Repubs Dig Deep to Shift Blame
Today on the Sunday talk show circuit, GOP pundit after pundit brought up an old page scandal involving Gerry Studds. Studds was a Democratic congressman from Mass. who served from 1973 to 1997.
In 1983, the Democratic-controlled congress censured Gerry Studds because he had sex with a male page in 1973 (ten years earlier). At the time of the encounter, Studds was 36, the page was 17.
So today, as the Repubs travel essentially 33 years back in time to point to a Democrat/page sex scandal, they fail to mention this:
The same year, 1983, REPUBLICAN congressman Dan Crane (Ill.) was also censured for having had sex with a female page in 1980 (three years earlier). At the time of the encounter, Crane was 44, the page was 17.
Once Repubs admit that their party, just like the Dems, is simply a microcosm of society, they will be able to confront the real issues that affect everyone and stop trying to pass themselves off as the party of righteous morals and family values.
Oh, I forgot. That would take integrity and a conscious.
Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints
So that's what they've been up to
Didn't really watch any in-depth news coverage over the last week or so. So now their tactic is to "mistakenly" identify dirty Repubs as Democrats. And of course, there will always be a few uninformed souls who will run with it.
Apparently there are no depths too low for this conservative bunch. Well, I guess they have a good teacher who is a squatter at 1600 Penn. Ave.
squatter, n., one who settles on a piece of land without legal claim to it in order to acquire title to it
Flying by the seat of my rants...
I've been waiting for
for an avalanche-movement in the blogosphere - if not the media - to jump on these stories. Am kind of sad no one has.
Digging even deeper
Yesterday, Christopher Shays (R-CT) invoked the 1969 Chappaquidick incident involving Ted Kennedy with the following statements:
I know the speaker didn't go over a bridge and leave a young person in the water, and then have a press conference the next day. ...Dennis Hastert didn't kill anybody.
This invoking of a 37-year old incident is the GOP's best defense against Mark Foley's defiant, disgusting behavior toward minor boys which included drunken trips to the page's dorm?
I thought, "What, Clinton didn't make Foley do it?
And though I shudder when I do it, I read a conservative's paper take on the GOP's problems. The article that refers to Foley's behavior as "inappropriate" can be found here. It actually seems like an article that Bush may have wrote, it's so disjointed and full-of-holes!
Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints
Rethugs lied about Crane
Rethugs didn't forget about Crane, they just called him a Democrat when the story about him first came out.