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From The American Spectator:
“We’re getting into very dangerous territory, and I’ve warned my colleagues to be careful.” That’s what a Democrat leadership aide was saying on Wednesday, as word circulated about David Corn’s blog posting that revealed that a list of gay Republicans congressional staffers was circulating through emails.Just as troubling are concerns among some House Democrat staff that there are potential scandals lurking of a similar vein for them. According to another Democrat source, “I’ve been warning my people to stay away from this story because you just don’t know what will come back to bite you.”Of concern: that House Democrat leadership or Rep. Dale Kildee (Mich.), the Democrat member of the page board, who has served on it since 1985, or his staff have received complaints about Democrat colleagues’ perceived inappropriate communications or contact with pages or former pages, and have not brought those complaints to the board or House management, such as the House Clerk’s office.
“We all know this kind of scandal isn’t just a Republican problem,” says a Democrat political consultant in Washington. “We don’t want to see what is out there about Democratic House members or former members.” The article goes on to say the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is planning to continue pressing this and has more dirt on some other Republicans that they plan to release closer to election time.
This is the worst of American politics.
Hotair is skeptical of the Spectator’s story and will update with developments throughout the day.
I’ll get the ball rolling with yet another installment in the Prowler’s popular series of fake-sounding, too-good-to-be-true quotes from “Democratic aidesâ€:
Just one Minute takes issue with David Corn:
Linking PostsDavid Corn disgraces the left by channeling Joe McCarthy as he explains that the left will only stand up for the privacy rights of their allies:
There’s a list going around. Those disseminating it call it “The List.” It’s a roster of top-level Republican congressional aides who are gay.
…I have a copy. I’m not going to publish it. For one, I don’t know for a fact that the men on the list are gay. And generally I don’t fancy outing people–though I have not objected when others have outed gay Republicans, who, after all, work for a party that tries to limit the rights of gays and lesbians and that welcomes the support of those who demonize same-sexers.
Mr. Corn’s position on outing Republicans is clear enough but he does not explicitly state a position on the merits of outing gay Democrats. However - if he had any journalistic integrity at all he would have to be opposed to “stealth advocacy”. A black man arguing for “black” issues does not need to separately declare his personal stake in the discussion, nor does a woman discussing “women’s issues”.
Wishful thinking.
The prime difference being that Democratic voters don’t care if their congressional representative is gay.
Republican voters on the other hand - especially the blind-faith-every-jit-and-jog-of-the-bible-is-true Christian Right that is the reliable core of the Rove vote producing machine - DO care.
The more mud that gets thrown the more the faith-based voters will stay at home - and the more chance that the dumbest president in history will be impeached, removed, indicted, convicted and imprisoned over the next two years
Comment by bobdevo � October 5, 2006 @ 6:52 am
Bob even though I grew up with my mom making me attend a Baptist church I used feel similarly about christians. I never experienced the bigoted hatred that many leftists do (I am not saying you hold those views, we both know many do) but nevertheless I had a negative view of christians in general.
Not exactly sure when I realized that most christians were normal people just like you and me but at some point it dawned on me.
You give christians far to little credit. There are hypocrits among them just as there are in any group, but as a whole they are decent, honest, hard working people, who love their country, and everyone in it even those whose lifestyle, or faith they may disagree with.
Try talking to some real christians some day. You might just surprise yourself.
Comment by The Ugly American � October 5, 2006 @ 8:24 am
It is the sanctimoniuos hypocrisy of the right which makes them so deserving of contempt!
Comment by madmatt � October 5, 2006 @ 8:26 am
It really doesn’t matter who is gay or not, the question is who is abusing their power and preying on children. I don’t care if it is a Republican or a Democrat, just get rid of them, and their apologists and shields.
Comment by Joe � October 5, 2006 @ 9:06 am
Let’s not confuse being homosexual with being a pedophile. They are as different as heterosexual and pedophile.
Pedophiles are most realistically a separate sexual orientation. For whatever reason they are not interested in anyone who looks like an adult.
For this reason they obviously should not have positions of power over children, to say the least. Every single person involved in covering up Foley’s issues should be taken out of office. If there’s Democrats who knew, too, and did nothing, they too should be taken out.
But it certainly looks at this time like all the people who knew clearly and did nothing were Republicans.
Which means that they don’t care about anything but power. Which means, to me, clearly, that by saying they’re the party of family values, jsut by saying they’re party of fiscal responsibility, that they have been playing all honest conservatives for suckers.
Comment by jim � October 5, 2006 @ 1:00 pm
In defense of Bob, he didn’t say Christians weren’t decent, hard working, upstanding Americans. He said there is no point ‘outing’ gay Democrats because the constituency doen’t care. There probably aren’t realatively many ‘in’ Dem staffers bc it really doesn’t matter. No one in the Dem party is going to witch-hunt them out.
Bob’s point is that the decent, hard working Christians are starting to get the true pictture of why their adjenda isn’t being attented too as advertised.
Comment by Chasm � October 5, 2006 @ 2:03 pm
“The Democrats have a few skeletons of theirown”
And the point is?
The Dems have skeletons, therefore they should not start talking trash? AH…. If only Republicans would follow your advice when this nation has a scandal about a Democrat… You know like this fellow Clinton.
Delicious!! The irony of a bunch of Hypocrite Republican politicians and hacks, calling abunch of Democrat politicians, and hacks hypocrites. That is why Congress has a Cheney- like approval rating of 25% . We the majority in the Center, just want all Politicians and partisan idiots out and deported if at all posible.
Comment by gil � October 5, 2006 @ 7:51 pm
Comment by Chasm.
Exactly.
Comment by bobdevo � October 6, 2006 @ 6:33 am
i am afraid that it is wishful thinking to suggest that the majority of people denoting themselves as christians are not anti gay.
I live in the bible belt of pa. I am surrounded by friendly,loving and hard working Christians. But make no mistake that when you broach the subject of homosexuality they do not hesitate to express their belief that gays are sinners. That gays should not be allowed to marry. That gays are destroying the morality of this country.
This is bigotry. This is not love. This is reality.
Comment by pete � October 7, 2006 @ 1:37 pm
ahhh believing someone is a sinner is not bigotry believing marriage should be between a man and a woman is not bigotry.
There is nothing bigoted in opposing political activists who are trying to implement government policies that are contrary to your beliefs.
One definition that might just describe you Pete:
The state of mind of a narrow-minded person who is intolerant of beliefs other than his or her own.
Does that make you a bigot?
Comment by The Ugly American � October 7, 2006 @ 9:37 pm