It would be so nice to have a job that pays hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, plus all the perks I can scam for myself, plus access to hawt, firm, youthful flesh ready to service me at the drop of an email. No, you’re not surprised. Yes, Democrats better fix this kind of “oversight” ASAP:

The investigative subcommittee therefore recommends no further investigative or disciplinary proceedings against any person.

IOKIYAR, now, today, forever and until after the Rapture. If you don’t want Elder Statesmen Closet Cases showing up at your teenaged kid’s intern parties and message boards, you should move to China. Or something.

Because it’s irresponsible not to speculate. Just how much “fawning” are we talking abut here?

A source close to former House Clerk Jeff Trandahl told ABC News that Arizona Congressman Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) was one of a small number of “problem members” of Congress who page program supervisors complained spent too much time socializing with pages, taking them to dinner or sporting events outside of official duties.  Read more 

This post is starting to sound a lot more like truth. All you need to know from ABC today:

The Republican source said Trandahl planned to name Ted Van Der Meid, the speaker’s counsel and floor manager, as the person who was briefed on a regular basis about any issue that arose in the page program, including a “problem group of members and staff who spent too much time socializing with pages outside of official duties.” One of whom was Mark Foley.

More than one. More than two. Inclusive of staffers.  Read more 

Well, I guess it happens to everyone. Corrente now brings you pr0n.
The money quote:

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Registration table clarification. What I found interesting is that a majority of the election officials making this decision are Democrats. I suppose it’s a “decent” compromise, it’s sure better than the absentee ballot mailing “solution” proposed earlier. Still, I wonder about those laws that require any campaign signs to be so many yards away form the polling place. Oh well, it’s Florida, so I suppose this is the best we can hope for.

By Michael C. Bender
Elections supervisors in Florida’s 16th Congressional District plan to post notices at polling places next month to inform voters of the change in Republican candidates as a result of U.S. Rep. Mark Foley’s resignation.

Supervisors in seven of the district’s eight counties agreed during a conference call to post notices at the registration tables of all polling locations to inform voters that ballots cast for Foley will count for Joe Negron.  Read more 

I’ve always loved the term “stones.” They’re useful for describing large ovaries as well as testes, and look at who’s got ’em:

WASHINGTON - More Democrats went on the attack Friday with campaign ads linking Republican candidates to the Mark Foley House page scandal while GOP candidates moved to distance themselves from embattled Speaker

On Saturday, Democrat Patty Wetterling, a candidate for an open House seat in Minnesota, will continue the attack in the Democratic response to
President Bush’s weekly radio address as the party looks to reap political gains in coming midterm elections.

“Foley sent obvious predatory signals, received loud and clear by members of congressional leadership, who swept them under the rug to protect their political power,” Wetterling said in the prerecorded address. “We must hold accountable all those complicit in allowing this victimization to happen.”

Republican New Jersey Senate candidate Tom Kean Jr. Friday became the first major GOP candidate to call for Hastert to resign, while additional campaign appearances by Hastert for House GOP candidates got canceled. Hastert has come under heavy attack within his party’s rank and file for damage inflicted on the party just weeks before the Nov. 7 elections.  Read more 

C-Span Just announced that Freeh is going to head up an investigation. Probably more details after Denny’s speech in a few minutes.

Say it with me, kids: “Foley is a gay pedophile.

There’s been a lot of chatter since this whole mess broke out about how important it is for people not to smear gays with the pedophilia brush. Normally, I’d be the first in that line. Being gay has nothing to do with pedophilia, gays are no more likely to be pedophiles than straight folks, pedophila, like rape, is about power and not sex, etc. All good liberals know the difference and how to make that argument.

But that’s not the point.  Read more 

Looks like the little angel is going to give me an hour of freetime this morning, so I thought I’d share some thoughts before we’re off to the races.
My niece’s mother is an avid reader; she’s one of those people who I think is wasted in the corporate world, such a fine and curious mind has she. So in quiet spells, I’ve been doing a little review of her library, and one of her most recent shopping sprees at the bookstore resulted in a bevy of books on religion, a subject dear to my heart.  Read more 

You have to watch this.

I’m sure an enterprising winger blogger could come up with a similar list of “naughty” Democrats, but I’ve found a nice list that bolsters the assertions I made previously about perversion being endemic in the Republican party. Barney Frank can hardly be weighted against this list in any meaningful way:

* Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.

* Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

* Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

* Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody who murders an abortion doctor. we’re just getting started, kids.  Read more 

Priceless. Foley shares his feelings in The Saint Petersburg Times:

“It’s vile,” said Rep. Mark Foley, R-West Palm Beach. “It’s more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction.”

Vile, huh?

Heh. Indeedy. Yeah, thank The God of Your Choice the Adults are in charge.  Read more 

In the original sense of the word:

In the series of e-mails, obtained by ABC News, from Rep. Foley (R-FL) to the former page, Foley asks the young man how old he is, what he wants for his birthday and requests a photo of him.
The concerned young man alerted congressional staffers to the e-mails. In one e-mail, the former page writes to a staffer, “Maybe it is just me being paranoid, but seriously. This freaked me out.”  Read more