Kelly Moore was I not just saying this to you last night?

Of course Glenn Greenwald says it better:

The perfection of this scandal lies in its substance, not its theatrics. The Foley scandal is not -- as even some Bush opponents have asserted -- an aberrational, isolated, inconsequential melodrama that is unrelated to the substantive and important critiques of the Bush movement and which just coincidentally emerged as a cynical weapon that can be used to defeat the Republicans. The opposite is true. This scandal has resonated so powerfully because it is shining such a powerful light on the towering hubris, utter lack of intellectual and ethical integrity, and deeply engrained corruption that accounts for virtually every other Bush disaster -- from Iraq to law-breaking scandals to torture to Abrahmoff-type corruption schemes and everything in between...

In that regard, this scandal is like the Cliffs' Notes version of a more complicated treatise on how the Bush movement operates. Every one of their corrupt attributes is vividly on display here:
The absolute refusal ever to admit error. The desperate clinging to power above all else. The efforts to cloud what are clear matters of wrongdoing with irrelevant sideshows. And the parade of dishonest and just plainly inane demonization efforts to hide and distract from their wrongdoing: hence, the pages are manipulative sex vixens; a shadowy gay cabal is to blame; the real criminals are those who exposed the conduct, not those who engaged in it; liberals created the whole scandal; George Soros funded the whole thing; a Democratic Congressman did something wrong 23 years ago; one of the pages IM'd with Foley as a "hoax", and on and on.

I realized this same thing the night before last. At first I felt kind of frustrated that destroying the Constitution was not enough to get the country outraged, but this scandal was. Then I realized it is all part of the same corruption. These guys thought they could do whatever the hell they wanted to do and they would hold on to power forever. Suckers. Steve Gillard writes:

They think they can play the same games they did with the Wilsons or John Kerry, and this is a whole different league. The personal is political and there is no more personal issue than being the victim of a child sex predator.

People need to understand something: it is only a matter of time before one page pops up with a lawyer and says he was one of Foley's lovers. (emphasis mine) He's gonna have gifts and some kind of hotel key or something, maybe a detailed recounting of a sex session.

While Hastert and friends are chasing ghosts, they have no idea of the monster bearing down on them. It is their own Katrina and they are just as prepared. Foley is a sick motherfucker, he's been working on kids since 1995, I cannot imagine he didn't get lucky at least once. And if he did, the GOP thought they had problems this week. They don't know from problems.