I wasn't going to say anything about this. I think that the Foley brouhaha is despicable. It makes no difference if he is gay, was abused, is an alcoholic, etc., etc., etc. What he did was inappropriate even if in Washington D.C. it is not illegal with the age of consent being 16. Anyone who converses with young people in the way it is reported Foley did needs to reassess his/her life, priorities and honor.
A 16-year old is still in the process of creating an ethical system. Whether the law says they can make adult decisions at this age or not, their moral structure is still in transition. Their lives are in flux. They are still defining right/wrong, acceptable/unacceptable, good/bad for themselves and the rest of their existence.
Adults on the other hand, for example Dennis Hastert, have a moral process developed. The real question for an adult is if the process they have in place is honorable and fair. This brings me to the real issue roiling inside my brain.
What is more despicable for me is the reaction of the Republican leadership. They seem to be doing nothing more than trying to save their own asses - survival of the fittest, natural selection in the ultimate sense. [So much for creationism and intelligent design! An oxymoron?]
The lastest, as reported by the Associated Press, now has Hastert trying to shift blame to Bill Clinton!
Hastert asserted Wednesday that any Republicans urging his ouster were playing into the hands of Democrats and blamed his problems on the media and Democratic operatives, even suggesting former President Clinton might somehow be involved.
"All I know is what I hear and what I see," he said in an interview with the Chicago Tribune on the eve of the ethics meeting. "I saw Bill Clinton's adviser, Richard Morris, was saying these guys knew about this all along, If somebody had this info, when they had it, we could have dealt with it then."
In fact, Morris, who has advised both parties, offered no independent knowledge of Democrats being aware of the Foley communications before they came out. He said on Fox News that an unidentified reporter told him a Democratic leader had known about the matter.
Hastert said "people funded by George Soros," a liberal billionaire who has plowed millions into this and other election campaigns, want to see the scandal blow up. And he warned that when the GOP "base finds out who's feeding this monster, they're not going to be happy." reported on yahoo!news By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer
And he warned that when the GOP "base finds out who's feeding this monster, they're not going to be happy."
W...T...F...?
There is more than one definition for the word base. The one below seems the most fitting to me in describing what's going on with the Republican leadership:
adj. 7 a : lacking or indicating the lack of higher qualities of mind or spirit : IGNOBLE b : lacking higher values : DEGRADING
synonyms BASE, LOW, VILE mean deserving of contempt because of the absence of higher values. BASE stresses the ignoble and may suggest cruelty, treachery, greed, or grossness (base motives). LOW may connote crafty cunning, vulgarity, or immorality and regularly implies an outraging of one's sense of decency or propriety. VILE, the strongest of these words, tends to suggest disgusting depravity or filth (a vile remark). Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
do you think this might also well describe "the base'?
just asking...
p.s. when the base was after Bill Clinton and the Lewinsky episode they didn't seem to hesitate to pull every ignoble, degrading, base, low or vile punch they could.
Republican = double standard?
just asking something else...
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