This was Ned Lamont's statement on the issue:
“Joe Lieberman just can’t bring himself to hold anyone in Washington accountable, even when the safety of our children is at stake. If Dennis Hastert knew that Mark Foley was harassing minors and didn’t do anything about it, he should resign immediately. Anyone who disagrees is morally tone deaf. 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.
Nice.
More politics spam, but did every catch this one earlier this week?
On Monday, responding to the political crisis created by the Mark Foley sex scandal, Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.) insisted Republicans "need to up and do something dramatic." His solution: abolishing the congressional page program altogether.
LAHOOD: It just — it's a program that simply is flawed. It has its flaws. We should fix it. And then if it's a valuable program, perhaps bring it back.
MILES O'BRIEN (CNN): Well, that's kind of a sorry state of affairs. In essence, what you're saying is that members of Congress can't be trusted to be around young people.
LAHOOD: Well, that's pretty obvious.
::boggles::
This coming Sunday and Monday I'll be in New York, I think
Seconding Jessica's drat, since I won't be there then.
MILES O'BRIEN (CNN): Well, that's kind of a sorry state of affairs. In essence, what you're saying is that members of Congress can't be trusted to be around young people.
LAHOOD: Well, that's pretty obvious.
We can't trust them with our children OR our money.
I will say I was a little perturbed about reports of a large cloud of chlorine gas in Apex, NC, 30 miles away though it may be. I mean, those things can move, and don't dissipate fast, as far as I know (which is, shall we say, not so far.)
Hastert's also mentioned ending the page program.
yeah, my response is ?!?!?!?!?!? - you don't think that YOU ALL as the party in POWER can get the page program running in a way that might safeguard them against harrassment from inaapropriate politicians? You don't think you can create an environment in the page program staff and administrators that encourages disclosing this type of information early and to higher and higher levels until it gets addressed????
AND yet, you want us to believe that you can fix IRAQ?!?!?!?!?
Seconding Jessica's drat,
Thirding all and many drats. Argh.
We can't trust them with our children OR our money.
It's because they're drunk.
I will say I was a little perturbed about reports of a large cloud of chlorine gas in Apex, NC, 30 miles away though it may be.
Oh, yes -- I didn't mean to suggest "not worried" -- just "not actually on fire". Sorry if my post came off otherwise!
Yeah, WTF is up with Lieberman? Why doesn't he just become a Republican? (That's not a rhetorical question.)
Welcome to my world, where in the race to fill Frist's Senate seat I'll have a choice between voting for current Representative Harold Ford , who's just barely a Democrat (he's voted lockstep with Republicans on the War, DOMA, and the recent Anti-Bill of RightsTerrorist legislation), or Bush crony Bob Corker.
Ah well, I disagree with a LOT of Ford's positions, but can at least respect that he's moderate on some issues and has the courage of his convictions. I know almost nothing about Corker's mayoral tenure in Chatanooga, but the fact that he's in tight with Bush makes me think he must be either be an oil-funded incompetent or a criminal.
