Excuses to date - re: Foley's Folly

[radfringe]

Excuses to date:
-- GOP Leadership didn't know
-- It's the Democrats Fault
-- Democrats did it too (i.e. had sex scandals)
-- E-mail and Instant Messages were just "naughty"
-- Foley had a drinking problem
-- Foley was abused

Did I miss any?

Meanwhile....I'm waiting for the spin that revealing Foley's activities has emboldened the enemy

[Fridays Child]

1. The pages are beasts (Drudge).

[Dr Fate]

2. Bill Clinton (D) himself paged those boys. n/t

n/t

[walldude]

3. Yeah...

His mommy dressed him funny
She made him eat his spinach
He had to go to bed at 8:30
He walked in on his mom and dad having sex
It's the Democrats fault

[Dr Fate]

4. Lead paint. He ate led paint.

And,someone dosed his milk w/ PCP in the 70's.

[POAS]

5. Foley is really a Democrat n/t

[Hav]

11. Fox: Did Dems ignore the emails to preserve Foley's (D) seat?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2314787

[tenshi816]

6. Let's see...

--The boys were beasts. (Drudge)

--The age of consent is 16 in Washington.

--Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton

The Republicans are circling the wagons and starting to parrot each other now, while at the same time looking for people the party is willing to sacrifice to get this mess to go away.

[BR_Parkway]

7. And OxyRush claiming that it was all a setup - entrapment is a big

thing in Repug circles you know (they have so much to fear getting caught with I guess)

[cleveramerican]

8. I didn't do anything and it'll never happen again.

[radfringe]

9. how about

"...no one forsaw____"

"...no one imagined____"

"...no one anticipated____"

"...No one from the Clinton administration left a plan...."

[Binka]

10. At Least He Never Asked Him To Measure His Dick...

Oh shit..ok at least he never asked him what he was wearing...ah fuck it...at least he never asked him if he was hard/horny...eek crap...

CLUE PHONE TO THE GOP.....YOU MOTHERFUCKERS ARE FUCKED.

[POAS]

12. That's the same arguement Condi used

about a disputed 2001 meeting: "I don't remember having that meeting but I know that Bin Laden wasn't discussed."

[TorchTheWitch]

14. hahaha!

Good one! :rofl: That really made me chuckle (and wake the dog up... oops).

[TorchTheWitch]

13. He's gay

That's been the big one lately and appears to be the one they're going to run with because not only is it a nice distraction but it fits in perfectly with their anti-gay agenda.

Of course, it also ignores the BLATANT fact that this excuse doesn't explain why far more straight men sexually harass teenaged girls.

And unfortunately, the response to it from a lot of people right here at DU is the Reverse Anti-Gay Excuse (he did it because society made him suppress his gayness, so the only sex outlet he had was minors he had power over).

And of course, just like the Anti-Gay Excuse, this is just as untrue and also ignores the BLATANT fact that this excuse doesn't explain why far more straight men sexually harass teenaged girls... we know it's not all those closeted straight men acting out on minors because society makes them supress they're straightness.

And what is more unfortunate about the Reverse Anti-Gay Excuse is that it feeds right into the GOP's hands by making the argument about the fact that he's gay (which has nothing to do with it) thereby taking the REAL argument off the table... just what Rove was hoping for.

[radfringe]

15. update: hastert it now blaming the media n/t

[radfringe]

16. and just where does the buck stop?

Excuses and blame to date:
-- GOP Leadership didn't know
-- It's the Democrats Fault
-- Democrats did it too (i.e. had sex scandals)
-- E-mail and Instant Messages were just "naughty"
-- Foley had a drinking problem
-- Foley was abused
-- Clinton's Fault
-- Richard Morris (Clinton advisor)
-- George Soros
-- CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington)
-- ABC News

[Raine]

17. It's all Soro's

fault. :eyes:

[radfringe]

18. JC Watts blames it on culture of washington/congress

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/05/sitroom.01.html

WATTS: You know, Wolf, I think there's a deeper question here, Wolf. What is it about the culture of Congress that we would have about five or six members over the last year, Republican and Democrat, member on Appropriations sending money back home to, you know -- for self-interest, a leader in the Republican leadership having to resign because of this network of deceit -- deceit -- and trying to gain power, and, you know, two members just in the last three weeks resign. They're checking into alcoholics -- a rehabilitation facility.

What is in the culture of Washington that would -- that we would find these kind of things? And I think there's a much deeper question here than this Mark Foley thing, as bad as it is.

[sandnsea]

19. Washington is a den of evil

Leading both Democrats and Republicans astray. It's troubling.

Latest excuse by JC Watts.

:eyes: