Foley More than Just a Local Scandal

This Foley-page abuse scandal is going to be big. There are now reports coming out (on CNN.com and NPR) that Republican House leaders, including Speaker of the House Hastert and Majority Leader Boehner knew about Foley's behavior months before the story broke and covered it up!! NPR reported this morning that some of them may have known as long as a year. If these leads turn to out to be true it would be an unbelievable abuse of power, and even more morrally bankrupt than is usual even for this Republican leadership!

This is the only kind of abuse of power, by the way, that Republican voters will actually hold their candidates accountable for. I sincerely wish this had not happened, for the young pages' sake if nothing else. But if this is what it takes for this morrally bankrupt party to be pushed from power, I'll take it!