On moral values: They protected a sex predator in order to maintain their hold on power. This is simply disgusting, and worse than anything the Democrats ever did. Clinton and Barney Frank engaged in consensual affairs, they did not prey on underage kids.

Republicans talk about banning abortion, but they’ll never do it when push comes to shove. Why? Cause they care more about power and big business than they care about Christian voters. They will continue wooing Christians but will never deliver.

Republicans have bankrupted the country with massive debts. They have sent thousands of soldiers to die in a war that has nothing to do with 9/11. They support Rumsfeld, who had bungled the war from day one. Republicans refuse to raise the minimum wage or provide health care for children. Is that what you call moral values?

On security: Bush never sent enough troops to Afghanistan. He let Osama Bin Laden escape at Tora Bora in 2001. Now Bin Laden is free and we aren’t even looking for him. Republicans have turned the Homeland Security department into another inept FEMA-like pork barrel department. They don’t guard our borders, our ports, or our nuclear plants. The CIA just said that the Iraq War is creating more terrorists who hate America.

Democrats are not as corrupt as Republicans, not even close. How many Republicans have to go to jail before you realize this? If you are disgusted by the many failures of this Congress, you DO have a choice. Vote Democrat!

Mama’s got a lot to do today and I bet you do too. So I’m gonna hit you with some quick links to check out in our weekly roundup of what’s happening at the crossroads where minorities and politics meet.

If you found out that your 21 year old daughter’s college professor was banging her in the classroom, you would hate it, but it wouldn’t be the same. It might be unethical, but it would Apples and Wrenches.
We are the party that ran on “Values”. We aren’t supposed to look at this and scream, well they did it too! We are supposed to take the moral high ground, admit culpability and say, Party be damned, this is about protecting the kids. If we don’t we are guilty of the hypocrisy we charge them with every day.

Let’s take the Foley folly as an example. Gov’t has made a law that states 16 or lower is a minor. This was a value judgement put into Law by the peoples elected Representatives in order to protect children from people like Foley.

If your moral value is inconsistent with this one, you may try to reduce, increase, or illiminate the law by getting enough voters to agree with your value and elect representatives that will change it.

Our whole society is held together by Laws the majority of people we elected to represent us found to be necessary to address problems between us……like killing each other or molesting children in this case. It’s basic……isn’t it?

If we disagree then that’s the fundamental difference that’s going to split the coalition eventually….

Think about how better off the Republican Party
would be right now if they had stuck by the values we expected, instead of the convenience.

I don’t remember a Democrat ever resigning, or certainly not forced to by their own party, and we don’t expect it because their values don’t expect ‘responsiblity’.

The best reason I can find to vote Republican in this next election is this:
http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000950.html
Which essentially says, vote Republican so we can marginalize the Democrats enough so that the Republican party can split along its libertarian vs social conservative wings. I for one find “values voters” almost as distasteful as Democrats but at present we’re in a coalition of convenience….

-MM

http://tinyurl.com/jebqp

Maybe. I’ve seen 19, 20 and 22 in various places. I don’t really know which one is correct. I suspect part of the different ages are when the relationship started, when the investigation began and when the actual court case took place.

I’d agree that she was an adult – even if she was only 19 at the time their relationship began – but the other factor is the President-Intern difference, just as with Foley it’s a matter of Congressman-intern. In other words, there are a number of complicating issues in this mess.

Foley Follow-up: Resigned GOP Staffer Fordham Says that He Told Hastert about Foley in 2004

Interesting. Because if you look at the history of both parties, your party would have you calling me “Miss Carol” as you were sweeping my floors. The Republican party was founded as the party of abolitionists. How it ended up in its current state, I have no idea, but I do know it both sickens and saddens me.

First and last, stop lying. Monica was 22. That’s an adult who has graduated from college. Big difference between that and a kid in high school.

We must have STANDARDS. He’s got to go.

I’m glad Foley has been exposed and dumped, and I hope Democrats will take an example and clean their own house as well. I remember being astounded that Barney Frank was allowed to remain in Congress.

I still believe there are at least a couple of good Congressman (having met them personally). That means there are probably more decent folks in Congress than indecent. They don’t always do the job I want them to, it’s true, but then again, they sometimes do. I’m not going to throw a tantrum in November and refuse my civic duty to keep this country from sliding even *further* and *more quickly* downhill under Democratic leadership. At least there are still some conservatives trying to put the brakes on.