ch: Conservative ‘Values’

Katherine Harris Doesn't Make Much Sense

Click the video below to see Florida Republican Katherine Harris’s explanation of the Mark Foley scandal. The basis idea: the media shouldn’t make this a partisan issue, but we need to find out which Democrats—Not Republicans, mind you—knew about the Foley conversations.

“The media would be quite disingenuous to make it a partisan issue. If anything, the Republicans didn’t know about these issues and we’re going to be very anxious to find out who in the media and on the other side of the aisle (Democrats) knew about it and kept this from the public interest, because our children were at stake.”

Noted veteran Palm Beach Post reporter Larry Lipman, “Harris did not mention that House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Majority Leader John Boehner, Republican National Congressional Committee Chairman John Shimkus, and Rep. Rodney Alexander — all Republicans — knew about Foley’s contact with a former 16-year-old page nearly a year ago. “

Just today, the ultra-convservative Washington Times called on Speaker Dennis Haster to resign:

House Speaker Dennis Hastert must do the only right thing, and resign his speakership at once. Either he was grossly negligent for not taking the red flags fully into account and ordering a swift investigation, for not even remembering the order of events leading up to last week’s revelations—or he deliberately looked the other way in hopes that a brewing scandal would simply blow away. He gave phony answers Friday to the old and ever-relevant questions of what did he know and when did he know it? Mr. Hastert has forfeited the confidence of the public and his party, and he cannot preside over the necessary coming investigation, an investigation that must examine his own inept performance.