CNN: Foley EXCHANGED "sexually questionable" messages

[Bluebear]

So THIS is the issue that the GOP-led Congress of the last dozen or so years has selected to leave us with.

Anhow, Blitzer's show just reported that Foley EXCHANGED "sexually questionable" messages with pages. The word 'exchange' to me seems carefully chosen; it places "half the blame" on the young men who participated in the message/conversations. Also, now the messages have morphed into only "questionable".

From what I recall, nothing much was left to "question". (BO, DUDE! Cute butt bouncing in the air!/Do you do it in a towel?/Is your little guy limp or growing?/ I am as hard as a rock!/ Take out a ruler and measure it for me! etc.) Yeah, CNN, very "questionable".

[Janice325]

1. Perhaps they're hoping that folks will forget about the "Foley scandal."

I have news for the GOP-we won't forget, dammit!

[Sapere aude]

2. Since the pages were under 18 it doesn't matter if it was an exchange.

Foley was an adult, the pages were kids. Foley was wrong for instigating these messages with kids.

[Ignacio Upton]

3. Depends on the age of consent

In D.C. it's 16...although I don't know if any of his IMs and emails were interstate and if he can be prosecuted for that.

[soothsayer]

7. internet seduction requires 21 y.o. according to foleys own bill i

thought

[KansDem]

4. I can't help but think that if I'd done this, I'd be typing this message from prison (eom)

[Catherine Vincent]

5. Another sex scandal excapes the Bush administration

Jeff Gannon and Mark Foley.

[Fovea]

6. That's because this was the grownup admin

real. grownup. perverts.

[Stephanie]

8. If those pages were GIRLS, there would be no question

there's your double-standard.