PAGE OF CONSENT – OF FOLEY, FOLLY, AND PHALLIC FANTASIES

For a political party that claims to espouse family values, I can only wonder: which family? Caligula’s? De Sade’s? Casanova’s?

I refer to the latest moral debacle of course, that of deputy whip Mark Foley, just one more lech in the long line of ‘moral’ politicians caught with their pants down, their ‘thumbs’ in the cookie jar, or what have you.

I’m waiting for the GOP to blame Clinton for this employing their usual semantic acrobatics.

Sure, the Democrats don’t really have such a great record in this regard. There’s a long list of Dems who have conducted themselves in…a less than respectable manner.

Be that as it may, the donkies aren’t the party who claim to be the sole arbiter of ‘good old fashioned family values’. Mom, baseball, apple pie, all that.

From here:
“Unfortunately for the Republicans, they are ill positioned to make the everybody-does-it defense. Their whole shtick is that they're the community pillars, and the Dems are tramps and perverts. Now the image is blowing up in their faces, and too bad for them. Nobody forced them to get in bed with the Christian fundamentalists, who think homosexuality is evil and disgusting and sex outside marriage God's biggest preoccupation. If the family-values right wants Hastert's head on a platter, it serves him right. Live by Jesus, die by Jesus.”

But of course, it’s not Foley’s fault – it’s that old demon drink that did him in. (Typical US bushwah – ‘not my fault’, ‘devil made me do it’, the inability of my fellow citizenry to accept personal responsibilty boggles my mind, it does.)

The other thing that kills me is this: age of consent in our nation’s capital is sixteen. Sixteen? You’re kidding me, right? I’m in California – age is eighteen here. It varies from state to state.

I’m of the same mind as the Asians here – there’s the belief that a person is a teenager until the age of twenty-five. At twenty-four, I’d have bridled, and cussed that out roundly. In middle age, it makes a helluva lot of sense.

Anyways, the accusations, they are a-flyin’ – “Denny Hastert claims the revelations are a Democratic dirty trick. Rush Limbaugh says liberals are the real hypocrites ("In their hearts and minds and their crotches, they don't have any problem with what Foley did, they've defended it over the years").”

Let’s hope, come November, that this is the proverbial straw, and we can marginalize these hypocritical bozos, and get a little more balance back in the government.

That, dear readers, is my nickel’s worth. Flip it: I call heads.