Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Bush supports Hastert in Foley scandal

Speaker Hastert has known now for over a year that Foley was engaging in inappropriate relations with an undergade boy, but chose to keep it a secret in order to save his political party. And Bush supports him?

Essentially, Bush supports a person who protected pedophilia.

The Washington Times, a newspaper with a consistently conservative editorial page, called for Hastert's resignation Tuesday, saying he was either grossly negligent "or he deliberately looked the other way in hopes that a brewing scandal would simply blow away."

Conservative activist Richard A. Viguerie kept up the drumbeat from the right, calling for Hastert to step down. "The fact that they just walked away from this, it sounds like they were trying to protect one of their own members rather than these young boys," Viguerie said on Fox News' "Studio B."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15113942/?GT1=8618

Should Dennis Hastert resign?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15115971/

"Can I have a good kiss goodnight," Foley was said to have messaged in one. A boy responded with cyber symbols and "

In another message, Foley invited the teenager to his Capitol Hill town house "for a few drinks" even though he knew the boy was under the legal drinking age. "we may need to drink at my house so we dont get busted," Foley messaged.