The Republicans are trying to blame the Democrats for the Foley scandal and are calling for Pelosi and other Democrats to testify. Pelosi should call and raise on them - announce that she and the Democratic leadership will testify about Mark Foley under oath
on TV and that she expects Hastert and the Republican leadership to do the same.
From
CNN on Friday:
Faced with fending off the backlash from the Mark Foley scandal, House Republicans took the offensive Friday, asking Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats to testify about whether they engaged in partisan trickery by releasing Foley's messages weeks before the midterm elections.
Top GOP leaders -- including House Speaker Dennis Hastert, of Illinois, and Majority Leader John Boehner, of Ohio -- have accused the Democrats of knowing about Foley's correspondences with teen pages, and waiting to release them until it was politically advantageous.
Everyone knows that the Democrats had nothing to do with the releasing of Foley's messages. However, the Republicans are trying to throw dirt in the air to confuse people.
I think that Pelosi should offer to answer any questions for the House Ethics Committee under oath on TV. She would go to a TV studio and have her answers broadcasted on C-SPAN. She should have her Chief of Staff, the #2 Democrat, the head of the DCCC and the Democratic member of the page board all testify under oath on TV. She should then demand that the Republican equivalents do the same. I thing she should say, "Give the importance of this issue, the leaders of the House for both political parties need to be lay all of the facts in front of the American people. It is not enough for there to be some report published some time in the future. The American people deserve to have the facts given to them know about who knew what when."
