House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican, should do two things today: Remove his fingers from his ears, and then resign from Congress. His inept, arrogant conduct after it was revealed Rep. Mark Foley had sent lurid e-mails to teen-age House of Representative pages shows Hastert isn’t fit to sit in the Capitol. Hastert has accepted responsiblity for the scandal. That’s fine; but that’s not enough. Foley fled into the temporary anonymity of alcoholic rehabilitation. Then he claimed he is gay. Then he claimed to have been molested as a child, apparently by a nondenominational clergyman. Some people emerge honestly from the closet – others are pushed. Foley was fired from a rocket launcher. It may have been that Foley was the chosen sacrifice: That GOP leaders ordered him to jump the cliff in hopes...
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