The link below speaks volumes about whether there was an attempt to keep the scandal about Rep. Mark Foley and a teenage male page under wraps:
The White House is opposing an independent investigation and praising the House Republican’s handling of it.
PREDICTION: This November a lot of independent voters are likely to cast protest votes to ensure that one party rule — not “government” because what we’re increasingly seeing is more like “rule,” unlike anything we have seen in decades — ends and that the United States goes back to vigorous checks and balances…the kind that can only be obtained when party does not control all three branches of government. And, we predict, a lot of Republicans who don’t believe in tossing away principles and values will make sure they go to the polls to cast protest votes, too. It’s time to clean House.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.