Congressman Mark Foley

It angers me to no end that Congressman Mark Foley (R-Florida), and co-chairman of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, is involved in this latest cyberspace scandal. The very idea that not only a Congressman, but one who claimed to be protecting children as the co-chairman of the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, could send these vile messages to an underage boy, makes me want to heave. I don't care if he's a Democrat, Republican, married, gay, white, black, Christian or whatever, he is nothing more than another Mark Karr. And as vile as Mark Karr is, at least he didn't hold public office.

And when the heat is on, what does he do? He checks himself into a rehab clinic, as if that will explain away his reprehensible behavior.

And if anyone—and I do mean anyone—knew of this and didn't do anything about it, they, too, should be held accountable. The very idea that these predators can hold themselves out to be other than the scum they are is disgusting. I say dump him out of Congress and prosecute him as you would the other sexual predators.

I am sick of hearing about teachers, preachers, lawyers, congressmen---people who have access to our most valuable resource, our children—using their authority and power to satisfy their own sick urges.