"Do I make you a little horny? Well strip down and get naked!"

[Rachm_Qoch]

Things get juicier… from here and here

BRIAN ROSS: A former senior Republican official in Congress says Foley was one of a handful of members and staff whose behavior with pages was being closely watched. So far, Foley is the only member whose overt sexual approaches have been documented. Charlie?

CHARLES GIBSON: The only one to be documented, but are there other shoes to drop?

ROSS: We’re hearing quite a bit from former pages. They’re sending us all sorts of messages about possible other members.

Any bets on who’s next? Barny Frank? Rick Santorum?

[EddyTeddyFreddy]

Barney Frank? Highly unlikely. He’s already been through the wringer once and he’s a smart, smart guy. Plus, as far as I know, he’s in a committed relationship with a long-term partner.

Santorum would be fun to watch implode but somehow I think not.

No, any other members caught up in this scandal are likely to be heartland types you’d never guess were page-turners.

[madmonk28]

I think there is a hope among Republicans that a Democrat is named as someone who had inappropriate contact with pages. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if they are trying to create this impression even without naming an actual Democrat.

Ben Stein said this scandal is the Democrats fault because the Democratic Party is the party of homosexuals and

a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys

Here’s a link.

I think the Republicans will try to do what they did with the Ambramoff scandal create enough of an impression that Democrats are involved that voters who aren’t paying enough attention see it as a bi-partisan scandal.

[RTFirefly]

@ElvisL1ves

The eleven “individuals” known so far to be participants in this purely nonpartisan coverup scandal:

And apparently not one of them thought of passing these emails on to the cops, or the local child protection agencies, or whatever.

DC may have no law requiring them to do so, but such laws are springing up all over because it’s what adults are supposed to do when they see other grownups cruising the playgrounds, or even the high schools, in search of sexual conquests.

[Orbifold]

@madmonk28

Ben Stein said this scandal is the Democrats fault because the Democratic Party is the party of homosexuals and…

…wow. Ben Stein is an asshole.

[jayjay]

@Orbifold

…wow. Ben Stein is an asshole.

He worked for Nixon. He’s got professional asshole training.

[Excalibre]

@Orbifold

…wow. Ben Stein is an asshole.

Yeah, I had no idea . . . he really has always struck me as fairly intelligent. I always find it surprising when smart people are bigots.

[black_rabbit]

How do the pages in the House of Representatives know it’s bedtime?

When the big hand’s on the little hand.

[Polycarp]

I’d just like to point out that this thread is on its fifth page, and will within a couple of posts move on to its sixth.

Mark Foley is envious!

[eleanorigby]

Jon Stewart was brilliant about this last night, as usual. To have Trent Lott on as a guest must have been sweet. He was fairly kind to the confuddled senator from Louisana (is Lott LA?). I came away thinking that Lott was more clueless (in a very bad( way than actively evil.

Keep the jokes coming-I’m loving 'em!
I’m sure there’s a Dem in there somewhere (if this thing gets bigger like it looks like it will). My fear is that if that occurs, then somehow all the media coverage will be on him, and not on the Reps. I sure hope that doesn’t happen, but Dems have never known how to control an argument (not in the past 15 years, anyway).

What did the congressman say to the page orientees?

Book end 'em!

[Trion]

Hey! I’m at the top of a new page!

[Rilchiam]

So work your way to the bottom…

[Trion]

Or on top of a new page. That’s how I should have put it.

Damn. Blew it.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@Trion

Or on top of a new page. That’s how I should have put it.

Damn. Blew it.

Maybe it’ll return the favor.
Daniel

[Loopydude]

I wish I had more time at the moment to contribute something substantive, but I’m blowing coffee out my nose with these page jokes. Sick bastards.

[eleanorigby]

@Loopydude

I wish I had more time at the moment to contribute something substantive, but I’m blowing coffee out my nose with these page jokes. Sick bastards.

I concede to being joke creating impaired. It is a joy to sit at the feet of masters. I can’t stop laughing this morning.

It doesn’t help that I am off to my very PT job soon-I’m a page.
A library page, folks. And I am waaaay overage.

[Count_Blucher]

[QUOTE=rjung]
I prefer “GOP = Glossing Over Pedophiles”

[QUOTE]

Good, but to me GOP = Gathering Of Pedophiles

[Cervaise]

@madmonk28

I think there is a hope among Republicans that a Democrat is named as someone who had inappropriate contact with pages.

I’d be enormously surprised if any halfway prominent Democrat is seriously implicated in this. Why? Simple. Republican leadership has been aware of, and actively covering up Foley’s misdeeds, for months now, if not years. If there were a Democrat in the mix, they would have learned about it by now, and they would have used that information to smear them months, if not years, ago. And even if for some unfathomable reason they hadn’t jumped on it the moment they were aware of it, it would have taken them about half a nanosecond to release the name or names on the heels of the current revelations.

That, to me, is the single biggest argument in support of this being a purely partisan scandal: If Foley had been a Democrat, the Republicans would have been strutting and crowing about it from every rooftop.

[tagos]

@Cervaise

I’d be enormously surprised if any halfway prominent Democrat is seriously implicated in this. Why? Simple. Republican leadership has been aware of, and actively covering up Foley’s misdeeds, for months now, if not years. If there were a Democrat in the mix, they would have learned about it by now, and they would have used that information to smear them months, if not years, ago. And even if for some unfathomable reason they hadn’t jumped on it the moment they were aware of it, it would have taken them about half a nanosecond to release the name or names on the heels of the current revelations.

That, to me, is the single biggest argument in support of this being a purely partisan scandal: If Foley had been a Democrat, the Republicans would have been strutting and crowing about it from every rooftop.

Yea - busted. The GOP leadership should just bend over and take it like a Page who’s dropped a nickel at a meeting of the Republican Committee for the Promotion of Family Values.

[RTFirefly]

The latest from the LA Times: Foley’s predilection has been well known among pages since 1995.

WASHINGTON — Years before sexually explicit electronic messages sent by Rep. Mark Foley to teenage House pages became public last week, some on Capitol Hill say, the Florida Republican was known to have a special interest in younger men.

In interviews with the Los Angeles Times, several current and former congressional employees and others said they recalled Foley approaching young male pages, aides and interns at parties and other venues.

“Almost the first day I got there I was warned,” said Mark Beck-Heyman, a San Diego native who served as a page in the House of Representatives in the summer of 1995. “It was no secret that Foley had a special interest in male pages,” said Beck-Heyman, adding that Foley, who is now 52, on several occasions asked him out for ice cream.

Another former congressional staff member said he too had been the object of Foley’s advances. “It was so well known around the House. Pages passed it along from class to class,” said the former aide, adding that when he was 18 a few years ago and working as an intern, Foley approached him at a bar near the Capitol and asked for his e-mail address.

<snip>

The current and former congressional staffers interviewed by The Times, who are from both parties, said it was well known within the Capitol’s gay community that Foley was interested in young men.

“Among the gay political community, there was a pretty wide understanding that he had an eye for the interns and the younger staff,” said one former congressional staffer.

The staffers said Foley — who was elected to the House in 1994 and is not openly gay — would seek out the young men in bars, restaurants and even around the Capitol.

The former intern said he was approached by Foley at Bullfeathers, a popular restaurant and bar a few blocks from the Capitol. “He asked for e-mail, which I gave him,” said the young man. “I was 18. To have a congressman take an interest in you seemed pretty cool.”

But he said he quickly regretted it. Foley began sending him e-mails, asking for more information about him. “It was a patented act,” he said. He stopped responding to Foley soon afterward.

Beck-Heyman, the former page, said several other male pages in his class also had been approached by Foley. “Mark Foley knew he could get away with this type of behavior with male pages because he was a congressman,” he said.