Alleged pervert resigns

Foley resigns from Congress over e-mails

WASHINGTON - Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record), R-Fla., abruptly resigned from Congress on Friday in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former teenage male page.

"I am deeply sorry and I apologize for letting down my family and the people of Florida I have had the privilege to represent," he said in a statement issued by his office.

His departure sent Republicans scrambling for a replacement candidate less than six weeks before midterm elections in which Democrats are making a strong bid to gain control of the House.

Foley's two-sentence statement gave no reason for Foley's decision to abandon a flourishing career in Congress. But several officials said the resignation had been prompted by the e-mails, and he took his action as fresh details emerged about electronic messages he had sent.

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Unlike our friends on the other side of the aisle, we do not believe that politics is Life.

That is the essential difference between "Conservatives" and "Liberals".

To us, Heaven comes later.

To them, Heaven can be created on Earth if only the "smart" people were put in charge.

Our willingness to cashier our malfeasors almost certainly owes to our belief that this World is just the beginning, that certain Truths transcend politics, that a Congressional majority cannot trump what is right.

We stand for something much larger and permanent and when you betray that "something", you are gone, regardless of how you vote.

We will not fight for you merely to retain a seat.

Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank and Robert Byrd would be private citizens if the other side held such principles.

It does not.