Moonie Times slams Hastert and Repukes again - for (lack of) integrity!

[jefferson_dem]

Long-time Repuke apologist Blankley displays a little princple -->

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In this case, defending Denny Hastert's decisions is ethically wrong, would undermine our party's commitment to the defense of traditional moral values and is politically stupid in the bargain.

I have known Denny for almost two decades. He is an exceedingly decent man and a hard worker for conservative Republican values and politics. But we cannot deny the fact that he had a sustained lapse of good judgment. The fact that he reportedly has been quite ill for some time may be an explanation — but not an excuse.

Forget the later hideous text messages. When the speaker was told that Mark Foley had sent that first e-mail — the "overly friendly" one that we all saw last Friday — he had to be either obtuse or on notice of the problem. Any father of a young man who saw such an e-mail sent to his son would rightly be disposed to immediately punch out Mr. Foley and warn him to keep away from his son, and then he would call the police. It was common knowledge that Mr. Foley was gay. If he had been straight and asked for a 16-year-old girl's photo, any sensible person would have concluded the same thing.

But the fact that, according to my best sources in the House Republicans, Mr. Hastert never informed any Democrats of the matter (even on the page oversight board), unambiguously suggests that he knew what was up. Thus began the cover-up. Of course he knew what the Democrats would do with the information. But not only is this not a Democratic Party dirty trick (the facts are real, not made up), but Mr. Hastert had a moral duty to do all in his power to make sure there would not be more victims of Mr. Foley's alleged sexual predation — or clear potential for such.

http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20061003-084828-8511r.htm

[Toots]

1. Even a broken clock is right every once in a while..

:shrug: And he is right in this instance...Now they want to launch an investigation, not when they were first notified. Now when it is already known and Foley has left the building they want to make a show of investigating. For the Republican Party it is all about show and absolutely nothing about substance...

[grizmaster]

2. When the Moonie Times bails on the GOP you know it's all over

and about bloody time too

[sam sarrha]

3. the point is that you are not an "Incredibly decent man" if you protect

Pedifiles... no matter what you do other than that..

Rush, O'lily, Tweety and all the other corporate Whores who lie and spinn GOP Shit into gold all stand up for each each other and say ..but they are really nice guys off stage, they are 'Incredibly decent"..

THEY ARE NOT.. they are Whores.. they are despicable and evil, they know they are lying and they dont care who it hurts as long as they make a LOT of money. i dont care if they have families and are good fathers or mothers. you are what you do.

[TornadoTN]

4. Not really surprising, based on trends as of late

According to the last issue of THE NATION, the Wash. Times is having a fight between moderates and neoconservative for who has the most control in the newsroom and editorial staff.

Look at that article by Max Blumenthal here:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061009/washington_times">Article

They are starting to turn into a circular firing squad across the entire Republican party. It's only a matter of time before the "real" Republicans try to take their party back from the Neocons.

[sadiesworld]

5. That's all well and good...

but I hope this isn't turning into an inter-party dispute ONLY. The press is already describing this as an issue only evangelicals care about--as if the rest of us don't give a shit about predators prowling the page program. Then they have the Washington Times and Christian conservative groups going after the republican leadership while Limbaugh and Hannity defend them (again, as if the rest of us don't have a dog in this fight).

I'm starting to think by next week the republicans will have resolved these issues, punished the appropriate parties, and moved on (with the blessing of the media, of course).