As ABC News reports that Rep. Mark Foley had online sex with a high school student during a Congressional vote, more conservatives are beginning to question Speaker Dennis Hastert's leadership.
But take note at the different tone that comes from Majority Leader John Boehner and Majority Whip Roy Blunt about Hastert:
Boehner pins responsibility on the Speaker:
"I believe I talked to the Speaker and he told me it had been taken care of," said Boehner. "And, and, and my position is it's in his corner, it's his responsibility. The Clerk of the House who runs the page program, the Page Board — all report to the Speaker. And I believed it had been dealt with."
But according to Reuters, Blunt is standing by Hastert:
"The speaker has led the Congress through dangerous and important times. His leadership has been steady and consistent, and he has the strong support of the conference," said Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, the third-ranking House Republican.
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In very “Red” Southwest Missouri, where Satan is reported to inhabit many street corners, it is going to be interesting to see if the local Republicans are going to do the right thing in assisting their party leadership to clean up its act, or just repeat the protective party line that ignores their self proclaimed morality in what they have preached for so long.
Now that we know Speaker Hastert was informed of the Foley pedophilic problem many months ago, and just sat there on his hands to cover it up, and now that Congressman Blunt has issued his signal to the local folks to play dumb and be silent in an apparent effort to continue the cover up of the cover up, the party of so-called family values has lost the last shred of claimed high ground with their leaders instructing the goose step march to Heaven on the low road. How could it possibly be interpreted any differently?
We might even gain some respect for the local Republicans if they would step up and practice what they preach to make appropriate demands that those guilty in the cover up of ongoing homosexual pedophilic actions be chastised properly, and dismissed from their positions in which they were as irresponsible as the pedo himself, but that probably isn’t going to happen, and it is such a shame because then the values will be known for what they are. I wonder if the local Republicans actually have the decency to be ashamed of such national leadership, or if they are just Satan hunters of convenience? I think we would challenge the local Republicans to do the right thing to clean up their own mess for the sake of their own image all across America, but… it means they would have to jerk Congressman Blunt’s neck tie, and I doubt they have the wherewithal to do that. I bet we will know the answer to that by election day.
(signed)
Progressive Vet
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