In the midst of my Sunday morning blog reading, a story posted on Talking Points Memo (
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/...) aroused my curiousity. The story by DK talks about what the Republican leadership knew about Foley, and specifically discusses that Delay knew each GOP representatives likes and dislikes intimately.
I then wondered if Foley was a swing vote on any bills passed by Congress this year, and a quick Google search later...
turns out that Foley was sitting on the fence on the CAFTA bill that passed 217-215. Foley's vote was so much in doubt, that Foley was personally called by President Bush very shortly before the vote.
http://www.tradeobservatory.org/...
Does anyone think that the GOP leadership saw the pedophilia tendencies of Rep. Foley as an opportunity rather than a problem? Nothing would surprise me anymore.