Bush Official Resigns Over Escort Links
Official Caught Using Escort Service Demanded Anti-Prostitution ‘Loyalty Oaths’
U.S. Foreign Aid Chief Resigns
Randy Tobias, Risky Sexual Behavior, and AIDS
ABC’s Ross: DC Madam’s List Includes White House & Pentagon Officials, Prominent Lawyers
Former U.S. AID director Randall Tobias, who resigned yesterday upon admitting that he frequented a Washington escort service, oversaw a controversial policy advocated by the religious right that required any US-based group receiving anti-AIDS funds to take an anti-prostitution “loyalty oath.” Aid groups bitterly opposed the policy, charging that it “was so broad ‚Äö√Ñ√Æ and applied even to their private funds ‚Äö√Ñ√Æ that it would obstruct their outreach to sex workers who are at high risk of transmitting the AIDS virus.” But President Bush wouldn’t budge. He signed a 2003 National Security Presidential Directive saying prostitution “and related activities” were “inherently harmful and dehumanizing.”
Hey, can you smell that?? Sniff…say, isn’t that the putrid stench of…rampant, self-righteous hypocrisy? Why…why, yes it is. I’d become so inured to it over the past six years, I almost didn’t recognize it. The same foul odor has emanated from the federal government since January, 2001, and I’d apparently grown accustomed to the stench.
Yep…smells like @$$- DUMB@$$, to be exact….
Welcome to yet another episode of “Family Values Republican Style”. For those of you who’ve grown tired of World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz thinking with the wrong head, I humbly offer Randall Tobias, who isn’t above bending over and grabbing his ankles for the Religious Right, even as he’s at the same time hypocritically engaging in the very behavior he publicly excoriates.
The truly sad and unforgivable aspect of Tobias’ DUMB@$$-worthiness is that his hypocrisy and pandering to Evangelical Social Conservative zealots is that it’s costing people in Third World countries their lives. But, hey…What Would Jesus Do? Well, if he’s any kind of Lord and Savior at all, He’d kick Tobias’ sorry, hypocritical ass.
Several groups and countries had their funding cut due to the policy. Brazil lost $40 million for “one of its most successful anti-AIDS strategies, persuading sex workers to use condoms or other measures to stop spreading the disease.”
During an “Ask the White House” online chat in 2004, Tobias defended the policy, saying the U.S. was “partnering with communities” to begin “fighting sex trafficking and prostitution, while still serving victims of these activities.” Tobias added that he was overseeing several “highly successful” relationship programs “aimed at men and boys to help them develop healthy relationships with women.”
A truly inspired idea, having someone who pays for “gals come over to the condo to give me a massage” run programs on developing “healthy relationships with women.”
Hmm…a high-ranking federal official, charged by the Religious Right King George the Worst © to fight prositution, sex trafficking and AIDS…USING PROSTITUTES? Well, sure…it was, uh, research! Yeah, research! How in the world can we expect Tobias to combat the scourge that is prostitution if he doesn’t do his “homework”? (Not that Tobias actually knew the names of any of his “masseuses”…”it was like orderding pizza.”
And if anyone believes that nothing but massages we’re involved, I’ve got a street in Baghdad that you could walk down unmolested (no doubt with Sen. John McCain (R-Cloud Cuckoo Land) at your side….).
