From OP Ed News
By Jayne Lyn Stahl

The Democrats may have found the way to win back the Senate from those whose campaign for “family values” has just hit a major speed bump. As you know, Florida Republican Rep. Mark Foley resigned from Congress yesterday after the discovery of some e-mails he wrote to a former teenage male page. One much publicized Foley missive to the 16 year old former congressional page asks: “You in your boxers, too? Well, strip down and get naked.” This isn’t the first instance of congressional impropriety. In 1983, two members of the House were censured for their dalliances with teenage pages. (AP) But, as the president likes to remind us, that was before 9/11, and with FCC, as well as governmental emphasis on “indecency fines,” this could well be the biggest boon for a Democratic takeover of Congress we’ve ever seen, that is, if the Dems take a lesson from Bill Clinton, and start speaking up.

There is more than a little irony in the fact that the suggestive e-mail was sent from the 52 year old congressman who represents Palm Beach County, also presides over the Missing and Exploited Children’s Caucus, and has been actively engaged in efforts to eradicate Internet child pornography. Further, it was Rep. Foley who asserted that “We track library books better than we do sexual predators,” a statement which, no doubt, has come back to haunt him today.

This is not about the congressman’s sexuality, or his attempts to seduce young boys; this is about his duplicity, and the hypocrisy of the party he represents.

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