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Welcome to the United States where nothing sells better than sex.

Congressman Walter Jones also supported the name change...but now he regrets it, since he believes the war was a mistake.

American politics is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway were thieves and pimps run free, and good men lie like dogs. There is also a negative side

Americans are more shocked by sex (one only wonders where all these evangelical children come from) than they are in bribery and chicanery among Rebublicans. As one Pentecostal said, God is only interested in the "evils" of homosexuality and abortion--nothing else matters.

Speaking as an American, writing from a suburb of Boston Massachusetts, USA, may I point out that the Mr. Foley's actions constituted solicitation of underage children for sex, and long-term sexual harrassment of underage children: the congressional page program is one for juniors in high school. Thus a Republican cover-up, if any, may well be actionable.

This is not just about Mr. Foley's private life, or about the fact that he is gay. Were this to occur in British politics, I expect and hope it would be given similar headlines by the 91Èȱ¬.

Further, many of us who are tired and sickened by the Rebublican party's endless harping on the evils of homesexuality, the party's unscientific and dangerous promotion of abstinence-only sex education, attempts to bar HPV vaccination as encouraging underage sex, so-called "family values", excessive pursuit of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, etc., etc., see the revelations about Mr. Foley, a Republican who very much ran on such politicial platforms, as public notice that the emperor has no clothes.

Ironically, Mr. Foley may be prosecutable under laws which he himself supported in Congress.

As for our priorities, looking at the New York Times' most popular US stories right now, I see that Bill Nye's guilty plea ranks third on the most-emailed list, with news about Mr. Foley nowhere. The Foley scandal comes on top of the Abramhoff scandal; it does not eclipse it.

Your front page link to this piece calls Ney a "victim". That's an interesting take on the affair.

The statement proclaiming the criminal conduct of republican Congressman Bob Ney to somehow have been a "victim" of his own corruption sounds more like the cheap sensationalist tabloid propaganda of the U.S. corporate media rather than professional investigative journalism.
While it is true that people seem to be more interested in the sexual misconduct of politicians than subversive criminal misbehavior, the media also bears some responsibility for this infatuation.

United Banana Republics of the Americas...

The really sad aspect of this is how many other politicians 'appeared' shocked and were critical of their colleagues actions. As if this does not normally happen!!!

Every single politician in DC is on this sort of 'take' and the whole lobbyists system is a legalized base for out and out corruption.

Conspiciously absent from the Bob Ney 91Èȱ¬page and his Biography page is any mention of the political party he represents.

Is he is too ashamed to identify himself as a republican, or is he so slimey as to hope that people vote for a recognizable name out of confusion?

No one should vote for someone who won't identify himself for whom he claims a political party affiliation.

Unbelievable.