This morning's Washington Times.

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.

Some Democrats are attempting to make this "a Republican scandal," and they shouldn't. Democrats have contributed more than their share of characters in the tawdry history of congressional sexual scandals. Sexual predators come in all shapes, sizes and partisan hues, in institutions within and without government. When predators are found they must be dealt wtih forcefully and swiftly.

Right on, debbyski!!!

I have to say that I am really puzzled by all this.

First, I don't care for Hastert, so I wouldn't mind seeing him replaced, but from all I've heard and read about this issue, I don't really see what he could have done based on the information that he had, spread out in sporadic bits over a few years, none of which had the damning evidence contained in the IMx of which he only after-the-fact, so to speak, became aware.

Am I missing something?