Seems from here that the people of the 14th Congressional District of Illinois are best positioned to rule on Dennis Hastert et al. and their apparent delay in dealing with the Mark Foley matter. One hopes they will do their duty and bring Coach Hastert home to sit on the sidelines watching reruns of his old high school teams.

Now that Foley is gone, we're hearing from the Speaker that the problem is "who leaked it?"

Typical. In all the recent scandals since Jan. 20, 2001, there has been an attempt to shift the emphasis to the political outcome and benefit and lost. There must be a lot of dead messengers in Washington, D.C.

The Republicans who are coming out for full disclosure are to be congratulated. Maybe we'll get back our two party system and be able to take pride in whomever represents us.