"SpinDoctor, we need to replace the Foley immediately..."

It would be hard to imagine a ranker form of rank hypocrisy than that of Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.). Dude was a six-term GOP lapdog and chair of the House GOP Caucus (whatever that amounted to) on Missing and Exploited Children. Dude was Deputy Majority Whip for the GOP. Dude was cruising to re-election. And Dude had been widely looked to as the savior in the Florida Senate race to take the place of the laughably delicious Katherine Harris. But Dude liked having text-message sex (how lame is that...) with high school boys interning (rimshot!) as Congressional Pages. Maybe that's all. But because of my appreciation of the coffee and donut I just enjoyed, I won't bother describing the extent of the evidence already presented against Foley and just what he might have been doing otherwise. We'll all probably see enough of it in the weeks ahead to fill a season worth of AfterSchool Specials. So Foley ducked for cover and resigned smack dab on the DAY! the GOP Congressional re-election effort was supposed to change course substantially. They'd planned to run on Border security. On funding the military. On torturing the bloody stool out of terrorists. But certainly not on an alleged pedophile and member of the House Leadership's failed efforts to track down our exploited kids. Oh, and in case you think this whole Foley unsightly holy moly mess is just another outrage, need I remind you - this is about sex. Creepy, criminal, indefensible sex. Or the pursuit thereof. Past Pages are already coming out saying that they were specifically warned to stay as far afield from Foley as possible. Sure, sure - this might just be a blip on an already impossibly messy screen. Or, given a Party shift, so much more...

Hope your own moments of speculative outrage subside quickly beneath a flow of goshdarn fun this weekend. Rock on.