re: Foleygate
This attack on the Republican leadership, including Hastert, depends (like many such attacks) on the Democrats selling a lie, i.e. that the relatively innocuous, though inappropriate e-mails of the past year are the same as the explicit IM messages revealed only last week.
Details of the whole thing here.
Not defending Foley, who's a pervert. But the attempt to smear all the Republicans with this brush is dishonest.