Foley Makes a Desperate Dash for Victimhood
by Jeff Davis
I have to hand it to former House Representative Mark Foley, R-Fla. He’s a creep and a pervert, but he’s a smart perv. Foley continues to use every slimy trick in the book to dodge responsibility for his actions. Most recently Congressman Foley claimed that -as a boy- a Catholic priest molested him. (Rumor has it, the Catholic priest claims that -as a boy- a creepy Republican Congressman molested him.)
If one does get caught with one’s pants down in an inexcusable situation, then take a lesson from Foley’s book on how to bob and weave and throw sand and smoke in everyone’s eyes to obscure the facts of the case. The first smart thing Foley did was to flee into rehab immediately after the scandal broke, thereby gaining immediate shielding against nosy media and cops, and in some states, at least some immunity from arrest. He thus left his former house colleagues, especially Speaker Dennis Hastert, holding a very smelly bag that they do not wish to hold. (more…)