The same old song
The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner
10/09/06
Throughout the Bush era, voters have not always connected the dots. The Foley scandal now enveloping the House Republican leadership offers a belated opportunity for voters to make some connections. Yes, the scandal is about the disgrace of a congressman sending disgusting messages to teenage pages, and the failure of leaders to act on escalating warnings. But it is so much more. Mark Foley was chairman of a House caucus on missing and exploited children. This was a party that literally put a pedophile in charge of pedophilia. Does that have a vaguely familiar ring? It should. It's the same party that put the oil companies in charge of energy policy, and invited the drug and insurance industries to write the Medicare prescription bill for their own maximum profit. ... So there is a consistent theme here of the fox guarding the chicken coop...
http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=12087
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Foley
by Robert Kuttner
10/09/06
Throughout the Bush era, voters have not always connected the dots. The Foley scandal now enveloping the House Republican leadership offers a belated opportunity for voters to make some connections. Yes, the scandal is about the disgrace of a congressman sending disgusting messages to teenage pages, and the failure of leaders to act on escalating warnings. But it is so much more. Mark Foley was chairman of a House caucus on missing and exploited children. This was a party that literally put a pedophile in charge of pedophilia. Does that have a vaguely familiar ring? It should. It's the same party that put the oil companies in charge of energy policy, and invited the drug and insurance industries to write the Medicare prescription bill for their own maximum profit. ... So there is a consistent theme here of the fox guarding the chicken coop...
http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=12087
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Foley
rudkla - 10. Okt, 16:15
