GOP - The party of family values and morality and barnyard animals.

The GOB is the staunch defender of morality in our age.
Yeah, buddy! And I have this nice little bridge in Brooklyn, cheap!

From The New York Times, Carl Hulse & Raymond Hernandez:

Top House Republicans knew for months about e-mail traffic between representative Mark Foley and a former teenage page, but kept the matter secret and allowed Mr. Foley to remain head of a Congressional caucus on children's issues, Republican lawmakers said Saturday.

The exchanges began with what Republicans now describe as an "overfriendly" e-mail message from Mr. Foley to the unidentified teenager. But news reports about the exchanges have led to the disclosure of e-mail correspondence with other former pages in which the discussions became more and more sexually explicit. Shortly after he was confronted by ABC News on Friday about the subject, Mr. Foley, who represented a south Florida district, resigned from the House.

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From Huffington Post, a whole bunch of links. Got your barf bag handy?

Pages Warned To Avoid Foley As Early As 2001…Foley Tells Page Program In 02 Of Taking Teen On “Cruise Down In My BMW To Morton’s”…
FBI Opens Investigation…
Harry Reid: Possibility GOP House Leaders Ignored Dealing With Foley To Preserve A Congressional Seat…
VIDEO: Murtha…“It’s Outrageous…It Really Makes Me Nervous That They Looked Like They Tried To Cover It Up”…
VIDEO: Foley...“We Track Library Books Better Than We Track Pedophiles”...
GOP Rep: “If They Knew Or Should Have Known The Extent Of This Problem, They Should Not Serve In Leadership”…Speaker And Majority Leader Caught In Page Scandal…Knew Of Emails By Late 2005…
WaPo:”A Full-Blown Party Dilemma”…
NRCC Chair May Have Donated To Foley After He Knew…
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