The spin cycle of deflected blame, Courtesy of the pants-pissing GOP & Co.

I'm dizzy. Trying to keep track of all the spinning the GOP and its MSM affiliates is becoming nearly impossible. We all knew it was inevitable that the right would try to "skew" the Foley scandal to try to make it look less damning. Here are the pathetic and grotesquely LOW attempts to do so:

From Crooks And Liars:

See anything wrong with this graphic? The O'Reilly Factor ran it in not one, but two segments and posted it three times. I can understand if FOX and The Factor made an error the first time, but to post it repeatedly should be a firing offense, The most watched show on FOX News has now labeled the former Republican Congressman Mark Foley, who is in the middle of a sexual predator scandal that has Hastert's career on the ropes —a Democrat. Was it an error or done by choice? I report–you decide.

Un-fucking-believable. Shill O'Lielly is such a sneaky scumbag.

Then there was Hannity, claiming Monica Lewinsky was 19 when she had her affair with Clinton, which isn't true (she was 22 and a college grad). I'm sure there won't be a correction for that on FauxNews either.

Now there are rightwing Christofundy whackos trying to equate pedophilia with homosexuality so they can revile gay people even more than they already do.

Then there is this asshat who has said he's going to "out" one of Foley's victims today at 4 P.M. Yesterday, the quite insane and demented Katherine Harris tried to insinuate that the Democrats were involved without any proof whatsoever pointing in their direction, and then there is the strange press conference Reynolds held, surrounded by kids, wherein he threw Hastert under the bus o' blame.

I cringed when I read about the utterly embarassing I'm-just-a-poor-alcoholic/I-was-abused-by-a-Catholic-Priest ruse that Foley's dimwitted attorney (or Foley) came up with. Apparently, if you were abused as a child and have a drinking problem, you are no longer responsible for your actions. If only that were the case in real life, right?

The party of "Family Values" (which should really be the party of "no personal responsibility")isn't fooling the public anymore with its baseless self-righteous, holier-than-thou message. It's corrupt, it's scrambling to save face, and it's failing miserably.

Of course, this is only the tip of the iceberg. Foley adamantly claims he's never had physical contact with any pages and I seriously doubt that's the case. You don't just email for years without any payoff. In any case, that's my prediction.