Call for an Independent Investigation, Join McCain

On Tuesday Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) called for an independent investigation of the Foley scandal rocking the Republican party and the Congressional leadership. via ABC News;

In Michigan, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., broke from the Republican Party line and renewed a call for an independent investigation of the House page scandal. "We cannot tolerate the intolerable," McCain said, adding that congressional leadership should have called for an outside group of highly respected former congressmen to get to the bottom of inappropriate contact Foley may have had with pages and whether anyone in the House leadership erred by not doing something sooner about the problem.

Rep. Vito Fossella should come out and support this, instead of his "Stay the Course" the leadership did nothing wrong in covering Foley's matter attitude that he has. It isn't working in Iraq and it certainly is no way to handle this kind of abuse of minors. And if he needs another reason to have compassion and reason guide his actions there is this;

McCain's was not the only voice embattled Hastert may not have been happy to hear Tuesday. The Foley scandal continued to distract from issues the GOP leadership would rather control and has further instilled an impression that the House leadership tried to cover up Foley's behavior. In an ABC News poll released this week, 64 percent of those surveyed said they believed the GOP House leadership tried to cover up the Foley scandal...

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Hastert spent some of the day Tuesday meeting with evangelical leader K.A. Paul, founder of the Global Peace Initiative, who prayed with the speaker at Hastert's Plano, Illinois, home. Paul said he had hoped to convince the speaker to step down, since the Foley scandal had become such a distraction.