Foley Report: Piling On EditionMore voices rise to join the chorus denouncing the House ethics committee’s report exonerating GOP leaders for their blind-eye behavior to former Rep. Mark Foley’s page seduction:
Houston Chronicle - “Critics for years have described the bipartisan U.S. House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct as a joke. [The Foley report] removed all doubt about the House’s inability to discipline itself.”
U.S. News & World Report - “The bipartisan report on the Mark Foley scandal was a study in pitiful cowardice.” (Opinion)
Orlando Sentinel - “If willful ignorance among members and staff to Mr. Foley’s exploits and reckless endangerment of teenage pages doesn’t break any rule or call for any penalty, the committee’s standards aren’t low. They’re subterranean… . The long-awaited report on the Foley scandal was an acid test as to whether the House ethics committee — evenly split between Republicans and Democrats — was finally ready to wake up to its responsibilities after years of slumber. The committee flunked.”