Seems like you are repeating the Dem's spin.
Here is what we now know:
The FBI & the newspapers who saw the emails thought they were 'over friendly' but not 'criminal'.
The parents didn't want the story to be made public. The Republican leadership followed their request.
Hastert learned pf the salacious IMs only last week and Foley was immediately asked to resign.
And just tonight, due to a computer glich, we have learned the name of the source of the IMs and that he was over 18 during the exchanges.
Is that your standard? Criminality? I'm a moral values type Republican. I have higher standards. Foley didn't deserve to be in the House. Are you saying that since there may not be a crime, Foley should still be in the House??
The parents didn't want the story to be made public. The Republican leadership followed their request.
So what? The parents shouldn't be able to control this. Besides, I would have been happy if the leadership quietly showed Foley the door. They could have said any other punishment should be left to the authorities.
Hastert learned pf the salacious IMs only last week and Foley was immediately asked to resign.
Of course Hastert didn't even try to investigate the matter more deeply. We'll never know if the IMs would have been discovered earlier if Hastert had done the right thing. If Hastert tried and failed, I wouldn't be nearly so upset.
And just tonight, due to a computer glich, we have learned the name of the source of the IMs and that he was over 18 during the exchanges.
Splitting hairs. I didn't care that Monica Lewinsky was of age. Foley was doing these things to people over which he had some degree of authority. Personally, I think it was wrong regardless of the age of the kids/adults. (ABC reports the IMs were sent both before and after the 18th birthday.)