Waiting for the next shoe to drop

October 5, 2006

I’ve heard a surprising number of rumors today about “the next shoe to drop,” which in some ways, makes all of today’s updates, from Dennis Hastert and others, preliminary. If Mark Foley wasn’t the only one, this mess could, believe it or not, get considerably worse.

Consider:

As the scandal over former congressman Mark Foley entered its sixth day, one Republican warned that there may even be further disclosures involving other politicians. “People are very, very concerned,” said Representative Ray LaHood, an Illinois Republican. “They think there are going to be more disclosures.”

Hastert reportedly wants to seize control of this situation and go on the offensive. It’s highly debatable whether that will work. But if even one more GOP lawmaker is exposed as having any kind of relations with a page, all bets are off.

“…if even one more GOP lawmaker is exposed as having any kind of relations with a page,…”

and Hastert knew about problems with that representative

“… all bets are off.”

If you can’t show that he again turned a blind eye, there is not as much an issue.

I mean, adults having sex with teenagers. Who would have thought?

Certainly not the values voters the Republican’ts like to call “THE BASE”.

Strange, isn’t that the meaning of “al Qaeda”? Must be because they are all Theocratic Reactionaries 😉

  • Gee, three days for 500 guys to debate flag burning, but they never had time to ask a few people if anything weird was going on? They need an Inspector General on staff.

  • I would prepare for the Swift Boating of a Democrat for sexual indiscretions to make the news coverage “bipartisan”. A lack of participation in the coverup by Dem leadership, or absence of evidence would be overlooked for balance.

  • Since the FBI had the capability to canvass all current and
    former pages, just what sense does the Tip LIne make?
    Could Hastert be hoping to snare a Democrat in this web,
    so that everything looks bipartisan? Would he risk snaring
    another GOPer to do it? And who would be those people
    behnid anonymous tips that leave everyone wondering?
    Could Haster be hoping this this whole mess will be hidden
    behind a big fog of assusations?

    Ed.

  • Has anyone ever asked Hastert or Reynolds or Shimkus if they are aware of ANY OTHER member of congress who had sent “questionable” e:mails to congressional pages?

  • Hortense,

    If you are not a Republican tool/troll, you are then either a pessimist or a dreamer. Drudge ain’t got squat!

  • “I’m sorry to say, I think it will all play out to look like Dem dirty tricks.”

    With the proven exception, of course, that the Foley information came from a Republican.

  • It’s amazing watching the Drudge/right-wing sleaze machine work. Once they realized that their “it’s the Dems fault” dog wouldn’t hunt, they switch gears to “oh, it was all a hoax.” Unbelievable. I’m sure the forums over at Hannity will all be abuzz about how the evil liberal MSM has now brought down a great man in Mark Foley over a hoax. It is amazing what the power of denial and self-righteousness can do.

  • So no one else has to go to Dredge:

    According to two people close to former congressional page Jordan Edmund, the now famous lurid AOL Instant Message exchanges that led to the resignation of Mark Foley were part of an online prank that by mistake got into the hands of enemy political operatives, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.

    See? It was all just a joke!

    According to one Oklahoma source who knows the former page very well, Edmund, a conservative Republican, goaded an unwitting Foley to type embarrassing comments that were then shared with a small group of young Hill politicos.

    And let’s not forget that Foley was deep in the sauce. It would’ve been way easy to convince him to send dirty IMs to pages asking about penis size and masturbatory habits. And even easier to do it all in a carefully orchestrated prank that lasted several years.

    See? Doesn’t it all make perfect sense?

    The prank went awry when the saved IM sessions got into the hands of political operatives favorable to Democrats.

    But it did not go awry when Foley found out he actually enjoyed it. That was just a bonus.

    The primary source, an ally of Edmund, adamantly proclaims that the former page is not a homosexual.

    Because being teh ghey is dirty …

    [snip]
    The news come on the heels that Edmund has hired former Timothy McVeigh attorney, Stephen Jones.

    And Timothy McVeigh was unavailable for comment on the quality of Jones’ litigative prowess.

    All snark aside, these people have lost their collective f***ing minds. Seriously … they’re all need large doses of Thorizine and a nice padded room.

  • I hated to give Drudge a hit, and I don’t trust his “exclusives” at all, but if, if, what he says is true then it was a sting that worked. There was no denial that Foley wrote the stuff in the IMs.

    Regarding Hastert, I notice that the Speaker of the House doesn’t have to be a member of the House. I’m sure the executive branch would love to give them some hands-on leadership.

  • And Timothy McVeigh was unavailable for comment on the quality of Jones’ litigative prowess.

    @11 Holy Moses, Unholy Moses. I nearly choked on a wasabi pea.

    Thanks for sparing us the pain of ticking the Sludge’s hit counter. Hortense sweetie, that ain’t a shoe, that’s a Hastert sized pile of steaming crap.

    It never ceases to amuse me that the Neo-Cons can continually churn out this rubbish and some un-needed additions to the planet’s population gobble it up while making “yum yum” noises. What do they store in that empty space between their ears, tapes of Rush Windbag shows?

    I had hoped the shoe would be Hairshirt and his minions doing swan dives from the top of the Capitol building but apparently The Globular One has found a way to “take responsibility” for the mess while not doing anything that suggests he feels responsible. (I.e. wobbling the hell out of Dodge.)

    tAiO

    p.s. Hastert reportedly wants to seize control of this situation and go on the offensive.

    I got news for ya, Hastert is always offensive. [completely non-sexual rimshot]

  • I had never seen the Drudge site before today, since hearing second hand about it was enough to make we want to vomit on the spot. So today, out of curiousity I gave him one free hit, that I can tell you, he will never have the luxury of counting in his traffic stats again. That site is so pathetic that it comes off as a parody of itself. You can just imagine the zombie like idiots who tune into that trash on a regular basis. I was really astounded that after all the hype he gets, that a site like that was what it was all about. He’s a joke, and it’s not a funny one. He reminds of the kind of loser that used to be on the radio before the days of the internet. A bitter, pathetic hack, desperate to be somebody, but with no skills to think of. So of course his only remedy to that is to be a partisan political hack/shill. How sad. I cant wait to watch him be flushed down the toilet bowl of history. Useless drivel for the masses their. It makes TV look like high brow art.

  • To anyone who made the mistake of visiting Drudge’s site I would recommend running your anti-spyware programs as soon as possible. I quite going there a long time ago mainly because the site loaded so much junk on my computer.

  • “And Timothy McVeigh was unavailable for comment on the quality of Jones’ litigative prowess.” – Unholy Moses

    LOL, my face if red from laughing. I’ll have to show that one to my (rather conservative and Drudge loving) wife 😉

    Hortense, that is a joke on Drudge. They can imply all they want that this stuff was given to ABC by some democratic-leaning pol or staffer, but the fact is that Foley messed with Republican’t teens and Republican’t teens messed with him back. It’s entirely a intra-party slimefest.

    Besides, this isn’t the only stuff on Foley.

  • I suppose the resignation was a hoax as well. It is all just a funny joke meant to rile up a homophobic Republican page. Seems like these are the kind of guy that should be in charge of 1/3 of the most powerful country in the world.

    Cow is out of the barn and it is taking a crap on mainstreet. Only true kool-aid drinkers will fail to see the cow pie for the flies.

    The tighter they hold on to power, the more it slips through their fingers (hat tip to Princess Leia”!)

  • BTW how exactly does one goad another, who is uninterested in such things, to ask an underage male how long his penis is?

  • ***Check out Drudge. The shoe has dropped.***
    ———————————————————————-Hortense

    Yeah—and they posted a nice color glossy of the dirigible Hastertburg right next to Franken-Bunny.

    And don’t worry, marcus—whenever they download garbage to my harddrive, I send it right back—with interest—compounded “microsecond-ly….”

    *snark*

  • BTW how exactly does one goad another, who is uninterested in such things, to ask an underage male how long his penis is?

    Comment by Nobody

    Isn’t that a new Census question? Or just one for the next Republican Push Pole?

    As remembered from the Onion: Ugly guy with big penis unsure about how to get the word out.

  • Drudge is sqat. Attack, attack, attack. Drown the santimonius hypocrites in their own vomit. Keep hounding Hastert. Suffocate the bastards.

    Hastert & the GOP protect child molesters.

    SCREAM IT.

  • ***Check out Drudge. The shoe has dropped.***

    Translation (from Kool-aid-ese to English):

    “Pay no attention the the Patrick McHenry behind the curtain. I am the Great and Powerful Drudge !!!”

    Oh…I’m so-oooooooo “sorry.” Did I “drop a shoe?” Silly me.

    *evil laughter ensues….*

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