I shouldn’t say anything, because I know that political entries never bring happiness to anyone, least of all me. But I’ve been reading all about this developing scandal surrounding Representative Mark Foley and his messages to Congressional pages, and I want to make sure I fully understand the situation. So, let’s review:<\/p>\n
\nItem One: A Democratic president is found to have had an admittedly adulterous but otherwise legal and consensual affair with a possibly naive but definitely legal-age young woman. Republican leaders are so morally outraged that they bring the country to a virtual halt for two years while they try to hound him from office.<\/p>\n
Item Two: A Republican representative sexually harasses underage boys for years — a representative who authored some 15 bills aimed at protecting children from sexual predators, no less. Republican leaders, who apparently knew about their man’s actions for at least a year, and possibly longer<\/a>, do nothing. In fact, they urge him<\/a> to seek re-election. Possibly because he was a big contributor<\/a> to the NRCC, a political action committee “devoted to increasing the number of Republicans in Congress.”<\/p>\n I just love double standards, don’t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I shouldn’t say anything, because I know that political entries never bring happiness to anyone, least of all me. But I’ve been reading all about this developing scandal surrounding Representative Mark Foley and his messages to Congressional pages, and I want to make sure I fully understand the situation. So, let’s review:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}