Steve Young

Will Bill O'Reilly Push For a Law to Stop GOP Child Molesters and Their Enablers?
... Will The Onion Sue the GOP for Conceptual Theft?
by Steve Young

Oct. 1, 2006 -- HOLLYWOOD (americanpolitics.com) -- The allegation that a child predator was amongst their ranks has been known by Republican leaders for close to a year and they let him continue to serve.

Let me repeat that.

The allegation that a child predator was amongst their ranks has been known by Republican leaders for close to a year and they let him continue to serve.

Serve AND legislate to you... AND YOUR CHILDREN!

Satire? Funny? As a crutch, Rich.

If the Republicans refuse to protect underage children in harm's way, how can we expect them to protect our older children in harm's way -- say, in a war? Let's say, a war where information detrimental to your children has been known for years yet concealed so that the war abusing hundreds of thousands, men, women and children, could continue?

Simply put, we shouldn't expect them to protect our kids. Why? Because the only thing the Republicans in power care to protect is their power, whether that be an alleged child predator or an entire country's predator.

Former Republican congressman Mark Foley's folly with teens should remain the prime illustration of everything that is wrong with the GOP. Not that they all molest children, that we know of... yet -- but that the Republican Party will go to any length, hiding NIE reports, or excusing comments such as "The insurgency is in it's last throes," or backing inadequate body armor as just "commas" or "nanoseconds" in history.

Oh, to be sure, they'll now be out there castigating Foley and saying they find his actions reprehensible.

"My God, the last thing we'd want to do is empower the child molester, especially the child molester we've been empowering the last year."

Monday morning, Sean Hannity will undoubtedly dip into his litany of Clinton bl*wj*bs and Kennedy's Chappaquiddick tragedy (as well as his assertions about what terrific cars General Motors makes) to counter what should be a pox infecting the body Used-to-be Grand Old Party. He has to. They all serve to put food on his table and provide Ruth Chris grade food for his children. The question Sean has to ask is whether or not Mrs. Hannity would allow her children to be babysat by the same guys who allowed Foley to remain to chair the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus.

That's right. Up till this past week, Denny Hastert, John Boenner and the rest of the Republican good old boys allowed 52-year-old Mark Foley, who was sending "are you horny" instand messages and e-mails via the Internet to a 16-year-old boy, to stay on in office AND as chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus.

This is same Foley who had introduced legislation in July to protect children from exploitation by adults over the Internet.

Webster's needs to strongly consider retiring the word "hypocrite."

And this is the same Foley who said that, "We track library books better than we do sexual predators."

Certainly, Foley should know. One wonders how long he's been getting away with it and what the depths his deceit of the public has wrought.

If it weren't so all-firing sad, it would all make for a great Onion story.

The office of House Speaker Hastert, who earlier said he'd learned about the e-mails only last week, admitted sending the information to the authorities last fall. They said they were only told the messages were "over-friendly."

Over-friendly?

What do they think of our men and women coming home from Iraq in boxes? Over-wounded?

Soccer moms, Baseball dads, Mr. and Mrs. Bill "Jessica's Law" O'Reilly, The Hannitys, Focus on the Family members (whose founder, James C. Dobson, told you this week that it would be "downright frightening" if Republicans lost control of Congress) -- every single voter needs to ask him- or herself which politicians are really "downright fightening."

Ask yourselves what else the Republicans have hidden when selling the Iraq War while selling out the country to foreigners, outsourcing well-paying jobs while insourcing cheap labor.

Ask yourselves why -- _really_ why -- the GOP allows drug companies to write prescription drug legislation and support credit card companies against the public is making it nearly impossible for honest citizens to file for bankruptcy even when it was caused by undue medical charges.

Ask yourselves why there was no attempt to secure our borders until days before an election.

Ask yourselves whether you should trust those who hid a child abuser with your children and their future.

Look at your children.

Then ask yourself why the hell you would give these guys another chance.

Steve Young is a Senior Fellow at the Extreme Far Centrist Foundation' Political Husbandry Conservation Centre and Stereo Repair. In his spare time, he is also an author, comedy writer, columnist, LA talk show host and author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful."(What? You STILL haven't bought it? Then visit http://www.greatfailure.com/) and the new "15 Minutes". You can also check out the satirical side of Steve every Sunday in the LA Daily News.

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