FBI unable to connect Foley to sex with underaged pages

Not that this excuses the behavior of former congressman Mark Foley, but the FBI investigation has yet to turn up a single case of sexual contact between Foley and an underaged page.

Democrats- desperate to avoid the stigma of their obvious hypocrisy in trying to exploit the Foley affair while forgetting their own failure to deal with the late Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Mass), who did have sex with an underaged page and was allowed to remain as a member of a Democratically-controlled House anyway (and a defiant member at that)- seem unable to recognize the fundamental and rather telling distinction between consensual sex among adults and sex between and adult and a person beneath the legal age of consent.

Again, this does not excuse or minimize Foley's sleazy emails to underage pages. But it does create quite a glaring contrast between even the worst case scenario regarding the Republican leadership's handling of the Foley affair and the far more represensible failure of the Democrats to act decisively in the face of the sexual exploitation of a minor- something which nobody has been able to establish ever happened in the Foley case.

HT: Drudge

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