There is one thing we've learned clearly from the Foley Follies: The ability and inclination of the House Republican leadership to protect the young people who come to Washington D.C. each year to work as congressional pages is about on a par with the ability and inclination of the Republican party as a whole and the Bush administration in particular to protect all the rest of us.
According to right-wing pundit George F. Will (in Thursday's N.Y. Post), Dennis Hastert had the following to say about Foley and his alleged sexual harassment of under-age pages:
"We [Republicans] have a story to tell, and the Democrats have - in my view have - put this thing [the Foley Follies] forward to try to block us from telling the story. They're trying to put us on defense."
Right Denny, it's the Democrats, as usual.
And what is the story the statesman in the White House has to tell (presumably to build bi-partisan support to protect us all from terrorism):
In Scottsdale, Ariz. Oct. 4th, he said:
"Vote Republican for the safety of the United States."
This despite last week's "disclosure of a classified National Intelligence Estimate, first reported by the New York Times,.... The NIE, finished in April, noted that Bush's invasion of Iraq and the subsequent--inept and brutal--occupation has led to a rise in Islamic radicalism that has increased the threat posed by global jihadists. 'The Iraq conflict has become the cause celebre for jihadists,' the NIE says, 'breeding a deep resentment of US involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement.'"
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