Reporter A.B. Stoddard of The Hill newspaper posited on Olbermann tonight that Mark Foley, whom she seems to have spoken to of late, may be deliberately using the drip, drip, drip of sexual revalations about his past to exact revenge on the GOP for throwing him overboard. Meanwhile, if there is a gay Republican backlash against the gay Republican backlash, it also involves the former clerk of the House, Jeff Trendahl (an openly gay Hastert appointee,) who apparently told the ethics committee that not only was Speaker Hastert's senior staff, including his chief counsel, "regularly briefed" on the party's Foley problem, the problem wasn't just Foley -- there may have been a "problem group of members" and staff who were spending too much time hanging around the pages, according to the latest scoop from ABC News' Brian Ross. Hm. Well that's never happened before...
Back to Foley, however. He has now outed the priest who allegedly molested him. And that extra creepy priest has copped to copping a few naked feels on the then-13 year old Foley. ...The priest, Rev. Anthony Mercieca (not to be confused with "macaca,") who makes Foley look positively un-creepy by comparison -- helpfully adds that, as in Foley's own adventures with under-aged males, there "was no penetration..." Okay, I'm feeling ill. Oh, and guess what? He was "taking pills" and having a nervous breakdown at the time. Rehab, anyone???
Unrelated (probably) but interesting: a judge has ordered the release of the infamous Cheney visiting logs. Wonder how many times Jeff Gannon's name will show up (and was he wearing buttless chaps?)
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