"God Don't Like Ugly"

[CatWoman]

It's turned very ugly inside the moralistic Republicans' glass house

Betty Bayé

"God don't like ugly," my mother often said, even to members of her own household who, after appearing to get away with murder, ended up being trapped by their own lies and messes. My mom's words come to mind as I watch the latest political theater, in which powerful Republicans and their usual media apologists are struggling to paint lipstick on the pig that the Mark Foley/Dennis Hastert scandal has quickly become.

Foley, as everybody now knows, sent sexually tinged e-mails to underage males working as pages on Capitol Hill, including inviting some out for ice cream. He resigned after ABC broke news of the e-mails.

As for Hastert, many now are calling on him to step down as speaker of the House because, though he'd been alerted about Foley some time ago, he failed to act. Apparently, that's because it was more important to him that Republicans hold onto the House majority than that teenagers were protected.

You'd think Republicans would have rushed to kick the bum out, seeing as how the GOP has claimed the mantle of being the party of God and family values.

Also repugnant about this scandal is the not-so-sly attempt by certain Republicans to have it both ways. They imply that Foley's interest in young boys is because Foley is gay, as if just as night follows day, gay men prey on children.

Thus, Republicans couldn't have moved on Foley earlier because they would have been accused of gay-bashing, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said with a straight face.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061005/COLUMNISTS09/610050360

[JuniperLea]

1. There's no excuse for turning a blind eye to child abuse

Foley is a sick man. And anyone who defends his actions is equally sick. Anyone who makes up excuses for him is sick. Anyone who turns a blind eye to child abuse, for whatever reason, is sick.

Time to quarantine the sickos to save the rest

[Drifter]

2. Dumb all over ... a little ugly on the side ...

God made us in his image
So if we're dumb, then god is dumb
and maybe even a little ugly on the side.


-Frank Zappa

[LeftCoast]

3. I think this is such a big scandal because it hits at the heart of

republican hypocrisy. Spells it out in terms so simple that even a Faux News viewer can understand it.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

4. Then why did (S)He make so much OF it?

[tomreedtoon]

5. God don't like Ugly...Betty.

Worst concept and execution of a sitcom since "My Mother the Car."