Ah, Schadenfreude!

Maybe you come home grumpy the day after the Senate follows the House in approving El Presidente Bush's torturer-in-chief amnesty, Geneva Convention flaunting, habeas corpus suspending bill, wondering how such villainous scoundrels and their syco-court are managing to gut our United States Constitution like aggressive hookies from Civics class. Maybe you're justified. Maybe it's been a long week, not as much sleep as you'd like, and you're all Oscar the Grouch.

Then maybe you read all about GOP family values, about a Congressman from Florida (Governor Jeb Bush, El President's brother) named Mark Foley, a courageous fighter against...uh...sex in videogames...by day, only to find out by night he's...he's...he's...Maf54:

Maf54: You in your boxers, too?
Teen: Nope, just got home. I had a college interview that went late.
Maf54: Well, strip down and get relaxed.

Another message:

Maf54: What ya wearing?
Teen: tshirt and shorts
Maf54: Love to slip them off of you.

And this one:

Maf54: Do I make you a little horny?
Teen: A little.
Maf54: Cool.

Yep, a genuine Republican hypocrisy-laden underage gay sex scandal.

Okay, but he's just 1 member of 435, a tiny percentage of that noble body. Maybe a little satisfaction, a quick smile, but what could possibly make it full-blown "pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune"?

The entire GOP House leadership knew. It's known possibly as long as 10 or 11 months.

That's Tom Delay successor House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH).

That's Dennis Hastert (R-IL), the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Kinda reminiscent of another scandal where the sanctimonious high-ranking hypocrites knew but didn't act, to their own eventual destruction.

Hey, gotta ask...did Karl Rove know? RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman?

If this story has legs, then mmm, schadenfreude. The top GOP Congressional figures knew they had what appears to be a homosexual predator on their hands, and they did nothing for almost a year?

Spin that, bitch.