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The former Clerk of the House reportedly testified to the House Ethics Committee that the Chief Counsel and floor manager for Speaker Hastert was aware of problems going well beyond Foley.
Archive for the ‘Foley follies’ Category
October 8th, 2006
Category: Foley follies
Urging two Republican leaders to start singing from the same hymn-book: OK.
Urging them to “get on the same page”: not so much.
October 6th, 2006
Category: Foley follies
Shorter Denny Hastert: I accept complete responsibility, but no blame. I’m deeply sorry, but I didn’t do anything wrong. The buck stops here, but it isn’t my fault.
October 5th, 2006
Category: Foley follies
A massive “outing” campaign by gay Democrats is a fantasy. A purge of gay staffers by panicked Republicans isn’t.
October 5th, 2006
Category: Foley follies, Moral philosophy
Does David Brooks really think that letting your colleagues molest other people’s children is merely a question of “management,” somehow divorced from “morality”?
October 5th, 2006
Category: Campaign 2006, Foley follies
Harold Ford to Republicans:
“I’m not going to take a lecture on morality from a party that took hush money from a child predator.”
October 5th, 2006
Category: Foley follies, Politics and Leadership
As it seems to be unfolding, the Republican response to the very awkward Foley/page situation is following a familiar script, perfected as I recall by Ronald Reagan, that should be clearly parsed, the better to deplore its cowardice and real evil:
(1) Search up the hierarchy of command until you reach the level at which [...]
October 3rd, 2006
Category: Foley follies
“If this evidence was withheld for political purposes, one can only speculate as to how many additional children may have been endangered before this information was finally revealed.”
This from John Boehner, defending Hastert by trying to float the idea that Foleygate is some sort of Democratic trick. But doesn’t that missile change course and [...]
