More and more evidence is piling up that the Republican leadership in Congress have been lying about what they knew about Foley's behavior when.
And what are the Republicans doing about it? Leading neocon William Kristol proposed Thursday on Fox News that to demonstrate that they are really concerned about children's safety, Democrats should support the Boy Scouts in its ban on gay Scoutmasters in order to protect children from "people like Foley"--except that the Scouts have banned gay men generally. In other words, Kristol is saying Democrats should buy into the canard that no gay man can be trusted around male children. Ken Mehlman and Ed Gillespie, head and former head of the Republican National Committee, respectively (among a number of other Republicans), have been claiming that the Republican leadership dealt with Foley the minute the sexually explicit instant messages were revealed by demanding that he resign. Except that Foley *actually* resigned, on his own hook, *before* the explicit IMs became public. For Republicans to take credit for his resignation is a blatant and knowing lie. Republicans are demanding an investigation into whether Democratic leaders knew about the sexually explicit IMs long before they became public and kept it to themselves, then gave the information to the media when they knew it would do the most damage to the Republicans. Unlike with the Republicans, there is *zero* evidence that any Democrat knew anything about the IMs; and there *is* evidence that the people who secretly gave the IMs to the media were Republicans. All this is an attempt to distract the voters' attention from the Republican leadership's malfeasance in the Foley case, covering up what they knew so they could keep a Republican seat in Congress. These people are completely devoid of any moral or ethical compass whatsoever. And they've been working with the thoroughly unscrupulous Bush administration to run this country for the past six years. For documentation and more details, see Glenn Greenwald's blog today: http://tinyurl.com/l2hsr To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
