The Last Sex Scandal

Kris Weberg | October 1, 2006
Oh. My. God.

Republican Congressman Mark Foley resigns after an e-mail surfaces in which he hits on a 16-year-old male page.

In all seriousness, after this, is it possible for anything a politician does to shock anyone ever again? We've had a President who takes blowjobs from a 21-year-old female intern. We've had a longtime senator who left a woman to drown...years before he was elected to high office. We've had another longtime senator who systematically harrassed women for decades. The House historian is a former member of the KKK.

And now, the first proven pedophile in the halls of government. And, no less, a pedophile who was -- I kid you not -- the Chairman of a House Caucus on...wait for it...missing and exploited minors.

And it gets worse.

Really, what more could happen that would shock us after this? And why do we continue to vote for career politicians, men and women who have made it their lives' work to hold power and nothing more? Why are we surprised when power does to them what it has always done, throughout history?

Jackie Mason | October 3, 2006
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Scott Horowitz | October 5, 2006
I wonder if he's a card carrying member of NAMBLA???

Scott Hardie | October 13, 2006
Sex advice columnist Dan Savage makes a good liberal argument about Foley: (NSFW) Disregard the obscene drawing on the right – that's related to the main text of his column this week; the Foley commentary is unrelated.

Amy Austin | October 15, 2006
The last two years have to have been the best ever for Jon Stewart -- they just keep making his job easier and easier. Then again... how do you write hilarious jokes when the truth is already just too goddamn funny to improve upon???

Tony Peters | October 15, 2006
and as if Jon isn't funny enough for you Steven Cobert is just as good. However I was in tears during the Daily Show Bit about Pages' being the Fluffers of congress. The sad part is that Foley is only gonna make this election more about things that aren't really issues that actually effect the country

Jackie Mason | October 15, 2006
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Jackie Mason | October 19, 2006
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Amy Austin | October 19, 2006
Gozo in the Maltese Islands, eh? Hmph. Must be nice.

You know, he had my objectivity (as did Michael Jackson)... right up until the pills and the night he couldn't remember.

Scott Hardie | October 22, 2006
I love when politics turns the tables on people. If Foley was a Democrat, the religious right would jump to the defense of the priest, innocent until proven guilty and all that. Instead, the congressional pages are being blamed for their promiscuous ways – minors all.