The End of a Revolution Every revolution begins with the power of an idea and ends when clinging to power is the only idea left. The epitaph for the movement that started when Newt Gingrich and his forces rose from the back bench of the House chamber in 1994 may well have been written last […]
N. Korea Claims Nuclear Test North Korea Says Nuclear Test Successful North Korea conducts nuclear test Nuclear test sparks international condemnation Unfortunately, our government is not in a position to respond competently to North Korea’s provocation. We expect that Mr. "Axis of Evil," George W. Bush, to come out with sabers drawn, and it will […]
Lawmaker Saw Foley Messages in 2000 A Republican congressman knew of disgraced former representative Mark Foley’s inappropriate Internet exchanges as far back as 2000 and personally confronted Foley about his communications. A spokeswoman for Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) confirmed yesterday that a former page showed the congressman Internet messages that had made the youth feel […]
Everybody says it the same way, with quotation marks. Representative Tom Reynolds [R-New York] cancelled his appearance on the Sunday Talking head show because he had "flu-like symptoms." I guess there’s a general consensus that the fact that the Republican story line about Foley isn’t exactly flying and Reynolds is plummeting in the polls [down […]
Second Source Tells ABC of Earlier Role by Hastert’s Office ABC’s John Yang reports: A current House staffer has told ABC News that Scott Palmer, House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s (R-IL) chief of staff, met with disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) to discuss the time and attention he was giving House pages many months before […]
Ex-Page Tells of Foley Liaison A former House page says he had sex with then-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) after receiving explicit e-mails in which the congressman described assessing the sexual orientation and physical attributes of underage pages but waiting until later to make direct advances. The former page, who agreed to discuss his relationship with […]
Bush Balks at Criteria for FEMA Director: Signing Statement Asserts Right to Ignore Parts of New Homeland Security Law President Bush reserved the right to ignore key changes in Congress’s overhaul of the Federal Emergency Management Agency — including a requirement to appoint someone with experience handling disasters as the agency’s head — in setting […]
In fact, the Foley scandal should be about getting this rotten apple out of the barrel and protecting the Pages, kids who go to Washington for something more than this man has given them. But the scandal is much more important than that. It is a paradigm of the Republican stronghold on our government. First, […]
The Cast of Characters Mark Foley: A six term Congressman representing West Palm Beach Florida. He is a closeted gay man who has apparently operated as a sexual predator, hitting on the Congressional Pages, probably the whole time he’s been in office. He resigned last week when threatened with public exposure of his explicit sexual […]
Not much mentioned by the political blogs, an Amish community in Pennsylvania was invaded by a disturbed man who senslessly executed school children, then himself. Amish schoolgirl hoped to spare others Two of the survivors of the shooting told their parents that 13-year-old Marian Fisher, one of the slain girls, asked to be shot first, […]