While kicking a man while he's down is probably bad form, I've decided to revel in it a bit. While the Foley scandal festers and inch by inch destroys what remains of the myth of Republican morality, little things here and there keep popping up that show just how out-of-touch Republicans
and the MSM really are.
MSNBC has a poll up asking "Should the congressional page program for high-schoolers be abolished?". (right hand column, towards the bottom)
As of this writing, with 13,000+ responses, 31% think that yes, the page program should be abolished. In other words, yes, the page program is responsible for this problem. This comes on the heels of Hastert's efforts last week to investigate and "reform" the page program - again, let's not investigate and reform Congressional leaders' management of the program nor Members' behavior towards the pages - no, let's investigate the kids.
Funny thing about that 31%. It's roughly the approval numbers for Bush and the Republican Congress in general. Hey, turns out it's also roughly the percentage of the population that self-identifies as Republican! Interesting to see the Republican mindset so exposed, isn't it?
So here's what bothers me, and what I wish surprised me: the view of this situation by 31% of our population and seemingly an entire Party so obviously resembles the views of the Islamofascists they so want to defeat in the Iraq meatgrinder. Not clear how that works? Let me lay it out:
Example 1 (Republican): Teenage pages have been treated to inappropriate and possibly illegal sexually explicit conversation, at a minimum, by at least one Member of Congress, and Congressional leaders covered it up. Solution? Ban the pages.
Example 2 (Taliban): 26 year old woman is gang-raped and beaten. She was not wearing a Burqa. Solution? Ban women not wearing burqas.
Note who does not have any responsibility in both these scenarios.
I'm just sayin'.
PS: Mrs. Switzer pointed all this out to me, so I'm honor bound to give her credit. There ya go, Mrs. S!