Let's stop and ask if this really ranks in the same category as something like what happened at Abu Ghraib, or is it more along the lines of a Monika Lewinsky? Yes, Foley is a perverted man who likes young men. Yes, he did very improper things and it sounds like a number of people within the Republican ranks had at least some idea of what he was up to and should have blown the whistle a long time ago.
Looking at the facts (if you can even know for sure what's true and what isn't in this debacle) it does appear that wrong-doings occurred. Sure. But considering the fact that so many other horrific events happen every day in the US, how can the general populace focus so much on this one thing? Both political parties don't really represent the average middle-income family's interests any more, do they? Why do you care so much what these idiots are up to?
I'd be putting so many other things so much higher on my list of 'things to be pissed off about' - such as child maltreatment and hunger, the lack of public health care, the state of the education system. I think both parties know that if they dupe the public into focusing on something like Mark Foley's sexual proclivities and the scandal of a cover up, they won't have to answer the tough questions about why so many other serious issues aren't being addressed.
Maybe I'm way off the mark since I don't live in your country, but if I did, I wouldn't be falling for the 'look over here' tactics currently taking place.
Let's stop and ask if this really ranks in the same category as something like what happened at Abu Ghraib, or is it more along the lines of a Monika Lewinsky? Yes, Foley is a perverted man who likes young men. Yes, he did very improper things and it sounds like a number of people within the Republican ranks had at least some idea of what he was up to and should have blown the whistle a long time ago.
Looking at the facts (if you can even know for sure what's true and what isn't in this debacle) it does appear that wrong-doings occurred. Sure. But considering the fact that so many other horrific events happen every day in the US, how can the general populace focus so much on this one thing? Both political parties don't really represent the average middle-income family's interests any more, do they? Why do you care so much what these idiots are up to?
I'd be putting so many other things so much higher on my list of 'things to be pissed off about' - such as child maltreatment and hunger, the lack of public health care, the state of the education system. I think both parties know that if they dupe the public into focusing on something like Mark Foley's sexual proclivities and the scandal of a cover up, they won't have to answer the tough questions about why so many other serious issues aren't being addressed.
Maybe I'm way off the mark since I don't live in your country, but if I did, I wouldn't be falling for the 'look over here' tactics currently taking place.