Democrats eager to talk up the page scandal swamping the GOP plan to claim that the Republicans are not protecting the children of parents back home. "Look at the E-mails the leadership had as if you were a parent," said one House Democratic strategist. "You wouldn't just want to investigate who sent them; you'd want to kill that person. That's why this is such a big deal," he said.
In all the steady stream of ink spilled into the rancid sea now known as the Foley affair, none is more disingenuous and telling than one word so cavalierly thrown into the mix in the dark of night: bipartisan.
AP - A milk-truck driver carrying three guns and a childhood grudge stormed a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday, sent the boys and adults outside, barricaded the doors with two-by-fours, and then opened fire on a dozen girls, killing three people before committing suicide.
AP - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld passed on an offer of Venezuelan tobacco, but tried to smoke out the government of President Hugo Chavez on the country's recent military buildup.
AP - The candidate chosen to replace former Rep. Mark Foley on the November ballot faces the awkward task of persuading voters to elect him by casting a vote for the disgraced former congressman.
A fourth girl has died of wounds received when a gunman barricaded himself in an Amish school and opened fire, CNN has confirmed. Seven other wounded girls are listed as critical. The gunman, identified as a milk truck driver, was armed with three guns, two knives, a stun gun and more than 600 rounds of ammunition, police said Monday.
Former Rep. Mark Foley is in an alcoholism treatment center three days after resigning from Congress amid allegations that he sent inappropriate messages to teenage pages. Foley said he deeply regrets and accepts "full responsibility for the harm that I have caused."
Well, it's October, so -- surprise! The most politically explosive writing to hit Washington last week wasn't what's in Bob Woodward's pages. It was those alleged e-mails between Mark Foley and at least a couple of congressional pages and what the House Republican leadership did or didn't do back last fall.