You might remember Rep John Shimkus as the Chair of the House Leisure Suit Caucus . He's the guy who organized a slave auction for congressional pages who wanted to date the House's most eligible bachelor, Rep Mark Foley. It was a bold move on his part given his knowledge of Foley's hunger for young teen men. Now, he's giving sermons on Twitter. Fall Fundraiser: Please give if you can. Paypal
When it comes to outing anti-gay officials, Blog Active's Mike Rogers invented the gsame — or at least mastered it. Without Rogers's exposure of folks like Rep. Mark Foley or outh Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer, there might never have been that Outrage film. So how does Rogers feel about ChurchOuting.org, the website promising to [...]
They got rid of scandal-tainted Majority Leader Tom DeLay, airport shoe-tapper Larry Craig and prurient instant message typer Mark Foley, but they just can't seem to shake the gloom. Congressional Republicans scored just 36 percent approval ratings from the American public in a CNN/Opinion Research poll released Friday. Fifty-four percent of Americans viewed Republicans in Congress unfavorably, [...]...
“There is a tide in the affairs of men.” -- William Shakespeare Y es, but undertows too. As Obama, Pelosi, and Reid rush to transform America into a European-style social-democratic state, they must be nervous; they must feel the sand sliding under their feet. The 2010 elections are just over the horizon and the omens are not encouraging for them. Thomas Jefferson warned that “great...
I doubt Florida Gov. Charlie Crist sat down with his beard lovely new wife last night to watch the HBO debut of Outrage , the powerful and hardhitting film in which he stars. He has more on his mind than a post-political stage and screen career. The Republican Senate nomination he was assured he had all sewn up is slipping out of his grasp. First it was only certifiably-- according to Thaddeus McCotter...
This week the House Majority Leader came out strongly against revoking the telecom amnesty passed in last year's FISA Amendment Act. Taken together with his other major policy positions, has anyone done more active harm to the left's priorities? For more on pruning back executive power see Pruning Shears . No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post The headline is hyperbole,...
I find myself a little surprised in my choice of topics for this week. Usually, I have tried to contain myself to more policy-based discussions, along with my usual media screeds – and, of course: bacon. However, I couldn’t help but notice all the attention that is being paid to the topic and began to ask myself questions as to why. Quite frankly, not being able to discern a reasonable...
Rooney is well to the right of Czar Nicholas II After Tim Mahoney, the corrupt Republican turned-quasi-Democrat who Rahm Emanuel had recruited 2 years earlier for Mark Foley's congressional seat was exposed as another sexual predator, reactionary Republican Tom Rooney took the seat (in 2008, an otherwise stellar year for Democrats). Since then Rooney has distinguished himself as the most extreme right-wing...
What does MEGHAN McCAIN want to be when she grows up? An astronaut? A syndicated Twitterer? Balderdash! Meghan dreams of a simple life in the circus, as a lion tamer or a contortionist or something. But Meghan is already surrounded by clowns! CINDY McCAIN can walk on her hands ...
Just in case we hadn't been reminded enough, anonymous centrist Democrats let us know that Rahm Emanuel won the House in 2006, and everything was better when he was around to protect Blue Dogs: Many centrists credit Rahm Emanuel, now White House chief of staff, then a congressman from Illinois and a member of leadership, for pushing Pelosi to protect vulnerable members. As the former head of the House...
GOP radio host and unprosecuted child molester Mark Foley (R-FL) told Florida's Conservative Republican Alliance at a fundraiser for Marco Rubio (also attended by Limbaugh) that he would like to "use my experience and my voice to help others, to rally for economic sanity, to bring about real reforms on a local, state and even national level" and he doesn't rule out running for office again....
By Capt. Fogg "Ninety percent positive — 99 percent positive from Palm Beach," said the station's general manager, Chet Tart in an e-mail to Florida's Sun-Sentinel . "Negative from other areas." He's talking about comments on Inside the Mind of Mark Foley , a radio show that debuts tonight at 6:00 PM Eastern on WSVU -AM 960 KHz. He's still a local hero, never mind the sexual...
You too can land a radio show gig by sending pervy IMs to young men who are serving their country as Congressional Pages. Mark Foley, the Florida Republican who left Congress in 2006 amid accusations he sent lurid e-mails to male House pages, is credited with helping to sour the electorate's view of the Grand Old Party in a year when Nancy Pelosi and the Dems swept into power. In the years since, he's...
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