This page was too funny, I couldn’t resist posting this.

Mark Foley at Scientology brunch.

So besides his “alcohol” problem, he also had a “Tom Cruise” problem?

H/T PeachPundit.

Speaker Dennis Hastert has stated he will not resign his speakership in response to the aforementioned Washington Times editorial. I, too, am critical of Hastert’s actions in this whole Foley mess, but in fairness here’s part of Hastert’s response:

Meeting with reporters Monday, Hastert said his aides and Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., heeded the wishes of the parents of the former House page, who wanted such questionable e-mails to stop but didn’t want the matter pursued. Shimkus and the House clerk told Foley last fall to cut off all communication with the former page, who lived in Louisiana.

Hastert says neither Shimkus nor his own aides saw the 2005 e-mail, noting that it was far less sexually explicit than the electronic messages that ABC News revealed last week.

“There wasn’t much there other than a friendly inquiry,” Hastert said of the 2005 message from Foley, R-Fla., described as “sick” by the boy. The message asked for a photograph and mentioned a different teen who was in “great shape.”

Hastert said neither he nor other GOP leaders were aware until last Friday of the reportedly far more lurid computer exchanges two years earlier between the Florida Republican and another page. He urged anyone with sexually graphic e-mails that preceded Foley’s resignation to contact authorities.

More from the FOXNews story.

Count on the Club for Growth to link to a short, but well-written, article debunking the “Bush’s tax cuts were for the rich” myth.

From the Union Leader:

The Bush tax cuts benefitted the rich at the expense of the poor, right?

Not at all.

A new analysis from the Tax Foundation concludes that the Bush tax cuts benefited all income groups. Everyone got a tax cut, and the biggest reduction fell to those making between $20,000 and $25,000 a year.

Those making between $75,000 a year and $5 million a year saw their percentage of the federal income tax burden rise, while those with incomes below $75,000 saw their share of the burden fall. Those making more than $5 million a year saw their share shrink slightly.

Middle-income earners would have seen an even larger tax cut had it not been for the Alternative Minimum Tax.

Families making between $15,000 and $25,000 got a larger tax cut, as a percentage of taxes paid, than those making more than $10 million a year. Families making between $20,000 and $25,000 got a 5 percent reduction in their tax bills, compared to 4.3 percent for those making $10 million a year or more.

The Tax Foundation analysis shows that the tax cuts benefitted all income groups. At the lowest levels, the tax cuts ended up removing millions of people from the tax rolls entirely.

What about the deficit? The tax cuts increased federal revenues. Had Washington not spent more than came in, there’d be no deficit.