Scandal, Schmandal
I don’t know anything about this Mark Foley guy or why I should care that he’s gay or interested in young men or anything else. Apparently, whatever he’s done was egregious enough to have moved him to resign very abruptly from the House of Representatives last Friday, but what it has to do with the Republican leadership or the rest of the party is unclear to me.
The only thing that is clear about this so-called scandal is that it is giving Democrats and their friends in Big Media a very useful tool with which to take apart the Republicans as a lot of hypocrites. These people don’t care any more about Foley’s homosexuality or alleged pedophilia than I do; they just know that he is an excuse to question the GOP about its own closeted membership. Which, in itself, is fine by me, but that doesn’t make the overwrought Democratic rhetoric about “protecting our children in the halls of Congress” any less nauseating and stupid.
Anyway, this is an unserious story that’s only being made consequential by virtue of the fact that every House seat the Republicans stand to lose is one seat closer we are to the Pelosi Era in the House of Representatives.
In which case, I say bring it on. Let’s have the Democrats run the House for a while. It will so shock the Republican base that they will be more energized than ever to right that wrong come 2008.
