A New Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy

You just can't underestimate how much the Republicans will not take the blame for anything that has happened under their watch. Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) is now saying that somehow the Democrats made the Republicans try to hide Rep. Mark Foley's (R-FL) scandal until right before the election. I'm not making this up.

Hastert says someone had this and dropped it on the last day of session. Hmmm, someone, someone. Who had this last year but didn't come forward with it or tell the ranking minority member of the panel that oversees the House pages? It's right on the tip of my tongue. Oh, wait, that would Rep. John Shimkus and Speaker Dennis. The two guys who thought the best way to investigate this was to ask Foley if he had done anything wrong and then said "good enough for us" when he told them not to worry.

Think Progress has the story here.