Not Again!

[KRAM1]

Here we go again...Congressman Eric Massa of NewYork (a democrat in a republican leaning district) said yesterday that he would not seek another term...cited health reasons. However, House ethics investigators are looking into alleged sexual harassment charges...male aide in question here.

What's with these guys????

We also have Charlie Rangel finally...FINALLY...stepping down from his leadership position due to continuing ethics investigations.

This is getting to be too much and it saddens me to no end to see this seemingly day after day parade of our senators and representatives with ethics charges and sexual "misadventures", etc., etc., etc. We really should see a higher level of ethics from these guys. Do they have absolutely no self-respect and do they really think they are above the law? It is truly a sad day. I care less that the latest two are democrats...they could have easily been Republicans. It is the fact that this stuff is going on at all...much less at the level it is.

Sad so very sad and it really does bother me. This is not what we should expect from the leaders of this great nation of ours.

[MeanGreenTexan]

You simply cannot trust politicians. Ever.

All politicians are for sale. Power will corrupt. These people are after one thing only... power. Regardless of which party you identify with, 99.9% of people who run for any kind of public office are power-hungry, untrustworthy, elitist a-holes with an almost non-existant desire to represent you or me.

Sorry for the rant... I promise I'll never comment on politics again! Have a nice day. Go Mean Green!

[SilverEagle]

This is from Wikipedia.

1983 congressional page sex scandal

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The 1983 Congressional Page sex scandal was a political scandal in the United States involving members of the United States House of Representatives.

On July 14, 1983 the House Ethics Committee recommended that Rep. Dan Crane (R-IL) and Rep. Gerry Studds (D-MA) be reprimanded for having engaged in sexual relationships with minors, specifically 17-year-old congressional pages.[1] Washington, D.C., law specifies an age of consent of 16, meaning that the relationships were legal;[2] however the committee felt "any sexual relationship between a member of the House of Representatives and a congressional page, or any sexual advance by a member to a page, represents a serious breach of duty." The Congressional Report found that in 1980, a year after entering office, Crane had sex four or five times at his suburban apartment with a female page and in 1973, the year he entered office, Studds invited a male page, who testified he felt no ill will towards Studds, to his Georgetown apartment and later on a two-week trip to Portugal. Both representatives admitted to the charges.[3]

On July 20, 1983, the House voted by a supermajority to revise the reprimand recommendation to censure, a more extreme measure. Censure had never previously been used in a case of sexual misconduct. The motion to censure the two House members was introduced by Rep. Robert H. Michel (R-IL), the Republican House Minority Leader. Aides later said that Michel proposed this bill to head off a move by Republicans to expel the two legislators.[4] Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-GA) was one of the leaders of the calls for the expulsion of Crane and Studds.[5]

At the beginning of the debate, Rep. Crane said, "I want the members to know I am sorry and that I apologize to one and all." When he was called to be censured, Rep. Crane stood facing the House. According to The New York Times, after the censure was read, Mr. Crane, escorted by a friend, quickly left the chamber.[4] However, an Associated Press article says that Crane walked back to his seat in the rear of the House and slumped in it.[6] In 1984, Rep. Crane won the GOP primary but lost the general election.[7]

Studds gave up his right to a public hearing reluctantly, saying that he objected to the conclusions of the Ethics Committee but wanted to protect the privacy of the pages involved[8] and that that the affair was a "mutually voluntary, private relationship between adults."[8] At the same time, Studds did admit to "a very serious error in judgment," saying that he should not have had sex with a congressional subordinate, regardless of the individual's age or sex.[3] As his censure was read, Studds faced the Speaker who was reading the motion, with his back to the other House members.[4] Studds continued to be re-elected until his retirement in 1997[7]; he died in 2006.[9]

Shortly after this scandal, the House Page Board was established for the purpose of protecting pages.

This has to be one of the saddest statements about our government that I've ever read. We had to set up a commission to help protect pages from congress?!?!?

[UNT90]

I guess when you have a staff of 50 some odd people (??) constanly telling you how great and important you are, people giving you money for just being you, and a political party that makes you feel important to get your vote on every issue, you begin to think that you are not only above the law, but above the common decency and morality from which you were raised. A sad commentary indeed, but not necessarily specific to politics (see: Tiger Woods).

I would love to see a 1 term limit (House, Senate, and President) with congressional staff capped at 10 people. This would kill lobbiest, shorten every single piece of legislation to where the American people could read it online (no huge staff to decipher the 3000000000 page bill), make every piece of legislation better, and much better assure that your congressman was working for you.

[EagleMBA]

My two cents:

Greater scrutiny and analysis of the SUBSTANCE of what these people spout off when they are campaigning.

More visibility as to how they actually perform once they are on the job.

Term limits!!! Two terms MAXIMUM.

Requirement as to minimum number of days per session ON THE JOB, in their office, at their desk, etc.

Requirement as to minimum number of days to be spent IN THEIR DISTRICTS and available to constituents.

More regulation of THEM would cut down on the number of good-time Charlies that make it to Washington to "serve".

[eeally]

I woule be worried if my congressman did not want to have sex!

I voted for Palin because she looked like a nice woman with some charm and sex appeal.

Sex is fun especially if you do it right!!!!

Who cares who has sex with who... I mean really!

Go Tiger

[CaribbeanGreen]

I woule be worried if my congressman did not want to have sex!

I voted for Palin because she looked like a nice woman with some charm and sex appeal.

Sex is fun especially if you do it right!!!!

Who cares who has sex with who... I mean really!

Go Tiger

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