The Republicans — thinking that my idea of Congressman Foley's page nemisis taking it upon himself to bust Congressman Perv (D-Florida) on his own was too clever by half — have decided to expand on my whole proposal and out-and-out call it a "prank."
Hmm.
Jil: "So you're saying that Congressman Foley didn't encourage the guy to 'measure regularly'? That he didn't have detailed discussions with a 16-year-old Congressional page about masturbation?"
Mr. Strawman: "No, he did... but the page he was writing to wasn't serious about the conversation."
Jil: "So Congressman Foley wasn't serious either?"
Mr. Strawman: "Well, Congressman Foley was serious, but the page he was writing to was pulling a prank on the Congressman by responding to him."
Jil: "Oh. So we should just forget the whole thing because even though Mark Foley wrote sexy stuff to a 16-year-old, and was serious about what he said, the page who he was writing to thought the Congressman was an idiot, right?"
Mr. Strawman: "Yup."
Hmm... Next time I'm trolling for 8-year-olds on the internet and wind up talking to a FBI agent who is pulling a prank on me and thinks I'm an idiot, I'll remember to keep that in mind. Err... That came out wrong.
Well, I'll repeat it again and again: Nobody cares about the sex. Everybody knows what Congressman Foley was doing was "legal" in the... uh... legal sense of the word. What we are all thinking about here is rank hypocrisy, and abuses of power. What we are thinking about is the fact that the "social values party" blatently put political benefit over those social values when they were told that pages' parents were complaining about Foley and chose not to investigate... in order to avoid a political black eye.
Seriously: As far as I am concerned, the most awesome thing any 54-year-old person on earth can have happen is getting a 16-year-old person who is willing to have sex with them. The problem is not in getting it. The problem is not in trying to get it. The problem is not in talking about getting it. The problem is not in dreaming about getting it. The problem is telling everyone else how evil and bad getting it is, telling everybody else that getting it is a sin or a crime, before going out and getting it for yourself.
What's most funny is that this is really the first time the Republicans have had a scandal that is so clearcut... so easy for even the dumbest American to grasp... that there is simply no room to squeeze in any hypocrisy without getting caught, and the Republicans couldn't stop themselves from stuffing it in there anyway... and I mean just assloads of it:
Blame the page? Blame Clinton? Blame Democrats? Blame the media? Blame gay people? Jesus guys. What are you thinking?
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Hello Jil,
Very good article!
Want to better understand some of the desperation among Christian politicos? Follow the links and read about who I am and what I have to say. Notice that my last name is Page? Think this "page" scandal is a mere coincidence? The timing and ramifications are much worse than most realize yet.
If Christian political leaders are going to go around attacking others for not living up to their professed values, it's a damn good idea to be truthful and actually walk the walk. Logs and motes in the eye, camels through the eye of a needle, glass houses, kettles and pots, and what goes around comes around, et al. Karma's a bitch when She finally decides enough is enough! This wouldn't have been so bad on Republicans if they hadn't been such arrogant hypocrites in order to corner the so-called values voters! Now the Two Candlesticks and Two Witnesses (Truth and Justice) are "breathing fire" and "raining hailstones!"
Christian Political Leadership, Hypocrisy, Duplicity, and Purposeful Evil
The current scandal involving Congressman Foley is merely the latest in an amazingly long list of blatant deception and duplicity by Republicans and the Christian Right in recent years. While bedeviling us all with their holier-than-thou pretenses, they consistently support and/or perform blatant greed and abominable evil. Never forget the extent of their arrogance over the last two decades and especially the last 6 years. It is beyond amazing that Christians continue to blindly support such obviously blatant scoundrels, even as they are repeatedly exposed going against the most basic of human values. The level of hypocrisy and duplicity boggles the mind. There is no longer any doubt, whatsoever, that Christianity is little more than a purposeful deception used by political and religious leaders to dupe, manipulate, and coerce entire populations into giving them wealth and power, which they always use for greed, injustice, and abominable evils.
The actions of Foley and those who covered up for him directly parallel the actions of scores of priests that have raped innocent children, preyed upon others for centuries, and had their actions hidden and abetted by the Vatican. Now, in eerie repetition of Vatican history, we have a power hungry Christian Emperor (GW) working closely with the Vatican and Judeo-Christian aristocrats to lead crusades in the so-called Holy Land. Furthermore, to leave little doubt about the reality of this assessment, the USA, as the new Holy Roman Empire, is about to legalize the torture it has perpetrated in recent years while steadily reversing many of the democratic and civil freedoms that people gained when the Vatican and royalty lost control of their European empire at the turn of the nineteenth century. Now we see them following the same old path of evil as they strive to cement the status of the USA as the latest proxy Vatican empire. Make no mistake about it, the new dark ages are looming on the horizon unless we do something proactive to prevent it.
Remember that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it!
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Peace...
Thanks for the Comment, Mr. Page!
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