Pot, Kettle, Black
Published Tue, Dec 12 2006 10:51 PM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics, Elections, Republicans, Democrats, Corruption
Democrat hypocrisy knows no bounds. From the Washington Times:
Democratic campaign operatives pushed newspapers to write about then-Rep. Mark Foley's e-mails to teenage pages in the hope that a scandal would emerge before the midterm elections, according to a House ethics report.
The findings were bolstered when an aide to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, Illinois Democrat, said the congressman also knew about the e-mails, which were dubbed "inappropriate" by the ethics panel. Mr. Emanuel, who was chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) when Mr. Foley's sex scandal broke in late September, had denied knowledge of the Florida Republican's e-mails.
So it turns out that he lied. That's not very surprising is it?
On Oct. 8, Mr. Emanuel was put on the spot during his appearance on ABC's "This Week."
"Did you or your staff know anything about these e-mails or instant messages before they came out?" host George Stephanopoulos asked. Mr. Emanuel interrupted with "No."
Well, we know now that that was an outright lie don't we?
Rep. Patrick T. McHenry, North Carolina Republican, called the news "stunning," and accused Mr. Emanuel of letting a "predator roam free" for "cold, calculated political advantage."
Isn't that what the Democrats accused Speaker Hastert of? Republican's aren't blameless in this incident, that's certain, but now it turns out that the Democrat's calls for Hastert's head were just another instance of the pot calling the kettle black.
According to ethics panel testimony by the page's father, a staffer for Mr. Alexander told the family they did not have to speak with reporters who had been calling. The father also told the ethics panel that the staffer warned them that "Democrats would like to use something like this" for political gain.
Of course, that's exactly what they did, to wondrous effect. Of course this whole sordid tale is about who knew, and when what a Republican Representative said and wrote to a congressional page, that it turns out was of legal age in Washington D.C.
And, ultimately, that's all that ever took place between Mr. Foley and the page. Meanwhile, when Gerry Studds died, the Democrats and the media couldn't praise him highly enough.
The Democrats rode a wave of indignation over the hyprocrisy of Mr. Foley into power, all the while exhibiting even grander hypocrisy. Let's not forget that Gerry Studds actually had sexual relations with his page.
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