The whole page thing is extremely useful to the scions of well-connected families to learn how to advance in the corrupt and unwholesome environment of politics. There have been enough page scandals that I never would send any offspring of mine into this environment, but if I wanted the fruit of my lions to grow up to be Monica Lewinsky or Steve Gobie, I couldn't think if a better training ground.
If sane people made the rules, the tradition of pages would have been abolished decades or centuries ago, but these things are run by people like Paris Hilton's parents, and while they may profess to be shocked, I tell you, shocked that these things are going on in Babylon on the Potomac, they don't really have much reason to be.
I misremembered that Steve Gobie was a page, but upon reviewing Barney Frank's Wikipedia page, I see that he wasn't. But still, this was a pretty unsavory jam Frank got himself into, and survived by standing his ground. Can you blame the Republicans for circling the wagons - would you want to be without Barney Frank? At any rate, there is no shortage of sex scandals among Democrats - Many of them are horndogs too, drunk on booze and power. Enjoy this while you can, it will be cutting the other way soon enough.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Frank
In 1990, the House voted to reprimand Frank when it was revealed that Steve Gobie, a male prostitute that Rep. Frank had befriended after hiring him through a personal advertisement, had conducted a prostitution ring from Frank's apartment when he was not at home. Frank had dismissed Gobie earlier that year after learning of Gobie's activities.
The Boston Globe, among others, called on Frank to resign, but he refused. The House Ethics Committee recommended Frank be reprimanded because he "reflected discredit upon the House" by using his congressional office to fix 33 of Gobie's parking tickets. Attempts to expel or censure Frank failed; instead the House voted 408-18 to reprimand him. This condemnation was not reflected in Frank's district, where he won re-election in 1990 with 66 percent of the vote, and has won by larger margins ever since.
Yep. Joementum.
And little boys.
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From: SXG < sgnwmxco@bellsouth.net >
Date: Oct 5, 2006 10:26 PM
Subject: [DailyKos] Lieberman Loves Him Some Hastert
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video at this linkLieberman Loves Him Some Hastert
By: Jane HamsherJoe Lieberman takes yet another swing at Democrats who want to "politicize" the gross mismangement by his Republican friends that led to the online sexual solicitation of minors who were under their protection. As he told the Courant:
"The Foley case bothers people," he added. "If anyone thinks they can make this into another partisan flap, it's not. It's very real and human. The House Republican leaders and, frankly, the Democratic leadership, should not make it partisan."
Hey Harry Reid, he's talkin' about you. Are you gonna take that — again?
"The fact that Joe Lieberman says calling for Hastert's resignation is too `partisan' demonstrates that he's been in Washington so long that he can't recognize the difference between what's right and what's partisan."
Many have been disgusted with Lieberman's refusal to hold the White House accountable when it came to the Iraq War, and his vicious attacks on those who have criticized the war. But this goes from disgusting to nauseating. Watching him, you think you are watching a smarmy politician in a B comedy movie about Washington. You know, the guy who goes before cameras to claim to be a moral pious man, and then turns around, pockets a huge amount of Republican cash from moneymen funding the legal defense of indicted government officials, and then goes back out and attacks those demanding action to deal with the cover up of a child sexual predator scandal.
Put another way, this is the kind of behavior that confirms all the awful stereotypes people think about politicians. As Lamont told reporters today in reiterating his call for Hastert to resign immediately , people in Washington like Lieberman are reacting to this story as if children are just props in morally challenged politicians' never-ending quest to hold onto power. It's sick and its wrong - and it's time for a change.
The memory of Holy Joe on the floor of the Senate being his sanctimonious, scolding, old-maid self makes it — if possible — even worse.
Jeebus he is a sickening, degenerate, soulless, bought-and-paid-for DC insider hack.
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Larry
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