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For Shame

By Thomas Jeffrey

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Article Posted: Wednesday October 4, 2006

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There appears to a disturbing effort afoot within the far Right of the GOP to deflect responsibility from the Republican party over the Mark Foley scandal by making homosexuality the root cause for his behavior. And in Congress, a list is allegedly being circulated that implicates a group of gay staffers as being complicit in the former Florida representative’s pursuit of underage congressional pages.

The list, which has already been disseminated amongst the blogoshpere, allegedly reveals the names of “nine chiefs of staffs, two press secretaries, and two directors of communications” who work for some of the cream of the crop of GOP congressman and women, including “Representative Katherine Harris and Henry Hyde and Senators Bill Frist, George Allen, Mitch McConnell and Rick Santorum.”

The effort, which apparently was spearheaded by members of the gay community who work in congress, appears to be aimed at exposing a “network of gay staffers and gay members who protect each other and did the Speaker a disservice.” Ergo, the gays are to blame.

The implication that there is a dirty little underworld operating up on The Hill, made up of evil homosexuals preying on children and embarrassing the Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in the process, is enough to make this Leftwing Nutjob lose his lunch. And even if that were the case, the fact that something like that could operate within the halls of congress without the speaker or his staff knowing about it—considering the fact that it was well known about Mr. Foley’s preoccupations—would again speak to the inability of Mr. Hastert to do effectively do his job.

My dear readers, the inference that homosexuality is the real reason behind this abhorrent abuse of power is something that only the most ardent, twisted, born again bible thumper would subscribe to. And no matter how many times the Right tries to tie the world ills to one’s sexual preference, it always smacks of blatant hypocracy when another ardent ‘Right winger’ comes out of the closet and identifies his or herself as a homosexual.

And whether or not the real reason for this orchestrated effort is to somehow “win back” those on the Right who may choose to sit next month’s election out—disgusted with their party’s fall from grace—this scheme may just be the lowest form playing politics that I’ve ever seen. The only question that remains on the mind of this Leftwing Nutjob is whether or not gay members of the GOP will continue to observe their “code of silence” as their lifestyle is attacked from within and scapegoated by their own Republican party, or will they stand up and say enough is enough?

The party of Abraham Lincoln should be ashamed.

Source:
“The List” (of Gay GOP Aides on the Hill); Hubris on Bloggingheads.tv—David Corn.com
New Revelation In Foley Case—CBS News.com

- posted by: Thomas Jeffrey and Oct 4, 02:47 PM in GOP Mark-Foley

 

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