Is the Foley coverup all about Blackmail?

[SmokingJacket]

Think how much power the upper echelon Republicans had over Foley, knowing what they did. Heck, they could probably get him to vote however they wanted!

And a cursory look at Foley's voting record shows that he pretty much never veered from the party line.

Just a thought.

[wakeme2008]

1. Even when other Florida Reps did for

Florida like CAFTA...

[Hugin]

2. Good point...

I'm willing to bet Foley isn't the only one 'they' have something on...

He's just the only one we know about.

[SmokingJacket]

8. I always figured that's what the wiretapping was all about.

Get the goodies on the lawmakers, and suddenly they're making laws in your favor!

Maybe this is how the travesty of the torture/habeas corpus bill got passed.

[madokie]

9. I will believe that until it has been shown to be not true

I don't think that will ever happen either. NSA=wiretaps=blackmail=support for bush*s policies.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

3. I would say there is a high likelihood of just that

I am not sure it can be proved, but if they knew about it long ago it would have made sense to get it out in the open then and avoid all the election time hoopla.

sP

[malaise]

4. Why did he give Tom Reynolds $100,000

that's the big money story here...so far!

FOLEY, MARK
VIA FRIENDS OF MARK FOLEY 07/27/2006 100000.00 26960337184
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_rcvd/2005_C00075820

Edit -sp.

[SpiralHawk]

5. Why is Laura Bush supporting Reynolds? Is she an EVIL Doer?

[notadmblnd]

6. SOP for Washington DC, is the way I've always seen it

The pukes get the dirt on their boys and use it to make them go along with the program. How else can one explain some of the crap that gets through congress?

[izzie]

7. Oh I think he was just kept on ice to be used when needed.

This WH will use any one. Look at Blair and Powell. It is all to keep us not thinking of this book after Woodward put it all together for all to see. Bush has to be protected just as his father had to be. One of the reasons Bush had taking so much of the WH papers out of reach for study.

[Warpy]

10. I'm sure his hobby of trying to solicit high school boys for sex

was a convenient thing to hold over his head. I'm just wondering how much of it is going on (girl high schoolers as well as boys) and how many of our fine representatives in Congress are being controlled in one way or another.

Honestly, that NSA spying had to have come up with a tidbit or two, don't you think?

It's one reason we need to clean house every few terms. Congress was never meant to be a CAREER. It was meant to be time taken out of one's regular life to serve one's country.

Great men will always have feet of clay and things that can be used to control them. We all have skeletons rattling around in our closets (mine are still partying like it's the 60s) and things we'd rather the world not know. Given enough time, men like Rove will always find out.

Four terms are enough for any Representative. Two terms are enough for most Senators. After that, they're vulnerable to blackmail and they lose their effectiveness.

[malaise]

11. Makes sense n/t

[woodsprite]

12. What we need is "The Great Congressional Confessional"

Where every player (Dem and Repub) in the House and Senate spill all their own personal beans re: what the WH has on them and let the chips fall where they may. Some may actually keep their jobs, others certainly wouldn't, but they would take ownership of their dark secrets back from *co.

I know, I'm just fantasizing.

Totally tinfoil hat, but what if Foley leaked his own emails and is heading into "rehab" to protect himself. I know, another fantasy.