Perhaps it will be better for the Democrats if he doesn't resign. His refusal to take responsibility and his attempts to shift blame onto others makes the Republican party look immoral and corrupt.
Amusing commentary:
Republicans liberal with sex-case blame
"House members who had had misgivings about Mr Foley blamed the leadership. John Boehner, the majority whip, manfully stepped up to the plate - and said it was all the fault of Dennis Hastert, the Republican Speaker of the House. Mr Hastert, in a brave display of personal responsibility, went cap in hand to the American people - and said the Democrats were to blame: they had deliberately held off on releasing the emails until they knew it would cause maximum political damage in next month's elections.
Now the Republicans, who coached the country through the great moral crisis of the Clinton presidency by promising to restore the virtues of individual morality, are in full blame-apportioning fury...
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Whether this incident will so repel voters that they will turf the Republicans out is now the main topic in Washington. But in a sense the true lesson of this story is that, whatever happens at the mid-term elections, it further emphasises how detached from their political, cultural and moral moorings Republicans have become.
Republicans came to power in Congress 12 years ago to complete the conservative revolution begun by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. But a decade or more later the Republicans are, like the pigs in Animal Farm, barely distinguishable from the rulers and the governing values they displaced. They have come, not only to tolerate big government, but to enthusiastically accept and garnish it, dispensing large public programs in health, education and domestic security with a verve that makes their Democratic forebears look miserly.
Republicans have embraced a corrupt culture of swapping dubious legislation to favour special-interest groups for large campaign donations. This is often done in hidden clauses in bills, reminding us too that, as someone once said, in Washington the truth is merely another special interest, and a not particularly well-financed one at that. Worse still, a number of Republicans have enriched themselves personally through accepting bribes.
It is in this context that the moral failings of the Foley scandal need to be considered. Having buried the conservative virtues of small government, honesty and truth beneath an avalanche of self-serving, self-aggrandising big government liberalism, they have finally embraced the last defence of the moral liberal - "I cannot tell a lie: someone else did it..."
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