A Note to Congressman Mark Foley: Shut Up Already!

I just had a "bulletin" come up on the news just now telling me that Mark Foley, the Republican House of Reprehensible accused of sending sexually oriented messages to a 16-year-old Congressional page, just released an announcement stating that he was molested by a member of the clergy as a child. His lawyer says this is not an excuse, but that's exactly why it was revealed.

Yesterday, he checked himself into an alcohol treatment center - what Washingtonians always do when in any kind of trouble - because booze made him do it.

Enough! Foley, you're an asshole. There is no justification for taking the positions you took (protecting kids from Internet predators, keeping Congressional pages safe from Congressional predators), giving all this rhetoric to piousness, and then committing the acts you committed.

Many of us were molested as very young children. Many of us grew up in families torn apart by drugs and alcohol and many (myself not included thankfully) who went on to become addicted to such substances in their adult life. But most of us don't do what you did.

Stop making excuses. You did it. Admit it. Get yourself help. In the meantime, shut the fuck up. You're just showing us again what lily-livered, spineless, morally bankrupt pissants you and the rest of the "moral" Republican reds are.