This will not be a long diary and I assume others will take up this torch and bear it better than I can, but let's get on it NOW.
Denny Hasterts says his justification for NOT resigning his position as House Speaker is "because that would be giving into the Democrat party's best wish."
Leave aside how true (or not) this assertion is.
These guys ARE STILL LOOKING AT IT AS A POLITICAL ISSUE.
As a parent, I guarantee you that there aren't many other parents out there who see this as a political issue. The record already in public shows that Hastert knew enough about Foley's behavior to warrant his supervisory attention, and he didn't give it (or more likely, actively supressed it). In the face of that, his justification for not resigning "because that would be giving into the Democrat party's best wish."
This feeds into every issue that we have today: Iraq, torture, the environment, all of it. To the Republicans, it's all politics. People don't matter, only keeping Republicans in office, and their big-money benefactors happy, matters.
This needs to be framed and shouted from every rooftop.