The Foley scandal is a source of wonder to me. Politicians can steal, take bribes, wipe their asses with the Constitution, and work all manner of evil and stupidity without getting much attention from the public. I reckon the corruption and lies and evil are just too complex for us. But throw in sex, and we’ll condemn the hell out of it and anyone who even knew about it.
Dennis “The Walrus” Hastert deserved to be pilloried before the Foley scandal came out, but it took something sexual to get folks’ attention and call his leadership into question.
If this scandal costs the GOP its majority in Congress, that’s OK by me. In my book, the GOP had already done plenty to merit being thrown out of power and ridden out of town on a rail while wearing a fresh coat of tar and feathers. That the GOP is evil and incompetent didn’t seem to be enough to imperil their majority until Foley’s exploitation of pages came out.
What do I make of this? My preliminary conclusion is that we Americans are by and large mulletheads without the sense that God gave a duck. And we’re weird about sex, especially with young’uns.
The GOP regime can incinerate thousands of children in Iraq and elsewhere and send 18 year olds into a war zone for no good reason without concerning the public overly much, but sending a sexual text message to a kid really gets us in an uproar.
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