Weldon's Friends in Congress

Last week, Curt Weldon was shamed into returning $1,000 contributed to his campaign by fellow former GOP Congressman, and longtime child predator, Mark Foley. According to Philly Inquirer:

The Weldon camp returned Foley's check Friday morning, campaign chairman Mike Puppio said. But it won't be returning party leaders' contributions. Puppio called that request a "ridiculous" stunt.

Why shouldn't Weldon accept money from the very GOP House leaders, like Dennis Hastert, that turned a blind eye to Mark Foley abuses? By those standards, Weldon has no need to worry that these GOP leaders will ever reactivate the defunct House Ethics Committee and look into any of Curt's dealings. How could Curt maintain his position among the Top 20 Most Corrupt Congressman if the GOP leadership engaged in any actual enforcement of the law?

These are the same guys voting for torture and against the Geneva Conventions. To these guy, the abuses at Abu Ghraib were a minor speed bump on the road to freedom.

This past Saturday, fellow rabid Republican and WMD fiasco denier Santorum was with Weldon:

The Delaware County Republican Party hosted Saturday’s "meet and greet" event for Santorum, the Butler County native elected to the Senate in 1994 at 36. Santorum, whose race against Democrat Bob Casey Jr. has gained national attention, spoke to the crowd about immigration and national security, saying he is against amnesty for illegal immigrants and in support of President Bush’s controversial efforts to tap domestic phone lines and ignore the rules of interrogation outlined in the Geneva Convention. Santorum spoke for about 10 minutes. Weldon spoke twice as long, with sharp words and plenty of volume, urging the crowd to volunteer for the campaign and reminding them the election this year will not be won without a fight.

This is different from the Abramoff situation. In that case, Weldon took $2000 in exchange for his vote and waited 2 1/2 years until the day Abramoff pleaded guilty before parting with the money (only to have it replenished the next day by a local contributor).

So, exactly WHY did Weldon have to return money from Mark Foley anyway?
What did Weldon do to earn $1,000 in the first place?

Clearly, Mark Foley must have preferred Weldon over Sestak. Foley felt this strongly enough to send $1,000 Curt's way to help.
But what does Curt do? He cuts-and-runs from another GOP leader in trouble, just like he cut and ran from Abramoff and then Bush at the beginning of the campaign.

Bush has the worst Secretary of Defense in US history, but Bish sticks to his "strong, but wrong" philosophy and backs Rumsfeld to the hilt. Even Santorum says Rumsfeld's doing "a fine job".

Weldon instead chooses to stay weak, but wrong as he abandons his ideological and political birds of a feather and blows with the wind in his desperate efforts to retain his House seat. Heckuva job, Curt!