Did you notice those emails were dated 2005? Do you suppose he did quit? Do you suppose that is the last of them, or do you think there might be some more recent ones.
And you're right: that's weak as hell.
After Hastert's temper tantrum over Jefferson I can't dig deep enough to try to rationalize this one away for him. If he knew this was going on he too should, at the very least, step down as speaker.
I think it would be a safe bet he's talked like that alot online. I read the IMs posted elsewhere. He was talking freely like we're talking here. The bit about the boy having to interrupt the dirty talk because his mother was calling him just adds to the creepiness.
If the first e-mail (the one we were talking about last night) was all they knew about, it's creepy but not so creepy that you might force someone to resign.
But if the behavior was bad enough that pages were warned, that indicates something more that was known.
If a warning was given to all pages, what's the chance that there weren't also a boatload of dems who knew too?
If the dems don't make their members resign, do we make ours?