Yes, you may not have realized it, but Congressman Tom Reynolds, far from being a scamp who helped sweep the Foley child sex predator scandal under the rug, is really a hero. Really, honest to gosh.
You see, we learn today from USA Today that all these days the congressman has been sputtering, unable to answer a coherent question about the Foley scandal and his role in it, he was really simply refusing to tell us what a hero he really was.
How so? Well, we now suddenly learn that supposedly Congressman Reynolds was the one who demanded that Mr. Foley resign, and so Foley did.
Fordham said he then went to his boss, who said Foley must resign. Fordham then went to Foley's home with a resignation letter, which Foley signed.Isn't that amazing? All the more so since Denny Hastert today claimed that HE was one who demanded Mark Foley resign - and of course, just a few days ago Hastert said he never asked Foley to resign. But who's keeping track, these are HEROS we're talking about, we don't need facts.
So there you have it. Tom Reynolds came to our rescue and demanded that the big bad child-snatching congressman resign. Unless of course it was really Denny Hastert who demanded Foley resign, then Reynolds is simply a liar. Unless Hastert is lying too, then they're both liars.
But hey, you go to war with the heros you've got.
PS We also learn from the article that far from trying to cover up the evidence of Foley's wrongdoing, Reynolds' chief of staff was really just trying to protect the womenfolk in the Foley family from the "lurid details." (You know how silly women get.) God bless those Republicans, always looking out for the women and children.
Well, at least the women.
(Of course, this still begs the question of what Mr. Reynolds' chief of staff was doing working the phones for Foley in the first place. We're to believe that Reynolds had little involvement in the Foley affair when he learned of the emails months ago, yet when the scandal breaks into the open it's Reynolds' chief of staff working as de facto crisis chief of staff for Foley, apparently with Reynolds' permission. So which one is it - was Reynolds' staff at the center of the scandal or not?)
