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9 Responses to “House votes to expand House Page Board.”

1. ForTruth says:

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   I’m sorry, I’m not very interested in this right now. That’s really nice, but according to our attorney general, we have no rights. We’ve been misreading the Constitution for 200 years.

   January 19th, 2007 at 11:31 am

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2. ForTruth says:

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   The damn enablers allowed this to happen. Expanding the page board would do what about that?

   January 19th, 2007 at 11:31 am

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3. VerbalKint says:

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   I like the way they worked Foley in there by name, complete with party identification. Perhaps a better statement would be:

   “ensure that current and former teenage pages are no longer vulnerable to improper conduct by Republican lawmaker-pedophiles.

   Maybe Bush will veto the thing, just to show that he’s boss. He certainly is developing a knack for damaging the GOP. Of course, he wrecks just about everything he touches.

   January 19th, 2007 at 11:32 am

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4. TripMaster Monkey says:

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   That’s great, guys.

   How about that impeachment thing? How’s that coming along?

   Have you at least cut off funding for the Iraq occupation yet?

   Don’t get me wrong…I’m sure this is important too. But working on crap like this, when a madman and his criminal entourage have seized this country, involved it in an unjust war based upon false pretenses, and are currently making scary faces at another Middle East country, is a lot like putting a fresh coat of paint on a house that’s falling down.

   January 19th, 2007 at 11:36 am

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5. katy says:

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   i am from IL 19th – tried hard to keep shimkus from being re-elected…
   it is opinions like this below that allowed him another term:

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   In the wake of Foley’s resignation and the innuendo that followed, Shimkus admitted that maybe he could have done more.

   When calls for his resignation from the page committee arose, the Illinois Congressman told this newspaper that “. . . accepting the cry to resign from the page board assumes that you did something wrong. I don’t want to give anybody the satisfaction of me saying that what I did was wrong based on the information available. And that’s an implicit admission of guilt.”

   So Shimkus rode out the storm, was re-elected to his House seat and went about his business.

   We salute Shimkus for having the backbone to stand up to those who called for his head when the controversy swirled over it.

   And we salute him now for opting to leave the page board behind.

   Congress is headed in a new direction under the recently elected Democratic leadership.

   Shimkus understands that and it is serving as his motivation for moving on.

   “I’m done with it, and not because I don’t love the kids,” he said in an Associated Press story. “If you’re going to have a new look at it, in all honesty, you ought to have some new eyes looking at it.”

   So Shimkus, wisely, is separating himself from the page board.

   We believe it is the best move for all parties involved.

   http://www.goedwardsville.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17699040&BRD=2291&PAG=461&dept_id=473645&rfi=6

   January 19th, 2007 at 11:40 am

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6. Mary Poplins says:

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   Why haven’t they arrested Foley yet?

   January 19th, 2007 at 11:57 am

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7. Jay Randal says:

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   Congressional members still do not understand that having underage teenagers in DC is not a good thing. And who passed the lowering of the age of consent in DC to 16? Shame on any politician who thinks Pages are cheap whores working for their personal pleasure.

   January 19th, 2007 at 12:59 pm

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8. RCC says:

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   Positive move, but too little too late?

   January 19th, 2007 at 2:58 pm

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9. katy says:

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   Positive move, but too little too late?
   Comment by RCC — January 19, 2007 @ 2:58 pm

   for foley and his victims, yes… but, “out of lemons…” …

   January 19th, 2007 at 6:38 pm

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