By Mary Lyon, From The Left -- World News Trust
They’re essential to every film project. They’re called the “Foley Artists.” These are the people who add in all the little incidental sound effects to sweeten and enrich the mix -- they flesh out the sounds of crunching footsteps, all the punches and crashes and “oofs!” in fight scenes, everything from rustling leaves to squeaky doors and corks being pulled from bottles. And they’re making more and more noises on Capitol Hill. I am LOVING the work of these particular “Foley Artists” with their own “Oscar night” a mere month away.
Let’s consider the hapless now-EX-Congressman Mark Foley, and the most delicious helping of crow he’s now served to his party as well as to himself. He prided himself on protecting kids from dirty old men. Foley loved making the most of his chairmanship of the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus, and ironically, trumpeting his bill to protect children from exploitation by grown-ups over the internet. His abrupt resignation under an icky cloud of suspicion and an R-rated script filled with nasty, salacious, and highly inappropriate IMs to underage boys has left both him and his party in a serious mess, at a time when they don’t need any more messes. Matthew Loraditch, who chairs the House Page Alumni Association, has already said that many of the pages knew about Foley for years – as far back as 2001 in some cases. There were already whispers galore about him and his “interest” in these young men, and how he really laid it on thick AFTER they’d concluded their tours of duty as congressional gofers and were presumably safely (for him, anyway) off the reservation. I understand Michael Jackson’s defense team may be available, Mr. Foley…
The added loveliness comes from the likes of GOP chieftains Dennis Hastert; John Boehner; Tom Reynolds, chairman of the House republi-CON campaign machine; John Shimkus, who heads the Page Board; and very likely quite a few other friends of theirs -- all of whom evidently knew more formally what was up, as early as last November, and did nothing about it. Majority Leader Boehner did, however, take care to phone the Washington Post more than once to change his story about what he did or didn’t tell Speaker Hastert.
I imagine that Dennis the Cover-Up Menace’s sphincter’s already tightened considerably. He has to face questions about what he knew and when he knew it, and why he tried to sweep it under the rug, but that’s not where it stops. He doesn’t get the full benefit of the Congressional recess, either. Hastert’s been forced to hustle back to Washington to oversee a probe into this scandal instead of hovering around his home district and sweet-talking the voters into renewing his own lease. If he’d ever bothered to think with his head instead of out his backside about this, he would have rightfully launched such an investigation late last year, if for no other reason than to get it over with quickly for the sake of the election THIS November that he may no longer be able to salvage. It’s always better to try to get out in front of some unwanted headlines, instead of scrambling to react to them afterwards. You’re slipping, dear Dennis, but then again, with everything you have to cover up anyway, besides all those nasty matters involving the White House and the Pentagon, I’m not surprised that this one got lost.
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