Correction: Republicans Are Not All On The Same Page

Hastert lashes out at anything that wiggles: "'The people who want to see this thing blow up,' he said, 'are ABC News and a lot of Democratic operatives, people funded by George Soros,' a major contributor to liberal causes. 'I saw Bill Clinton's adviser Richard Morris was saying these guys knew about this all along.'... Hastert offered no proof for his assertions, and Democrats called them absurd and laughable..."

...and the facts have their own agenda...

"... a 26-year-old Atlanta man says Foley began sending him sexually suggestive messages and invited him to his Washington home after he served as a congressional page nine years ago. Tyson Vivyan said Foley began sending him online instant messages a month or two after his nine-month stint as a page ended in June 1997. Foley entered Congress in January 1995.

Vivyan's account appears to show the earliest exchange of suggestive messages reported so far between Foley and former pages. Vivyan said he played along at first, thinking it was someone he knew. After weeks of peppering the anonymous message sender with questions, he said he figured out who it was and refused to engage in the sexual banter that Foley tried to instigate.

'I had absolutely no sexual interest in him. He was a man twice my age,' said Vivyan, who added: 'I don't call my self gay, I don't call myself straight.'

Vivyan, who is divorced, said he found the congressman's behavior 'morally reprehensible' but tried to maintain a platonic professional relationship in which they talked about legislation and 'votes on the Hill.'"