GRAND OLD PEDOPHILE

Rep. Foley asks, "Have you ever seen a grown man naked?"

Republican sex scandals are so much more interesting than Democratic sex scandals. No?

I really don't care what politicians do in their private life.

But I do make an exception when one continues to chair the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children in the face of abundant evidence that he is a pedophile. And also if he authors legislation to punish people who use the Internet to exploit children despite his propensity for using the Internet to exploit children. And I carve out loopholes when a politician is secretly gay while supporting anti-gay congressional legislation like the Defense of Marriage Act.

I will admit, however, that even if none of the above were true, I couldn't avoid a scandal that involves the former Republican Deputy Whip admitting that he is "never too busy" to "spank it."

An excerpt of the alleged transcript is below:

The whole instant messaging transcript includes other impending and disturbing buzzwords like "reaching rock."

Now that Rep. Foley has adopted the Mel Gibson defense, I'm curious to see whether Alcoholics Anonymous can cure pedophilia.

Needless to say, the most disturbing part of all of this is the breaking news that the entire GOP leadership in the House and all the Republicans on the Page Board (but not the lone Democrat on the board) knew about Foley's desire to sleep with his underage pages ... last year !

Apparently, GOP leaders are the new Catholic archbishops. Shame.

Update: as new facts keep surfacing about how Rep. Foley actually tried to induce minors to have sex, a federal indictment seems more imminent.

--Junichi