I Know You Are But What Am I

by digby

I just heard two wingnut congressmen on Hardball advance the new GOP talking points and they are doozies:

“The issue is not Denny Hastert. The only issue now is what did the Democratic leadership know and when did they know it? Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emmanuel need to go under oath before the ethics committee and clear their names.”

It’s such a wild Hail Mary that you almost have to admire it.

Here’s more on this:

House Republicans sought to put Democrats on the defense over the Foley House page scandal Friday, asking House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Illinois, to appear before the House Ethics Committee investigating the matter.

Vice Chairman of the Republican Conference Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Georgia, along with several of his GOP colleagues, said the page scandal “should not be a partisan issue,” in a letter to the top Democrats.

“Just as it must be determined whether any Republican Members or political operatives were aware of and attempted to conceal Mr. Foley’s activities, it must also be determined whether any Democrat Members or political operatives were aware of, and attempted to conceal these same activities,” Kingston wrote in the letter.

(This reminds me of a post I did a long time ago called “Projection Politics.”)

I’m listening to Chris Cannon on CNN now try to explain why he said that the “kids are precocious.” As he digs himself ever deeper with this “hoax” excuse, he seems to be saying that kids “know more today” and that parents should help them understand what their boundries are. I love Republican moralists, don’t you? The precocious kids are the ones who should be taught to draw the line. What more can you do?

Meanwhile, Cannon is hedging on Hastert — it’s “highly premature” to suggest that he should resign. Oh my.

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