Haskert, Foley, And A Better Reason To Vote Democratic (papau)

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(This is DU's own papau)

William Chirolas -- World News Trust

Oct. 11, 2006 -- Why does the media hide the fact that House Speaker Denny Hastert actually lives with his Chief of Staff, 56-year-old Scott Palmer, Hastert's longtime unmarried adviser, in a Washington, D.C., townhouse along with Hastert's Deputy Chief of Staff, Mike Stokke... while Hastert's wife Jean lives in Yorkville, Ill., and stays at a hotel when she visits Washington? Is it because it might imply to some folks that Hastert is gay and is protecting a rather large GOP network of folks from being outed? Is it because Representative David Dreir (R-Calif.) lives with his chief of staff, and they are gay partners, and some might see a parallel?

So we have a curious bedding relationship among some males, one of whom (Palmer) is an out- of- the- closet gay male. They “share a house in D.C.,” but only a few reporters like Mathews have noted this. Now I do not care why they share a house. The Foley coverup is the same moral and ethical situation if the reason for the Speaker’s three-some is the District of Columbia’s high living costs or friendships, rather than his being gay. But you can bet your bottom dollar that if the Speaker were a Democratic Party member, the media would be doing nightly specials on this interesting living arrangement.

Now let’s get something straight from the get go -- gays are much less likely to be pedophile perverts than straight folks, as has been shown in many studies of the topic. So ignore the right wing nuts who try to change the Foley story from “Why did the GOP over possibly 11 years (at least five years per GOP Congressman Kolbe) hide the pedophile pervert Congressman Foley (R-Fla.),” to, “those evil gays must be dealt with.” The Number One story here is about ethics and morals and coverup, which means it is NOT about being gay.

There is a second story in all this, and it is how the arrogant and ruthless and believers in scorched-earth governance -- Palmer and Hastert -- have been able to get the media to cover up the past Haskert ethical lapses, and the past “throw the staff under the bus” Haskert response to getting caught. In the 1992 scandal, when dozens of members of Congress were caught writing bad checks that the House Bank covered without penalty, among those caught with their hand in this particular cookie jar was J. Dennis Hastert -- in his first year in office. “Throw the staff under the bus” Haskert, running his office via Palmer but having a Washington-based “chief of staff” Peter Vroom, blamed his problems on Peter Vroom and fired him. Of course the crime was all Haskert, and Vroom had nothing to do with the checks and the illegal activity (just ask the staff from that time and they will confirm this).

If the Democratic Party wins in November, it will be because of a great deal more than the Foley coverup. Democratic Party members seem a bit more ethical, moral, and honest than most of the GOP in Congress or the Whitehouse or the Supreme Court, and they have a very real set of core beliefs. Most are conservative in fiscal matters, as the decrease in the size of government and the budget control by way of fair taxes and moderate spending under Clinton showed -- and most are liberal in social matters. The media likes to pretend that “liberal” has no meaning -- that there are no liberal core beliefs. A piece in the Chicago Tribune by Geoffrey R. Stone, a law professor at the University of Chicago, did a very nice job describing what a liberal believes:

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