Pathetic…Just…Pathetic
Via AmericaBlog… Mark Foley, Congressman…
Former Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) interrupted a vote on the floor of the House in 2003 to engage in Internet sex with a high school student who had served as a congressional page, according to new Internet instant messages provided to ABC News by former pages.
ABC News now has obtained 52 separate instant message exchanges, which former pages say were sent by Foley, using the screen name Maf54, to two different boys under the age of 18.
This message was dated April 2003, at approximately 7 p.m., according to the message time stamp.
Maf54: I miss you
Teen: ya me too
Maf54: we are still voting
Maf54: you miss me tooThe exchange continues in which Foley and the teen both appear to describe having sexual orgasms.
Maf54: ok..i better go vote..did you know you would have this effect on me
Teen: lol I guessed
Teen: ya go vote…I don’t want to keep you from doing our job
Maf54: can I have a good kiss goodnight
Teen: :-*
Teen:The House voted that evening on HR 1559, Emergency War Time supplemental appropriations.
According to another message, Foley also invites the teen and a friend to come to his house near Capitol Hill so they can drink alcohol.
Teen: are you going to be in town over the veterans day weekend
Maf54: I may be now that your coming
Maf54: who you coming to visit
Teen: haha good stuff
Teen: umm no one reallyMaf54: we will be adjourned ny then
Teen: oh good
Maf54: by
Maf54: then we can have a few drinks
Maf54: lol
Teen: yes yes ;-)
Maf54: your not old enough to drink
Teen: shhh…
Maf54: ok
Teen: that’s not what my ID says
Teen: lol
Maf54: ok
Teen: I probably shouldn’t be telling you that huh
Maf54: we may need to drink at my house so we don’t get busted
Uhm…Mark… You’re a Lawmaker…
Okay…at least one of these teens wasn’t nearly as embarrassed by this as the other one was. But there is still no excuse. What a kid may want to do with an adult is one thing. But part of being an adult is you know what your responsibility to kids is. And Foley was a lawmaker. That’s (if you’ve read your Constitution lately) what congress does. So…to recap…Foley walks away from a vote in progress, to have IM sex with a teenager, and then in another message suggests they all get together at his house for a little underage drinking where they might not get busted for it. Sweet. If either one of those kids grows up to be a responsible adult they won’t have Mark Foley to thank for setting an example.
And…not anyone in the republican leadership either. So remind me again, what is the value to young Americans to serve as congressional pages? I can see the value to the republican congress easy enough. Free labor…a handy pool of awe stricken kids who are easily manipulated into having sex…
October 3rd, 2006 at 11:02 pm
Um… IM sex? Internet sex? How exactly is it possible to have “internet sex”? Sure, you can flirt, you can set a date, but you can’t have sex. Apparently the juiciness of this scandal is too sweet for liberals to resist, and quickly turns them into prudes. How long ago was it that we were rolling our eyes at the Conservative fixation with Clinton’s indiscretion, and now we gleefully sling the same arrows. Gimme a break. Christians (the old fashioned kind) are called to see through this kind of stupid crap.
October 4th, 2006 at 5:16 pm
It’s like phone sex, genius. And do you really not understand that Foley was exchanging sexually suggestive messages with a MINOR, and that’s what’s outrageous about this?
There is an obvious difference between a 16-year-old and a 22 year-old, the biggest one being CONSENT. (A 22 year old can also drink legally.)