You totally miss the point. The big issue that cannot be ignored is that the drive by media is making a charge of systematic and party-wide corruption of this. The issue they're bringing forward is:
What did the Republican leadership know, and when did they know it?
Hastert says he was told of the emails only, Foley said it was taken out of context and he didn't mean anything bad by it, Hstert told Foley to knock it off, Foley said Yessir, and that was it.
Now various groups, some attributing to themselves a conservative label, are calling on Hastert and other top Republicans to themselves resign over this. Further investigation by real conservative bloggers found that several of these so-called groups are actually democratic organizations (one, American Family Voices, is run by current Hillary Clinton and ex-Clinton White House staffer Mike Lux), and that the media knew of the IM's long beofre the House Republican leadership did, and are sandbagging them about it now, deliberately confusing the emails that were known with the IMs that were not known by the House leadership.
If you think Republicans can just move on from that without fighting back then you must truly think they are the Stupid Party.
lol. that's a new one. I heard hastert's statement on the radio...sounded right to me. It's the talk radio/blogosphere losing their marbles.