In the event that you've just crawled from beneath a rock, Congressional Representative Mark Foley of Florida has been caught sending sexually explicit e-mails to and engaging in chat conversations with male Congressional pages. Pages are junior and senior year high school students, 16-years old or older, who have been nominated by their Congressman. In other words: kids.
As you may have guessed by the frequency of my posts, I generally don’t blog unless I get pretty riled up about something, mainly due to the fact that I hold a regular job, am a freelance artist and writer, and an entrepreneur. As you may have also guessed by the title of this post, my solution is simple.
Take Foley out and hang him. Figuratively, not literally. Well, no... literally too.
As a Libertarian, I have often found myself siding with Republicans more often than Democrats. Democratic politicians seem to embrace the “if it feels good, do it” mentality. That in it’s own right isn’t so bad, but that mentality seems to extend to the thought that if you've been caught doing something you shouldn’t, if you make enough excuses it would shift the spotlight (and with it, responsibility) away from you. In the past, Republicans tended to accept responsibility and step down, as they should. Not any more.
Enough, dammit.
This whole Foley situation has shown us one thing if nothing else, that no matter how high and mighty they might paint themselves, Republicans are just a different ilk of the same, detestable beast: Politicians. It’s bad enough that Foley has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar, but when the Speaker of the House and other leading Republicans start to make excuses or worse, justifications, for Foley’s behavior, it’s time to break out the rope.
As I’ve said before (see
Gut Reaction: San Francisco), having an excuse does not legitimize deplorable behavior. First Foley said he was an alcoholic (which no one seems to be buying, and for good reason), and now he’s saying he was molested by a priest when he himself was a child. And for some reason, this makes what he did okay?
Face it, plenty of people have been molested, and millions more are alcoholics, yet
they don’t seem to be going around molesting children. And what’s worse, they’re not in positions of immense responsibility like Congressman Foley. What’s worse
still, is that even more powerful and seemingly responsible Congressmen aren’t running around making excuses for them!
Here’s a hint for you, Mr. Speaker of the House Hastert:
Quit standing up for this weasely sack of shit. Take him out and turn him over to the authorities. Foley has done absolutely wretched acts and he should be punished for it. Severely. That means more than allowing him to resign and walk away with a gargantuan pension. He should be censured and tossed out on his fucking ear, where hopefully a set of large, uniformed police officers stand ready to toss him into the deepest, darkest oubliette in the known world.
After they’ve accomplished that, every scum-sucking maggot who defended Foley should be tossed right in behind him.
This sort of behavior is beyond deplorable, and it matters not which side of the aisle it has come from. There is
no reason this should be tolerated by anyone in a position of authority. I said it when BJ Clinton got caught, and I’ll say it for Foley and any of his ilk that get caught doing this sort of thing. Yes, frankly, I
do expect my elected officials to live on a higher moral plane. I
do expect my elected officials to behave like angels. As an American, I have every right to do so.
Congressmen are in positions of power and authority and it seems that with every passing day, more and more of them abuse that power for the basest of vices and I am damned sick and tired of it! They make our laws, yet seem loathe to live by them themselves, and
that is the ultimate hypocrisy. It's wrong,
everyone knows it, and they should hang for it. Period.
Semper Fi,
Mattski
Oooh-Rah!
