(This has been said in other places, but I just gotta post it for the record.)

The messages Rep. Foley sent are disgusting and inexcusable. Period. His resignation is wholly appropriate.

Of course, the Democrats will use this for all it’s worth. We’ll be hearing about the Foley issue from now until Election Day, all day long. But I think there’s a way for the political argument to be quickly nullified—have Rep. Foley become a Democrat. After all, when Democrats do things that are far worse—sex with a male page, sex with a campaign staffer, sex with an intern—they are re-elected, pardoned, or given a pep rally.

Also posted on The Light Bulb

UPDATE - The moonbats are already at work trying to change the record.

I have a gut feeling that the fecal matter is about to hit the rotary oscillator…..

North Korea says they will test a nuke.

The US says that will not be acceptable.

But nobody has said we’ll turn NK into a glowing cinder if they do. I suspect we’ll bitch and moan and pound our fist and we’ll let em slide like we’ve let everything ELSE slide.

We are such wusses.

Take that, you coca-crazed Mexican bandits!

Federal agents said they seized about 1,200 pounds of cocaine found inside secret compartments of two private tour buses trying to cross the Mexican border.

The street value of the drugs was close to $37 million, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement late Monday.

[Hat-tip: Associated Press]

$37 million dollars worth of cocaine off the streets. You can bet that’s gonna have a big impact on the supply of cocaine in America!

I was particularly impressed by this sentence, which I’ve highlighted in bold:

Agency spokesman Felix Garza declined to comment today on whether any arrests have been made. Despite similarities between the two vehicles and their arrival times, he said the seizures were unrelated.

Wow–those border agents must be good, what with their ability to catch two of these smuggling buses. Probably not more than 10 or so of these drug-packed convoys cross into the U.S. every year I figure, so it looks to me like we’ve managed to reduce the influx of illegal cocaine into the States by about 20% for the coming year.

I can smell the Victory right around the corner…

PREVIOUSLY–

• Drug War Victory Watch Part I
• Drug War Victory Watch Part II
• Drug War Victory Watch Part III
• Drug War Victory Watch Part IV

KSEV talk-show host Edd Hendee has a project he is working on, and could use a little help from LST readers in brainstorming this question–

How is the National Republican Party–i.e., GOP elected officials in Washington D.C.– like the Democrats and Democratic party that conservatives are always complaining about?

Obvious examples would be things like “Democrats always want to increase the size of government; since capturing the House in 1994, government has grown under Republican-rule by ‘x’ percent.”

Your thoughts are eagerly awaited in comments; purpose to become clear in the near future.

Have you had your fill of Mark Foley yet? The disgraced Florida Republican has resigned from Congress over lurid e-mail and instant messages he sent to Congressional pages several years ago that curiously just came to light very close to this fall’s election. Democrats have feigned outrage, and the Drive-By Media has dutifully fanned the flames, but they have ignored much corruption in their own ranks, and Foley’s immediate resignation undercuts their supposed rage.

In the bizarre world of Democrats and the Drive-By Media, a Republican writing notes to a teen is evidence of a “culture of corruption” while a Democrat president actually getting it on with a young intern in the White House is a resume enhancement. (“Hey, it’s my private life. Can’t we just move on?”) Had Mr. Foley’s last name been instead Clinton, Kennedy, Frank, or Jefferson, the media firestorm now being unleashed in Washington would be snuffed out like a candle in a hurricane.

The simple truth of the matter is that Foley’s behavior was unacceptable and he is gone. Democrats and their media friends will get all the mileage they can out of the story, but it will be discarded for the next “Republican crisis” in due time. Whether all of this will have the desired effect at the ballot box remains to be seen.

This is starting to really get me wondering what in hell is going on. Guess what turned up on my fax machine last night at 11:12 PM? The missing/non-existant report, that is not supposed to be a report, but an “evaluation” and was supposed to probably be “a few PowerPoint slides”… well it isn’t PowerPoint. It is a 4 page document with no NHMCCD or Gilbane logos on it so it will be difficult to prove where it came from, but there is something strange about the document.

The cover letter has two fax machine headers on it from two different machines. The time stamps would indicate that they are some thirty one minutes apart, but only the cover page has two headers, pages two through 5 of the fax have only the later one. This would appear to imply that someone (Lampe?) faxed a cover page to someone else, who then faxed the cover letter along with the remaining pages of the report to me.

There is a large amount of financial information here to support their claims. I will however be the first to say that I am unqualifed to analyse the information’s validity or if there is something else that should be here that is not. I know there are people around here that are much better qualified to analyze it so I will leave that to you guys.

I will say however that it could not have been developed without cooperation by someone at NHMCCD, and it was clearly written to justify a course of action by the board of trustees, so Laughter is clearly in violation of the law in claiming that no such report exists.

I am currently in the process of trying to pull the caller ID report for that fax machine and hopefully by this afternoon I will know where the fax came from. It is entirely possible that it would NOT be financially viable to use the facility. I am unqualified to make that judgement, I CAN however say that the way in which this has been handled stinks to high heaven.

If the NHMCCD Board will go to these lengths to obstruct the public’s view of their stewardship of public funds, I have to seriously wonder what ELSE they have buried. The fact that it would appear that Charlotte Lampe is complicit in the obfuscation speaks volumes to me.

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