Rep. Jim Kolbe (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz., confronted then-Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record) about his Internet communications with teenagers as early as 2000, according to a newspaper report.
This kid was what 14 or 1
The Washington Post reported Sunday night that a former page showed Kolbe some Internet messages from Foley that had made the page uncomfortable. Kolbe's press secretary, Korenna Cline, told the Post that a Kolbe staff member advised the page last week to discuss the matter with the clerk of the House.
Cline denied the messages were sexually explicit, telling the Post only that they had made the former page uncomfortable. She said "corrective action" was taken, although she did not know whether that went beyond Kolbe's confrontation with Foley.
Rank-and-file Republicans, meanwhile, sought to mount a public defense of Speaker Dennis Hastert over the scandal, which is threatening their congressional control one month before the elections.
2006-10-08 16:41:34 · 6 answers · asked by cantcu 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Not only is this question false and misleading, it is loaded with unproven speculation and unsubstantiated rumours!
2006-10-08 16:44:48 · answer #1 · answered by Masterwooten 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
"false and misleading"? this person took this text straight from yahoo news... so maybe you think that's false and misleading but don't blame the people for what the news organizations say if you don't agree with them, do your own investigation and prove them wrong.
This is like the Eagleton Affair. As Hunter Thompson put it, all the journalists and colleagues of Eagleton knew he was a dangerous drunk and at least a little bit crazy, but the media (as he put it, and including, it seems in this case, interparty colleagues) have an on-the-clock rivals and after-work drinking buddy relationship with the people in the government, and tend to ignore what they think of as "minor infractions", but when a minor infraction suddenly becomes major, nobody knows how to handle it. I think it's kind of like that here. The Republicans who knew about this guy told him to knock it off, and hoped to keep it quiet... but when Clinton had consensual sex they made a huge deal out of it, started a congressional investigation, had him testify and tried to impeach him when he lied. Now they are not only revealed as hypocrits in that we now know that only their opponents' sex lives matter, and that on their own side soliciting sex from minors is permissable, but that lying under oath is not a crime on their side either... note that they haven't said anything about Rice lying about terrorism meetings with the Clinton antiterrorism people under oath before the 9/11 Commission.
For those who are my age, ie that wouldn't normally know who Eagleton was, he was vice-presidential candidate under George McGovern who was a dangerously incompetent drunkard and mental patient whose history of internment and shock therapy was leaked presumably by Nixon during the campaign to destroy McGovern's candidacy. McGovern was forced to pull him off the ticket, which didn't work well because younger voters thought it was unfair to Eagleton, because they didn't have access to classified medical records showing just how dangerously incompetent he was, the hippies thought they forced him off the ticket just for being a little weird. Then McGovern lost by a landslide in a race which was peculiar in that more people voted in local races than for President.
2006-10-08 23:58:03 · answer #2 · answered by Aleksandr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems obvious to me that the Republican members of congress are willing to do anything, even placing children at risk, to keep themselves in the majority and control of the Congress of the United States, the most powerful legislative body in the world.
2006-10-09 13:05:32 · answer #3 · answered by MAD AS HELL 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess the republicans are so stupid that they can be mislead over something so serious. But to them it wouldn't matter if he raped the page, they would want to help cover it up so there party can keep control of congress. That's the republicans saying, "whatever it takes". lmao
2006-10-08 23:52:02 · answer #4 · answered by big10inmidd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There will be an investigation an a lot will be brought to light.
2006-10-09 07:17:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is false and misleading.
2006-10-08 23:43:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋