Mr. Foley's folly

What do you get when you have a fairly powerful US Republican Congressperson and a 16-year-old former male page whom he sent sexually-suggestive messages to? Hard, strong, and swift condemnation from the GOP bigwigs who allegedly knew about the text messages (including, but not limited to, House Majority Leader Boehner (R-Ohio) and Speaker Hastert (R-IL)? No.

This is the embarrassing conundrum Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) has put himself into. He has resigned after the text messages he had sent to the page fully surfaced (publicly) a few days ago. The icing on the cake is that Foley is the chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus and has introduced good legislation protecting minors from sexual predators in the past. Now, this may give Democrats an edge in a race that they were sure to lose.

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