Bad Love

If parents should be able to trust anyone with their kids, you'd think it would be THE GUY WHO RUNS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S EFFORTS TO KEEP KIDS SAFE.

But, apparently, Mark Foley couldn't be trusted. The gay/not-gay/gay congressman had too much love to give those pages, and now he's the second-most famous pederast ever.

BUT, say his lawyers, let's not forget who the real victim is here: Why, it's the much maligned, alcoholic, abused-by-his-reverend Mark Foley! Just because he's a congressman in charge of efforts to keep predators away from kids, that's no reason to think he could keep his own demons at bay! Besides, "Any suggestion that Mark Foley is a pedophile is false!"

AND, say the Republicans, let's not forget who the real bad guys are here: Why, it's those terrible child-buggering Democrats! Why, isn't there a gay Democratic congressman from Massachusetts around here somewhere? And that guy who did the same thing 33 years ago! It's THEIR fault! And Bill Clinton's!

Yep, it was all those LIBERAL DEMOCRATS who made Foley have AIM-sex with his former pages while waiting to cast his vote for the war funding.