mark foley

the gop knew that this was happening for years, and people where becoming genuinely upset with the death of habeous corpus, tortue, etc, so they needed someone to throw on the fire--with the increasing panic chamber of adolescent sex, and the raw homophobia of american media, meant that foley was a perfect scapegoat and they swung it in such a way that everyone is talking about foley the chickenhawk and no one (except susie bright) is talkign about bush the waterboarder.