This is just a heads-up or perhaps an editorial note about what might be coming down the pike.
There have been a number of signals through the course of the day that the last gambit of the GOP House leadership will be to blame the Foley debacle on a cabal of gay staffers who hid and/or enabled Rep. Foley’s behavior for years. The idea being that they are to blame rather than the leadership.
That may sound like a plot turn out of a bad novel. But with the times we’re living in I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.
Fordham, the staffer who just turned on Hastert, is openly gay, as is at least one other central player in the drama. Fordham’s word now threatens to take down the whole House leadership. So they’re going to throw everything at him.
As an editor, this sort of stuff is always complicated to deal with. You don’t want to preview the hideous slur or give it publicity when you’re trying to warn readers of what the wounded animal is capable of as it fights for its life. But I think the better part of wisdom in this case is to put the effort before people rather than let it bubble out only in the campaign of whispers and acidy newspaper columns. David Corn has some of the best details.
