Comments on: Panel Witness: Foley A 'Ticking Time Bomb'

House Ethics Committee Concludes GOP Leaders Were Negligent But No Rules Were Broken

[patriotic9]

ncolsens
That's the best advise I heard.That will definately work.Just like Michael Jackson,can any Arab country accept FOLEY as their ROYAL GUEST too?We can actually trade in FOLEY and other CHILD MOLESTING PREISTS with OIL.How about this OIL for CHILD MOLESTER PROGRAMME.

[lestb35]

'A Ticking Time Bomb', what drama queen said that?

[rharrin1]

Didn't break any rules.
THEN THEY NEED A NEW SET OF F*CKING RULES.

[rharrin1]

With Studds he didn't have half the senate covering up for him.

[pakaal]

Just a few things. First, rule 23 of the House rules of ethics says "A member ...officer or employee of the House shall conduct himself at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House." How is it that House leaders' ignoring Foley's conduct is not actionable under Rule 23? Ignoring this behavior hardly reflected creditably on the House, as the November elections show.

Second, isn't it interesting that the 109th Congress Republican leaders tried to weaken ethics rules just a year or so ago? Maybe they were anticipating some... problems?

Third, and most important, isn't it interesting that some folks on this message board, when commenting on Foley's behavior, respond not with condemnation, but by bringing out 30 year old stories about Gary Studds (who was censured by Congress as I recall). If the behavior of the person in charge is inappropriate, regardless of the political party. This time it happens to be a Republican problem. Deal with it.

Hey Foley I hear tell there are a lot of little boys with "big guns" waiting for you in Iraq, I'm sure they would love to spend a night with you....the big guns they have may not be the ones that you like to play with though.......

[firststate]

janem4 following your logic Foley had every right to attempt to seduce children because a democrat had done the same thing. Should an independent take the baton (or whatever) in hand to continue the disgusting tradition next? Trying to divert attention from one pervert's conduct by bringing up another's is almost as disgusting as theirs.

Do you happen to remember whether it was Studds or Foley who chaired a Subcommittee with the alleged purpose of protecting children from sexual and other preditors? When he visited victims of abuse was it just a shopping trip? Can you deny the hypocrisy of his never missing a photo-op or interview to talk about the dangers posed to children by molesters (like himself,) while plotting to get in some kid's pants himself? Neither party has a stranglehold on either corrupt degenerates or those who would make excuses for them.

[patriotic9]

Good job FOLEY.You the man.You are the true representative of the CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS PSYCHOTIC CLUB.Bush must be proud of you.You are not as good as BUSH though.You have just hurt few boys,Bush's PSYCHOSIS has hurt the whole United States.When OSAMA BEEN FORGOTTEN was in TORA BORA,Bush helped him to escape by not sending enough troops as he had to save troops for Iraq invasion to help the second coming of CHRIST.Jesus didn't return by his PSYCHOSIS but ISLAMIC RADICALS became so powerful like they were never before.
People need to understand that CHRISTIANITY itself is PSYCHOSIS as we see every day by BOY'S MOLESTING PREISTS,FOLEY,BUSH,etc.Christianity means no use of COMMON SENSE at all and reasoning malfunction of brain.Can a normal person believes that those people who love JESUS and believe in his mother's virginity are not CHOSEN by GOD because they are born in a RACE or FAMILY chosen by GOD whereas those who deny JESUS as a MESSIAH and DENY his MOTHER'S VIRGINTY are chosen by GOD not because of any great action but because of being born in a RACE chosen by GOD.The purpsoe of the creation of GOD-NEGLECTED people is to SERVE and give all the sacrifices for the GOD-CHOSEN people.It doesn't matter if people impose their psychosis on themselves but when they bring it into politics,the results are what we seeing right now.

[firststate]

bushballs1 is entitled to toss in his 2 cents worth, overpriced as it is at that rate.

Honors among the posts to date have to go to
nathanealy who simultaneously defends a would-be pedophile and blame that defense on a fear of the accusation of homophobia. Trolling for teens isn't gay it's attempted child molestation. The fact that Foley isn't a very successful pedophile doesn't detract from his hypocrisy as a self-proclaimed child advocate.

The "report" proves that the republican leadership and their staffs got where they were by knowing where the bodies were buried and reminded the Subcommittee of that knowledge.

[roach9703]

What you have here is simply abject moral failure. The house of representatives has shown itself to be a self absorbed, irresponsible in caring for the welfare of others, the pages, and Republican Party a morally bankrupt institution. The institutional corruption in the executive and legislative branches is without precedent in American History.
At least the Democrats are more honest about what they believe which is not to say much.