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Title: Joe Scarborough: D.C.'s dark bottom exposed
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MSNBC
URL Source: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15106507/
Published: Oct 4, 2006
Author: Joe Scarborough
Post Date: 2006-10-04 01:33:46 by Morgana le Fay
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Views: 314
Comments: 11
I know Mark Foley. Mark Foley is a friend of mine. But in all my years working with him in Congress and on TV, I could have never foreseen the sleazy events that brought about his fall from power. Mark and I entered Congress together in 1994 and spent the next four terms working together on legislation and political campaigns. Rumors about Mark’s homosexuality followed him from his first day on the Hill, and I even discussed the issue with him before he launched his Senate campaign in 2003. Though I had never broached the subject out of deference to him, I just wanted Mark to know it would come up and warn him that he had better have a response ready. I also told him not to be surprised if the White House stepped in with a candidate like Mel Martinez to drive him from the race. Mark guaranteed me his friends in the Bush administration would never do such a thing. I don’t know if they did. Perhaps you can ask Sen. Mel Martinez the next time you see him. Reading the first set of e-mails made me uneasy. My friends who knew Mark and I got on the phone and wondered aloud why he would ask a high school kid for a picture. Friday afternoon I saw the instant messages he sent to another student that made me scream. I realized Mark was in big trouble. But he is not alone. Where was the Republican leadership over the past year? They knew of Mark’s inappropriate e-mails to a former page but never informed Democratic leaders so they could warn those pages they had brought to Washington. How could the Speaker of the House not remember being told by the Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee that Foley had been confronted with his inappropriate emails to a male intern? Does this happen so often in Congress that it was no big deal to Denny Hastert? Why did Republicans allow Mark Foley to continue as chairman of the Committee on Missing and Exploited Children? Why did they let him lead the charge on their bill to stop the exploitation of minors on the Internet? And who was hiding these explosive instant messages over the past year? Someone buried these IM’s despite the fact they allegedly showed a congressman trying to meet up to have sex with a teenage boy. The fact this person held on to them until one month before the election makes it obvious that the intent was to inflict maximum damage on Mark Foley and the Republican Party. Why did this person (or people) withhold criminal evidence from the FBI? Should they also be arrested for obstructing a federal investigation and preventing congressional leaders from taking steps to protect other high school pages? Regarding political maneuvering, I would suggest that Democrats remember Napoleon’s advice that one should never interfere when your enemy is destroying himself. Dems should keep quiet so not to open themselves up to charges of hypocrisy. After all, their party did little when one of their colleagues had a homosexual affair with a 17 year old intern—engaging in sex with the teen in his Georgetown apartment and then taking him to Portugal to carry on the illicit affair. The disgraced representative remained in Congress for another decade and was never stripped of anything other than his clothes by the teenage boy. Maybe we will find out that Mark Foley also had sex with teenage boys. But for now, Foley’s e-mails and IM’s are disgusting enough. And even though there is enough sleaze to fill buckets on both sides of the political aisle, it is the Republican Party of Foley, Abramoff, Cunningham, Ney and DeLay that will be on the ballot next month. That is bad news for Mark Foley’s party and bad news for the President, who can ill afford to lose the House or Senate this fall. Read Scarborough's first draft of this commentary. © 2006 MSNBC Interactive URL: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15106507/ © 2006 http://MSNBC.com
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#1. To: Morgana le Fay (#0)
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Rumors about Mark’s homosexuality followed him from his first day on the Hill Seems to me you could have easily forseen these events Joe.
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And could this be a means of payback by foley for the mistreatment by the party over the senate deal? This senate seems to be typical of the gopers......look at how they've tried to deny harris a chance....and she was a good little foot soldier. I was frankly surprised that he bolted as quickly as he did.......none of the usual denial, excuses, blah blah blah, and then finally heading south.
Joe Scarborough should be mindful of his own skeletons he has rattling around in his various closets. Someone died in his office mysteriously, A PAGE if I'm not mistaken.
I could have never foreseen the sleazy events that brought about his fall from power . . .
#2. To: Morgana le Fay (#0)
#3. To: Morgana le Fay (#0)
#4. To: Morgana le Fay (#0)
 | What's that Mr. Nipples? You want me to ask the nice lady about her rack?. |
#5. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#4)
Yeah, an aide "fainted" in his Florida office and "hit her head". So what do you do with a ex congressman who has an aide who dropped dead in his office? Give him a television show of course. If he ever strays off the Beltway parameter of debate- there is always an exhumation order that can be issued and "new evidence" that can mysteriously surface. Indeed- I think it is a resume must to have a steamer trunk full of skeletons to be a congressman or MSM mouthpiece these days.
#6. To: Morgana le Fay (#0)
Throw up.
#7. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#4) (Edited)
Someone died in his office mysteriously, A PAGE if I'm not mistaken. http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html The story had a brief flutter in the Northwest Florida press, which ran a few very short stories on Lori's death. With the exception of the Northwest Florida Daily News, they were of the "Aw-what-a-shame/ nothing-to-see-here-move-along-now-folks" variety. But nationally, this mysterious death earned a mere one paragraph mention in The Washington Post's NATION IN BRIEF column: "FORT WALTON BEACH, FL. - Lori Klausutis, a 28-year-old office worker for Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-Fl), was found dead in the congressman's district office. Police said preliminary findings from the medical examiner's office showed no foul play or any outward indication of suicide." Unbelievably, that was it. The story was simply dropped. A young female employee of one of Florida's Congressmen had died unexpectedly in the Congressman's office. There were no witnesses to her death and the cause of death was not apparent. Klausutis' boss, Joe Scarborough had recently resigned from Congress prematurely and unexpectedly, amid rumors about his marital fidelity and soon after a divorce. He had also abruptly resigned as publisher of the Independent Florida Sun, claiming that resigning from Congress and as publisher was necessary to spend more time with his sons. http://www.americanpolitics.com/20030721Baker.html Joe Scarborough has run a ragged course. A few months after Klausutis' death, responding to a question by Chris Matthews about what would happen to an aide left his employ and wrote about him, Scarborough blurted out "I think they'd be in danger." Abandoning his congressional seat, his role in publishing the Florida Sun and an active legal career with the Levin Law Firm, Joe Scarborough eventually re-married, left northwest Florida and moved to New York, to join the stable of sideshows at MSNBC. Recently Don Imus slagged Scarborough with a question from left field: "You said you had sex with that intern and then you had to kill her." Scarborough, laughing, replied, "Yeah, well what are you gonna do?" On Imus, of course, it's difficult to tell the humor from the rest of the nastiness. One is reminded of George Bush's answer to Tucker Carlson's question about murderess and born-again Christian Karla Faye Tucker's plea for clemency. Pursing his lips, Bush mimicked the lady he had doomed: "Please don't kill me." Hey, death is a scream.
Joe Scarborough should be mindful of his own skeletons he has rattling around in his various closets.
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers
#8. To: Morgana le Fay (#0)
er...yes. And don't worry about the Dems, Joe. You get more agitation out of a bowl of Jello.
Does this happen so often in Congress that it was no big deal to Denny Hastert?
"I woke up in the CRAZY HOUSE."
#9. To: rowdee (#3)
The only reason he folded so quickly is because there must be a LOT more to this scandal, either in terms of his own actions, or who else is involved. Probably both.
I was frankly surprised that he bolted as quickly as he did.......none of the usual denial, excuses, blah blah blah, and then finally heading south.
"I woke up in the CRAZY HOUSE."
#10. To: mehitable (#9)
Oh, I agree there is more to come, but to leave the cushy pay and perks in a flash rather than the usual litany of proclamations of "I didn't do anything wrong" sorts of responses, more digging by the press, a few less convincing denials, and then a decision for the good of the 'country or party', they'd step aside and try to help keep control, blah blah blah. That is what I was surprised didn't get to happen. This guy just instantly jumped back in the sewer.
#11. To: Morgana le Fay (#0)
The 'don't ask, don't tell' Jew media entertainment combine was also aware of Foley's queerness from day one. The Jew media entertainment combine won't ask and won't tell (engage in rumor mongering and character assassination) anything that can be used as blackmail material against a politician unless and until that person refuses to collaborate with the fifth column Jew traitor to the Republic, Izzyland firster, international Jew agenda. Compromised public figures, whether they be of the political, entertainment, Jew tube, radio, business & industry, book authoring/publishing spheres, are one of their chief assets.
Mark and I entered Congress together in 1994 and spent the next four terms working together on legislation and political campaigns. Rumors about Mark’s homosexuality followed him from his first day on the Hill...
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