America, What are you doing? - Part 1

In the first of what will no doubt be many posts on this subject, I will address an issue that makes the US a worse place to live.

There is a man in the United States’ government who is in a world of shit right now. His name is Mark Foley and he is a Republican Congressman/attempted pedophile. He was attempting to solicit sex in one form or another from 16 year old boys. I know what the American people must be thinking – sexy.

Well, surprisingly Americans do not find this to be sexy. What I find to be even less sexy is the 24 or so hours of bullshit excuse after bullshit excuse on both the behalf of Foley and of the Republican Party leadership who apparently was informed of Foley’s cyberspace transgressions some time last year.

First, to address the Republicans who may have known about this long ago: To say that I am surprised that the Bush party would fuck this up and try to sweep this under the rug with every other misstep or poor choice made by any number of Republicans over the last 6 years would be blatantly false. This is a party made of corrupt, powerteat sucking pigs. President Bush’s adamant condemnation of these acts today is as redundant as the cassette tape. He could have taken his job description as a leader more seriously, rather than being the first frat - house president to slip into a parallel dimension and suddenly wake up the most powerful man in the world. If he was more of a leader rather than the dog in the dog and pony show that this administration has become, he would have a firmer grip on these sick people that seem to surround him. I am not saying that every Republican is a pedophile, nor is every Republican a bad person, but the party as a whole seems to invite impropriety – ethically, financially, sexually or otherwise.

Now to take Mr. Foley to task: It seems that thus far Mr. Foley’s strategy has been to blame everything else for the fact that he decided to have online jerk sessions with teens. Initially, Foley checked into rehab for alcoholism. Oh, that’s right, it was the booze. That makes perfect sense to me now. I remember last Friday I tied one on and immediately found the nearest Kinko’s for some hot cybersex with some of the local high school football stars. Alcohol makes you fight, piss yourself, sleep in ditches, vomit, fall down stairs and find young dudes super hot! HORSEHIT! Secondly, Foley decided to disclose, through his lawyers, that a priest had molested him as a child. And as an afterthought his attorney added that Mr. Foley was also gay.

Being gay is not the same as being a pedophile, a point which is probably lost on the Republicans as well as the half of America that voted these dicks into all levels of government. Being a drunk is not the same as being a pedophile. Being president is not the same as being a leader and being over 18 or, in this case, 50 is not the same as being an adult and there in lies the problem. Everyone of these idiots who gets caught with their pants down, so to speak, acts the same as I did when I was eight years old and stole my brothers marbles: deny until I get caught then blame it on the kid down the road to whom I lent my marbles, which he promptly lost, thus rendering me incapable of any other conceivable action that would not violate ethics, laws or just plain common sense. In this case however, fortunately I might add, Mr. Foley never actually got to play with someone else’s marbles.