Dane, you are being full of crap. They knew there was a problem. Firstly, it's been an open secret in Washington for YEARS, that Foley is gay. I knew about him being outed at least 2 years ago.
The House Leadership gets a hold of Foley emailing 16 year old male pages, in creepy conversations. They sit on it for a year. You equate this to Osama's mother psychically knowing to abort her son because 45 years later she would know he would be a terrorist.
Give it up. They screwed up. Have you given one thought to the fact that there might be more pages this year since they sat on their hands? The house is not that important to me, that we can let pedophiles slide. It obviously is more important to you, and to Hastert too.
Uh no DUmmies like you are full of crap, such as criticizing the GOP for booting foley, while democrats such as barney franlk and ted kennedy keep their positions of power and prestige, and you never sya a word about that.
And, as I said, the history is that exploited children become exploiters themselves-- so even if there were not any more pages exploited the ones who had been will likely exploit other children.