
Most of the time (99%) I do not agree with the rhetoric of the Democratic Party, and I am certainly no fan of Big Liberal Ted Kennedy. However, I just read a comment from a Republican congressman that disgusted me. In response to his defense of House Speaker Dennis Hastert's handling of the congressional page scandal, Republican Rep. Christopher Shays said no one died like in Chappaquiddick when Senator Ted Kennedy was involved. In The Hartford Courant he was quoted as saying, "I know the speaker didn't go over a bridge and leave a young person in the water, and then have a press conference the next day." He went on to add, "Dennis Hastert didn't kill anybody." First of all, in my opinion, if Hastert did know about Foley's propensity for sending sexually provacative e-mails and instant messages to underage male congressional pages, it IS as disturbing as leaving the scene of an accident, as did Kennedy in the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident. Secondly, I feel it is pathetic to defend someone using a reference to someone else's tragedy. Both incidents are tragic. Equally upsetting is why Shays compared the two: Last week Kennedy campaigned for Democrat Diane Farrell, who is locked in a bitter fight with Shays that could help determine whether Democrats recapture the House after 12 years of GOP control. In an interview with the AP, Farrell commented that Shays was "lashing out in anger", which is "symptomatic of Chris losing his composure in a tight race." Gotta love a campaign year!
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