Republicans new alibi: "Gay Cabal" shielded Foley

Earlier this week I suggested that Republicans were trying to divert attention away from their coverup of Foley's disgusting behavior by gay-bashing, essentially blaming the whole thing on the Democrats' tolerance of homosexuality.

Now that the strategy has failed, they've taken a different tack -- they have tied these two threads together and are suggesting that a "gay cabal" sought to shield Mark Foley from the authorities. That'll fire up the base! This has Karl Rove's fingerprints all over it.

And you know what's distressing? Katie Couric and CBS News have apparently bought the story at retail.

This will cloud the issue by throwing fear, uncertainty and doubt into the minds of whatever Republican loyalists are still sympathetic to the leadership of this corrupt, rubber-stamp Republican Congress.