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Top GOP Staffer Forced Out for Role in Page Scandal Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz (ABC News) The chief of staff for Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds, Kirk Fordham, resigned after questions were raised about his role in the handling of the congressional page scandal, according to Republican sources on Capitol Hill. Those sources said Fordham, a former chief of staff for Congressman Mark Foley, had urged Republican leaders last spring not to raise questionable Foley e-mails with the full Congressional Page Board, made up of two Republicans and a Democrat. "He begged them not to tell the page board," said one of the Republican sources. People familiar with Fordham’s side of the story, however, said Fordham was being used as a scapegoat by Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. They said Fordham had repeatedly warned Hastert’s staff about Foley’s "problem" with pages, but little was done. The complaint about Foley was brought to the chairman of the page board, Congressman John Shimkus (R-IL), last spring, and he then consulted with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, Jeff Trandahl. At Fordham’s urging, according to the sources, the matter was not given to the full board, and instead Congressman Foley was privately approached and told to stop all contact with the page he had been e-mailing. "This is something we should have been aware of, and we weren’t, and I’m very unhappy about that," said Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), who also serves on the page board. The Democrat on the page board, Congressman Dale Kildee (D-MI), said it was "unprecedented" to have handled the matter without informing the board members.
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Yes & why do you think the page board was not notified? 3 guesses & the 1st two don’t count 
I love how these right-wingers are trying to blame this on the Democrat’s. I love how Drudge tries to blame this on the young boy’s. Republicans = slime balls. Mr Soul
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A Quiz For Stupid People by Hunter Here’s a little pop quiz, in terms of current events. Given the following three situations: 1) A married man having an affair with a younger woman. 2) Two middle aged women in New Jersey who love each other and want to spend the rest of their lives as partners. 3) A child sex predator who engages in online sex with children, asks for photos of them and their friends, and attempts to arrange in-person sexual meetings with them, with the assistance of a group of men who attempted to cover it up. See if you can figure out which of those belongs in which of these categories: a) Straight b) Gay c) A child sex predator who engages in online sex with children, asks for photos of them and their friends, and attempts to arrange in-person sexual meetings with them, with the assistance of a group of men who attempted to cover it up. Go slow, here — If you’re a conservative visiting from elsewhere, take your time. This may be the first time in your life you’ve faced this question, and I don’t want to get sued for causing an embolism or making people have nervous breakdowns or something. No hurry. OK, got it? Great! Now for the next question. If you were the kind of person so mindnumbingly, star-spangledly stupid — say, a head injury victim, or a victim of this country’s tragic lead-based paint legacy — that you can manage to get the answer to that Child Sex Predator question wrong, would you most likely be: 1) A prominent anchor for Fox News. 2) A torture-supporting prominent conservative commenter just back from a Viagra-using trip to a Caribbean country known for easy tourist access to male and female child prostitutes. 3) A self proclaimed guardian of "moral values" who wrote in his parenting book that fathers should take showers with their young children so the young boys could admire the size and thickness of their father’s penis. Yeah, that one was a bit of a trick. The answer is "all of the above". Note to the few shattered remnants of "moral" America trying to once again launch into faux-moral hatefests against everyone around them rather than face the substance of anything resembling the actual issue here: if you don’t know the difference between straight, gay, and child sex predator — you don’t get a voice in the debate. We don’t have to pay attention to what you think of as "moral" any more, because you clearly can’t figure it out for yourself. Oh: but I’ll hereby invite Brit Hume, Rush Limbaugh, and James Dobson to kindly stay far the hell away from our kids, because if you can’t determine any substantial moral differences between a straight American having an affair, a gay American who has the mere audacity to exist, and an internet sex predator preying on children, I’m thinking your own sexual boundary lines aren’t as well-drawn as I’d like to see among middle-aged and elderly men. Just. Frigging. Saying.
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