Foley Folly E-mail Scandal

The FBI is assessing whether former Rep. Mark Foley broke any laws when he sent sexually explicit e-mails to a male teen-age congressional page and leaders of both parties demanded full-scale investigations into another scandal for the Republicans.

Foley, 52, a six-term Florida Republican, resigned on Friday after ABC News reported he sent messages containing references to sexual organs and acts to current and former congressional pages.

The scandal, breaking just weeks before the November 7 election to determine control of Congress, has shaken Republicans who often accuse the Democrats of being weak on moral issues.

Foley was chairman of the House caucus on missing and exploited children, and the author of the key sexual predator provisions of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, which President George W. Bush signed in July.

Top House Republicans acknowledged on Saturday that they had been aware of e-mail traffic between Foley and a former teen-age page, but that they were not aware of the sexually explicit messages to other pages revealed last week.

"Family Values," being the words republicans have used to win elections for 6 years now, I just wonder when are they going to start living by the words they preach.