John Cole on Foley: Making it Simple

We really don’t know if Foley actually had sex with any underage teens.

But it doesn’t matter.

But what we do know, and what the American public now knows, is that the party that has spent the past few years demagoguing safety and security and law and order is now known as the party that has screwed up the Iraq war, that has codified torture, that has been filled to the rim with criminals and crooks fleecing the treasury (and who knows what else), and is now known as the party that at its most basic can’t be trusted, because they are the party that has middle age perverts trying to bugger your kids. And even better, the Republican House Leadership didn’t give enough of a shit to do anything about it because it might get messy or it might get in the way of their desires for power and actively hid the information from the oppostion party and the public (or, as we might say, PEOPLE WHO MIGHT HAVE DONE THE RIGHT THING).