The US House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct [official website] concluded Friday that although Republican leaders did not break any ethics rules [PDF report] in addressing the misconduct of disgraced ex-Congressman Mark Foley [Congressional profile], they nonetheless failed to protect young pages from inappropriate communications. Following an investigation [JURIST report], the panel found that House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) [official website] most likely received at least two emails detailing Foley’s abuses, but did not act on the claims for fear of creating scandal.
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Now for the “irony.” Pelosi and the rest of the mentally unbalanced left proclaimed that they would “clean up the culture of corruption in Washington” when they regained control of Congress. I guess that it depends on what your definition of “corruption” is. The Foley scandal was supposed to be prima facie evidnece that the GOP alone was “corrupt.” Yet we now know that the Democrats conveniently outed Foley a month before the election to politicize this relatively harmless incident of some sexually explicit instant messages with a former page in order to score political points. Don’t accuse them of engaging in the “politics of personal destruction” though. Only “homophobic” and bigoted conservatives engage in such demagoguery. I wonder if any Democrats will apologize to speaker Hastert whom they demanded resign?
I also wonder if Speaker Pelosi will hold hearings on whether recently re-elected Congressman William Jefferson used the $90,000 the FBI found in his freezer to fund his campaign? Perhaps. But I will bet that the elite media will ignore this one. Jefferson will get the same treatment Studds and Frank got. Come to think of it, a guy like Jefferson would be perfect to sit along with that other criminal Barney Frank on the ethics committee. Perhaps Alcee Hastings too! Yep, those Dems are well on their way to cleaning up that “culture of corruption.”
For more on the ethics of the left feel free to read, “Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild
by Michelle Malkin” a former guest on our show.