LaHood: Get Rid of Pages
The Washington Post has an article wherein columnist Harold Meyerson takes a dig at Congressman Ray LaHood's (R) suggestion that the congressional page system be abolished.
Am I understanding this politician correctly? Politician friend Foley gets in trouble for sexually soliciting a 16 year old Congressional page, and
this Republican Representative wants to abandon this 100 year old program of teaching our young people about the workings of our government?
Are Republicans now going to blame children for the actions of pedophiles? What's next? Locking victims of child abuse up for enticing pedophiles with their age? This is what I call sheer PANIC on the part of Republicans. Can we trust politicians who think like this with good governance?
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It does sound as if the alcoholics are attempting to clean all the alcohol out of the house to remove the temptation.
I do not recall any similar suggestions in regards to White House interns during the Clinton era scandal.
Maybe as Congressman Lahood looks at the history of politicians in all areas of government he is finding a need for this action.
The extreme application of this philosophy of treating the symptoms is to segregate children from adults on the off chance that an adult some where might engage in inappropriate behavior.
What type of message do we send to the world when we set up a system that shows that we do not trust our national leaders to protect our teenage sons and daughters in what should be a professional setting.
This is an excellent example of just how far down both parties have fallen.
Posted by: Brett Bumeter | October 4, 2006 11:09 AM
Thanks for taking the time to leave your thoughts, Brett.
The corruption and lack of responsibility is indeed bi-partisan. It is long past time for voters to clean Congress up in the only way possible, voting out the greedy, ineffective, incompetent, and party liners who fail to put our nation and its people first and foremost when it comes to drafting legislation and voting on it.
This whole omnibus bill and earmarks scandal that permits Congresspersons to hide legislation in other legislation and anonymously tack on billions and billions of pork spending without the public ever knowing - is a corruption both sides are playing to the hilt for all its worth. This is just one example.
Posted by: David R. Remer | October 4, 2006 11:55 AM
To be fair, LaHood is looking to protect the kids. I haven't heard a quote of his remarks yet, but, I am sure that was his motivation.
But, it begs the question, why remove our kids, rather than insure their protection on Capitol Hill? Still seems like backwards thinking to me.
Posted by: David R. Remer | October 4, 2006 12:29 PM