So for a party that crusades against gay marriage and welcomes voters that consider homosexuality a sin or a disease, headlines about a gay Republican congressman lusting after underage male congressional pages are a problem.- Eugene Robinson
Oedipus Moment:
Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media, a conservative watchdog, thundered on the group’s Web site yesterday that “House leaders permitted homosexuals to infiltrate and manipulate the party apparatus while they publicly postured as friends of family values and traditional marriage. The facade is now in ruins.”
Getting drunk and trolling for young boys ain’t all about traditional marriage or Dan Quayle’s values. That’s for sure. But nobody in the GOP leadership seems to have cared. Especially not Rep. Jim Kolbe, who was told six years ago, and didn’t address Foley’s perversion at all. Or maybe he did. Who knows?
There’s a lot of finger-pointing. Hastert is threatening to fire members of his staff. He shouldn’t do that. Look what happened to Tom Reynolds when he fired his staffer. Goodbye Tom.
For that matter, why is Andy Card giving Bob Woodward nasty information about George Dubya? The last thing this administration needs is Bob Woodward hawking a book about how clueless they are right now.
In any case, the press isn’t buying what the Republicans are selling and the President is pissed off.
