Congressional Page Scandal

[hankzzz]

I think it is good to have at least two viable political parties, but they have to roll up their sleeves and get something done. Rep Foley is gone and Denny Hastert should probably go, too. But lets look at the two years after the election. There are some things that desperately need to get done like fixing healthcare, fixing the war in Iraq, fixing the levies, etc.

All this scandal shows me is that both parties are subject to the same weakness. I only hope that someone appointed to a key committee for the protection of children is watched a LOT more closely for their behavior.

I look at the rebalancing of Congress as a potentially good thing... But we need to make our voices heard about getting things done and cleaning up the corruption. We need demand better from government!

[Jamie McDaniel]

While reading Newsweek in a doctor's waiting room, I ran across this letter to the magazine. I liked it not for what it says about Foley or Hastert, but what it says about us, the American people.

So it took a sexual predator to make us question our leadership? Lies about WMD and thousands of U.S. and Iraqi deaths were not enough. Nor was Abu Ghraib, a multibillion-dollar no-bid Halliburton contract, the denial of glob-al warming, tax breaks for the wealthy, 47 million uninsured citizens, Katrina's aftermath, the outing of a CIA agent, nor a declaration from 16 U.S. intelligence agencies that the Iraq war has increased terrorism. These weren't enough to call into question the party of morality? Mark Foley and House Speaker Dennis Hastert deserve what's coming to them, yet must the word "sex" be factored into the transgression before we are shamed to outrage?

Steve Kronen
Winter Park, Fla.

www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15359284/site/newsweek/

[kara speltz]

Originally Posted by Jamie McDaniel

While reading Newsweek in a doctor's waiting room, I ran across this letter to the magazine. I liked it not for what it says about Foley or Hastert, but what it says about us, the American people.



www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15359284/site/newsweek/

Absolutely, Jamie. I recall during the Clinton scandals, an Austrailian mentioned the difference between America and Austrailian settlers who came from England - America got the Puritans and Austrailia got the exiled criminals. He gave thanks for that. Our Puritanical values have so little to do with what Christ's message was all about; I find it almost paradoxical.

It was the Samaritan woman at the well that Jesus first acknowledged his divinity to. Imagine that! A woman with 5 husbands and the man she was currently living with she wasn't even married to, but Jesus found her worthy to be the first to know that he was indeed the messiah. And he didn't even demand she repent!

Kara

[revtj]

Q: WHY DON'T CONGRESSMEN USE BOOKMARKS?

A: THEY PREFER TO BEND OVER THEIR PAGES.

(That's so old, it dates back to the previous page-sex scandal in DC when I was in high school )