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Boehner: What's Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander
Back when the Mark Foley page scandal threw Republican leadership into the spotlight, Rep. John Boehner voluntarily testified.
And now that Foley's successor, Tim Mahoney, has found himself in a sordid scandal of his very own, Boehner is eager to see the same standards of forthrightness applied by his Democratic compatriots.
"In 2006, House Republican leaders voluntarily testified under oath in the matter of disgraced former Congressman Mark Foley," Boehner said in a statement released by his office on Wednesday. "Will House Democratic leaders, including Speaker Pelosi (D-Calif.), Congressman Emanuel (D-Ill.), and Congressman Van Hollen (D-Md.), agree to do the same?"
Van Hollen and Emanuel have both admitted to speaking with Mahoney after hearing rumors he was carrying on an affair with a staffer. Pelosi called on Monday night for a House Ethics Committee investigation into the allegations about Mahoney.
Josh
Zachary
Let's keep in mind that there is one big difference between Mark Foley and Tim Mahoney - having an affair with another consenting adult is not illegal.
October 15, 2008 5:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hypocrites calling hypocrites hypocrites. Rich.
October 15, 2008 5:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Representative Boehner forgets that the reason his Republican colleagues needed to testify in the Foley case is because the issue involved Congressional pages. It was an internal Congressional case. The House leadership was responsible for the oversight of what happened in the page program. Only they could provide information on what had happened over the years about incidents between Foley and other pages.
This is yet another case of false equivalence being raised by the Republicans and moron MSM reporters blindly taking stenography. The reporter didn't even have the common sense to ask Boehner about any possible differences in the cases and in standing. The hiring standards for reporters these days seems to be hitting all time lows.
October 16, 2008 6:47 AM | Reply | Permalink