Does this Make Sense?

Let's put this whole thing in context. We now learn that in 2004, Foley's cheif of staff told very senior people in Hastert's Office that Foley was getting too close to pages. If you're Speaker Hastert and somebody comes to you in 2005 with some e-mails asking male pages for pictures of yourself, wouldn't you think, "hey - based on what I heard a year ago, this is a problem."

For whatever reason, either the information never got to him or he wanted to protect the Republican seat or he just didn't think to do anything about it, it's pretty clear now that Hastert really dropped the ball. There is literally no way that he will survive this - I give it less than 48 hours.

For what it's worth, I've met Hastert, and he seems like a decent guy. I really do hate to see this kind of thing hapenning to anyone, but I don't hate it as much as I hate powerful people thinking they don't have the same accountability for their mistakes as the rest of the world does.