The Republican Controlled Glass House

Capitol Hill and the country was obsessed this week with the Mark Foley page boy scandal.

Like this author and this one I'm fascinated by the double standard. But I'm fascinated for a slightly different reason.

I find it curious the Democrats are saying that the Republicans failed to protect the pages.

I agree that the Republicans failed to protect the pages, and they tote themselves as the "party of moral values", so this is doubly bad.

However the Democrats failed to protect the pages back during the Gerry Studds scandal, who received standing ovations during his censuring before the house.

Not only are the Democrats basically admitting they failed in the same way, the Democrats have never shown any remorse for applauding Gerry Studds, man who didn't just try to seduce the pages with missives, but actually got at least one of them drunk in order to get him in bed. That seduction strategy is often called "date rape" in court nowadays especially when it is between a workplace superior and subordinate.

Now that a similar events creeps out of the closet across the aisle, it's a huge, perhaps criminal, failure according to the Dems.

The Donkeys are playing both sides of the fence. They can right now and they have probably just succeeded in securing both houses in November with this October surprise. But I wonder if they will regret it.

There's an old saying that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, and I think a Mount Rushmore sized boulder just crashed through the Capitol Rotunda.

Time will tell, but I personally think both parties are about to have a massive eruption of outing of both straight and gay congressmen and women having extra-marital affairs with the teenagers and young adults of Washington, D.C.

As they say, power corrupts absolutely...