The Washington Times gets it right, sort of
You know things are going bad for Republicans when the right-wing mouthpiece the Washington Times is calling for Hastert to resign. Although they minimize their calls for his resignation by claiming that this is not a "republican scandal", the impact of this could still be disastrous for GOP leadership. Here is the money quote:
Andrew Sullivan makes an interesting point:
House Speaker Dennis Hastert must do the only right thing, and resign his speakership at once. Either he was grossly negligent for not taking the red flags fully into account and ordering a swift investigation, for not even remembering the order of events leading up to last week's revelations -- or he deliberately looked the other way in hopes that a brewing scandal would simply blow away. He gave phony answers Friday to the old and ever-relevant questions of what did he know and when did he know it? Mr. Hastert has forfeited the confidence of the public and his party, and he cannot preside over the necessary coming investigation, an investigation that must examine his own inept performance.As if often the case, Drudge caught word of this first.
Andrew Sullivan makes an interesting point:
There is a very sick irony in the possibility that of all the issues that this Congress deserves rebuking on, they may end up being most damaged by coddling and protecting a sexually predatory creep.I couldn't agree more.
