Representative Foley

Well it looks like my earlier assessment of Represenative Foley might have come across too harshly. I'm the first one to admit when I am wrong, as does appear the case here. Granted I didn't come out and say it, but I thought that the page involved was 16 years old at the time of the instant messages, which made me think that Foley was a pedophile. Turns out, the page was 18 years old.

Now many of you might think; what do 2 years really mean? It means everything. It means the difference between two consenting adults having a conversation and a crime being commited. Now, the conversation was inappropriate and it did warrant Foley's resignation, but if the page was 18 at the time of the instant messages, there's nothing else to be said about the matter. Regardless of if the man is gay, which I could care less about, it all boils down to an inappropriate conversation that cost a man his job.