U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., resigned after being confronted with sexually explicit computer messages he’d sent to former House pages.
From the Associated Press
This is relavent because THIS is the reason the Democrats were able to take control of the U.S. House of Represenatives in 2006. This scandal, and revelations that then-GOP Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was trying to keep it low-key or even cover it up, made the electorate sick to their stomach.
Democrats didn't have any kind of a mandate to do what they wanted to do. The voters wanted to throw the bums in control out. At the time, those were the Republicans.
They might have had a bit of a mandate in 2008, with Obama's election. But they squandered it.
This is the most politically inept White House — politically — possibly ever.
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