This is Going to Get Worse Before it Gets Better

Let's start with the facts; Mark Foley is a mentally incompetent human being to be engaging in behavior that endangers children; even more so that, like so many others, he abused a position of respect and authority to do it.

The drumbeat for Speaker Hastert to step aside, which he should have done in May with the last criminal activity he interjected himself in.

GOP insiders are trying to push that this was a Democratic hit job, and while it is possible, which really justifies none of the fact that it seems that Foley did it and that GOP leadership knew about it.

Now, the Democrats are naturally turning their guns on the entire GOP. But they need to watch out. It seems like when sex scandals pop up, they tend to pop up in droves. Who is going to be the Dan Crane to Foley's Gerry Studds?

Republican leadership should have dealt with this in a responsible manner because it was the morally correct thing to do. Now, once again, the media gets to have a feeding frenzy on something not related to the issues.