating the Port Security Act in the Senate.

[Monkeyman]

7. She forcing the issue

Got this right from my contact in her office there now going to be a pdf file on her site with the motion. PrivilegedResolutiononMarkFoley.pdf
http://DemocraticLeader.house.gov

[rzemanfl]

5. Fifth vote for greatest. Ya know, if these people worked more

they wouldn't have to be there late on a Friday night.

[Old and In the Way]

6. Good political move.

Coming back at'cha Rove. How do you want your poison?

[Gabi Hayes]

8. they're ALL voting for the resolution!

guess they realize they have to.....

[LSK]

10. yeah, I see that

So would the ethics committee dig on who know what and when??? Could it take out more Rethugs?

[Imagevision]

43. K&R

[chat_noir]

9. Now to our SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY campaign to protect kids.

'Scarborough Country' for May 23, 2005

Why are nearly 200 convicted sex offenders, serious convicted sex offenders in New York state alone, getting Viagra paid for by the government? It‘s because of a loophole in the Medicaid law. And it‘s been going on now for five years.

With me to talk about this outrage is Congressman Mark Foley. He is, of course, from Florida, who just last week introduced a new sex offender legislation bill on Capitol Hill that we‘re following very closely and urging you to support.

Congressman, thanks so much for being with us tonight.

REP. MARK FOLEY ®, FLORIDA: Thanks, Joe.

SCARBOROUGH: Taxpayers—Mark, you know, you think you‘ve heard it all, but taxpayers are basically being forced to buy Viagra for serious sex offenders. How does something like this happen and will you stop it?

FOLEY: We‘re going to stop it. It‘s outrageous. It‘s playing Russian roulette with our kids.

I‘ll pay to have them chemically castrated, but I‘m not going to pay to sexually enhance their performance on our kids. This has got to stop. I applaud Senator Schumer, Senator Clinton for highlighting this. I‘m going to go to the House floor and try and stop it in all states. New York may just be the tip of the iceberg. I‘m certain other states are doing this as well.

SCARBOROUGH: Mark, you know what bothers me? I‘ll guarantee you this. When a comptroller looks at what‘s been happening in the state of Florida, California, Texas, every state across America, you‘re going to find out, because states are required—as you know, states are required to supply Viagra to Medicaid patients who qualify for it.

So, we know that, in Florida, in California, in Texas, in every other state across America, taxpayers are being forced to pay for Viagra, again, for these people who have assaulted, who have raped our children. Now, tell me, how quickly can you turn a bill around, drop it on the floor in the House, get it passed there, and what do our viewers need to do to make sure that this outrage is stopped?

FOLEY: Well, obviously, you know House protocol. You can do a suspension bill that can be brought to the floor within a week or two.

And I think the outrage, collective outrage, on this issue alone will prompt your listeners, your viewers to immediately call their members of Congress, as SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY has done on my bill on sexual predators. We‘ve received e-mails from around the country applauding the bill and urging how they can get involved.

So, once again, SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY is taking the lead on an issue that I know most of your viewers are saying, this can‘t seriously be happening in our country. And it is. We‘ll get a bill ready. I‘m certain the senators will have one as well.

We‘ve got to get this practice stopped and stopped now, because you‘re actually—listen to what a defense lawyer will probably say if one of these people recommits a crime: Well, the country gave me the drugs which helped me participate in my next bad behavior. So, I was lured into taking the drug by the state, then acted out my sexual urges because of the state.

Maybe a foolproof defense. We‘ve got to stop it in its tracks.

SCARBOROUGH: Congressman, stay with us right now. I understand this young girl who was raped, who was buried alive, who was left for dead actually comes from your hometown. We‘re going to talk to you about that.

But, right now, friends, Mark Foley is going to drop a bill on the House floor. If you‘d like to find out more about that bill, more about what‘s going on in SCARBOROUGH COUNTRY, check out our Web site at Joe.MSNBC.com. We‘re going to be tracking the Foley bill. And, as soon as he drops it, we‘re going to give you all the information, so you can flood Capitol Hill with your phone calls and e-mails. And we can end this outrage at once.

We‘ll be right back.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

SCARBOROUGH: So, Congressman Foley, on the day that we find out about this Viagra legislation, that we are funding Viagra for sex offenders, you find out in your hometown, a little 8-year-old girl raped and buried alive. Talk about that for a minute, if you will.

FOLEY: Well, it‘s depressing, Joe.

We have had so many cases in Florida recently where these young children have been violated so grotesquely and then put away like trash. People wouldn‘t treat their pets like this. It really depresses me. Sergeant Mike Hall of the Lake Worth Police Department deserves kudos for, as Dr. Van Zandt said, digging through the trash to try and find hope for that girl‘s parents.

It‘s just unbelievable, though. We have seen so many crimes of this type of behavior. This 17-year-old I pray never walks again, because, if he could treat an 8-year-old with such disregard, he doesn‘t deserve to live himself. I would rather not feed him for 75 years. But, certainly, I think, in this particular case, capital punishment would be exactly what the doctor orders.

SCARBOROUGH: All right, thanks so much, Mark Foley. We greatly appreciate it.

And, again, we are going to be helping you out in your bill. We‘re also going to be helping you out in the bill that you are going to be dropping tomorrow, talking about stopping the funding of Viagra for sex offenders. Just unbelievable.

Thanks for being with us, Congressman.

FOLEY: Thanks, Joe.

SCARBOROUGH: We greatly appreciate it.

FOLEY: Thanks very much.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7963491

[Armstead]

12. Heh-heh....Bevis, he said Suspension Bill ....Heh,Heh,Heh

[intheflow]

13. Yeah, I would support chemical castration in his case, for sure.

PLEASE use my tax dollars for this!

[countmyvote4real]

32. Typical hypocritical Rep M.O.

"We rail against the people that hate us because we hate ourselves for being subject to the crimes that we ultimately do, whenever we do, because we can." You will NEVER hear that statement from the controlling party of the Congress, Executive and Judicial branches of our Government. It contains too much truth.

The spin AKA deceit should be carefully monitored and analyzed.

[struggle4progress]

44. Great find!

[Generic Other]

11. I just turned on CSPAN

Did they unanimously pass the resolution? Looks that way.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

14. Here's an article about a college event by John Laesch, Hastert's

young Democratic opponent in Illinois 14th:

From http://www.star.niu.edu/articles/?id=26616

Candidate speaks to College Democrats
Published on: Wednesday, September 6, 2006
NorthernStar Online

DeKALB -- John Laesch, democratic candidate for U.S. Congress, spoke to the College Democrats Tuesday about his feelings on the war in Iraq and outing and end to corruption in Washington, D.C. Laesch is challenging incumbent Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert in the November elections. Only once has a sitting Speaker of the House been defeated, and that was in 1994, Laesch said. He believes the same symptoms that lead to that upturn are present today. Throughout his speaking Laesch described his dislike for Hastert and his politics.

"Hastert is in charge of all the other little Republicans," Laesch said. "He's like the big, fat queen bee. It's a fitting description."

Laesch also didn't shy away from voicing his anti-Iraq War policies, using them as a cornerstone of his political platform. "This whole war was about putting a permanent U.S. presence in the Middle East and nothing else ... except maybe oil," Laesch said.

Pulling out of Iraq should be top priority, and the U.S. has no business being there, he said. "Hastert is going to jail along with President Bush and Dick Cheney for the crimes that they have committed," Laesch said. "These guys have been breaking the laws and the first one they are going to go after is President Bush. ..."

[Monkeyman]

16. Hi Welcome to the DU

www.john06.com

[ProgressiveEconomist]

30. Thanks! What a memorable campaign sitename! Laesch is a vet too?

As in Iraqi Invasion vet? Or Gulf War under Poppy Bush?

[LSK]

20. it is adopted unanimously

[Greeby]

21. 409-0

Of course, it matters little, this is sposed to be the last of the Congress before the election

[Rose Siding]

22. There better be an investigation. gop leaders had this a YEAR ago

From TPM:

Big. Big Trouble.

We caught wind of this and tried our damneddest to confirm it this afternoon. But we weren't able to. Rep. Alexander's office wasn't eager to return out calls.

But now the AP has the story. And here's why there may be a lot more fall out from the Rep. Foley (R-FL) story.

The page in question worked for Rep. Rodeny Alexander (R-LA). And the page brought the matter of his contacts with Foley to the congressman's attention via a staffer, who I'm told has since left Rep. Alexander's employ.

Here's the key passage from the AP article ...

The page worked for Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., who said Friday that when he learned of the e-mail exchanges 10 to 11 months ago, he called the teen's parents. Alexander told the Ruston Daily Leader, "We also notified the House leadership that there might be a potential problem," a reference to the House's Republican leaders.
I assume that passage doesn't need much unpacking. But let's do it anyway.

So Rep. Alexander knew about this 10 or 11 months ago. And he says he notified the House leadership. That means Hastert and (at the time) either Tom DeLay or Rep. Blunt (R-MO). We don't know it was either of those three men yet. But that's what Alexander means when he says he "notified the House leadership." They're the House leadership.

If I'm understanding this correctly, that means that the leaders of the House Republican caucus have known for almost a year that a member of their caucus was having cybersex with an underage congressional page. And apparently they did nothing about it.

I think this story is about to get a lot bigger.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/010054.php

[RandiFan1290]

41. Looks like Foley had plenty of time

to try and cover his digital tracks and destroy any other evidence that might be on his computers.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

23. Bill Clinton, sex w/adult woman lasted six months, cost taxpayers $7 mill

n/t

[SharonAnn]

34. I think it was over $77 million.

[Red Right and BLUE]

38. It was nearly $100 million.

not counting anyone's personal costs.

[sweetheart]

24. Democrats will not tolerate child abuse in the congress

Republican youth nobbing has gone far enough.

The bounty of republicans with interns humped over their desks taking it in the behind whilst the
republicans are on the telephone; those days are over.

A new motion is to be tabled, that condoms be provided freely in dispensers
along the halls of conggress so that any republican can fuck a child whenever
they need to, as nobody should stand in the way of values like that.

Nobody should stand up to republican paedophilia, as they're screwing
everything else, why not the kids, they're not bolted down or anything...
hey, its a conservative value, underage sexual abuse, its time
to come out of the closet.

[Tom Joad]

36. But they all vote to fund the Iraq war. Killing thousands of children.

[sweetheart]

37. But our facist prison nation

has no problems about murdering muslims, muslim iraqis, lebannese, iranians,
afganis, and people would miss out on the huge racist vote if they go
against THAT... but men in the congress fucking underaged boys is *shocking*.

/hint of irony in a sick dissonant moral cespool

[JohnnyRingo]

28. This better not be another "party line vote"

This band of criminals known as the Republican Party have stopped too many ethics and incompetence hearings because their fellow conspirators were involved.

Like the vote to declassify the NIE brief earlier this week.
I just hear that as: "No!...Us Republicans don't want government oversight, so we all voted no."

[IChing]

31. This will be on the news all next week and Homeland secrutiy aide was

sentenced to 5 years

Sep 19, 2006

Former U.S. Homeland Security press aide Brian Doyle will spend up to five years in prison on charges he preyed on a 14-year-old girl who turned out to be a Polk County undercover detective.

Doyle signed a plea agreement with prosecutors Tuesday, pleading no contest to the nearly two dozen cyber-sex charges against him in return for a five-year cap on the time he could be sentenced to prison. When he gets out, he will be on probation for 10 years and must register as a sex offender for life, his attorney said.

Circuit Judge J. Dale Durrance will sentence Doyle, 56, on Nov. 17.

After his morning court appearance, Doyle told reporters he was sorry. His attorney said he has paid a "horrendous" price already, citing his inability to find work since his arrest.

http://www.worldcantwait.net/

[leesa]

33. Oh now THIS they get right on. Now THIS is important, right Nancy?

God, our Congress sucks.

[Liberal Dose]

40. Lazy asses only push hard for the easy ones. n/t