{"id":374,"date":"2006-10-03T17:29:32","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T22:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/374"},"modified":"2006-10-03T17:29:32","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T22:29:32","slug":"patheticjustpathetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/374","title":{"rendered":"Pathetic…Just…Pathetic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via AmericaBlog…  Mark Foley, Congressman<\/a>…\n<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

This message was dated April 2003, at approximately 7 p.m., according to the message time stamp.<\/p>\n

Maf54: I miss you
\nTeen: ya me too
\nMaf54: we are still voting
\nMaf54: you miss me too<\/p>\n

The exchange continues in which Foley and the teen both appear to describe having sexual orgasms.<\/p>\n

Maf54: ok..i better go vote..did you know you would have this effect on me
\nTeen: lol I guessed
\nTeen: ya go vote…I don’t want to keep you from doing our job
\nMaf54: can I have a good kiss goodnight
\nTeen: :-*
\nTeen:<\/p>\n

The House voted that evening on HR 1559, Emergency War Time supplemental appropriations.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Teen: are you going to be in town over the veterans day weekend
\nMaf54: I may be now that your coming
\nMaf54: who you coming to visit
\nTeen: haha good stuff
\nTeen: umm no one really<\/p>\n

Maf54: we will be adjourned ny then
\nTeen: oh good
\nMaf54: by
\nMaf54: then we can have a few drinks
\nMaf54: lol
\nTeen: yes yes ;-)
\nMaf54: your not old enough to drink
\nTeen: shhh…
\nMaf54: ok
\nTeen: that’s not what my ID says
\nTeen: lol
\nMaf54: ok
\nTeen: I probably shouldn’t be telling you that huh
\nMaf54: we may need to drink at my house so we don’t get busted \n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Uhm…Mark…  You’re a Lawmaker…<\/p>\n

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.\n<\/p>\n

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… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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