Foley Sex Scandal: Scarborough Weighs In

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Joe Scarborough, longtime friend of Mark Foley, wonders:

Reading the first set of e-mails made me uneasy. My friends who knew Mark and I got on the phone and wondered aloud why he would ask a high school kid for a picture . . .

See, that's the thing -- the first set of emails was enough to set off the alarm bells. When Tony Snow calls them "naughty emails," he's being disingenuous. Any of us would have felt a sickening sense of foreboding and done some more follow-up on that.

Where was the Republican leadership over the past year? They knew of Mark’s inappropriate e-mails to a former page but never informed Democratic leaders so they could warn those pages they had brought to Washington.

Never mind that the guy was the chair of the Missing and Exploited Childrens' Caucus. Jaysus!

How could the Speaker of the House not remember being told by the Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee that Foley had been confronted with his inappropriate emails to a male intern? Does this happen so often in Congress that it was no big deal to Denny Hastert?

Good question. Here's Hastert's response:

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