Calling for Speaker Hastert's Resignation

The House Republicans have shown that they can be just as morally and ethically bankrupt as Bill Clinton was in his acts that initiated the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Bill Clinton had an affair with a White House intern, an employee of the White House that worked for him. Regardless of the morality of having an affair, his conduct would have been treated as sexual harassment in any corporation in the country.

Now House Republicans have two lightening rods to deal with in their own ranks and own bankrupt actions. Congressman Foley of Florida, who was the co-chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, sent emails and text messages to Congressional pages that have indications of sexual predatory mis-conduct. One of the men charged with protecting children in congress apparently 'had a reputation' among the congressional pages for chasing after at least one young boy, a sixteen year old page.

Speaker Dennis Hastert of my own home state of Illinois, has stated that he knew about some of the deviant emails that were sent and that he learned about these early this year along with several other members of the House. No one including the speaker did anything to initiate an investigation, call the matter to the attention of the house nor protect the congressional pages of the House from a potential child predator.

For this Speaker Hastert should resign. When leaders fail to lead, fail to exercise their authority to protect even the people that work for them in a professional atmosphere, when they fail to protect minors serving as volunteers in our nations capitals, they do not deserve to continue holding office.

The Washington Times in an editorial similarly calls on Speaker Hastert, "Resign, Mr. Speaker".

"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."

The Republican Party has lost its way and lost its principles along the path towards total and complete corruption. What happened to the Republican House that worked to bring a Contract for America?

Many of them came with ideals and are now rapidly leaving under the shadow of conspiracies, corruption, moral and ethical bankruptcy and a cloud of ineffectualism.

It is my view that Americans need to step up in November and vote out all incumbents. The Democrats in office today are little better than the Republicans, we need a fresh start. We need to impose term limits not as called for in the Contract for America, but as provided and protected in the Constitution. The oldest form of term limits is the voice of the people that vote bad politicians out of office