The New York Times notes how the NRCC has run ads this cycle hitting Democratic challengers on being soft on child predators.

All I can say is "Huh"?:

House Speaker Dennis Hastert has asked the Justice Department to investigate how lawmakers handled allegations that Rep. Mark Foley exchanged sexually explicit messages with teenage congressional pages. The move comes after Democrats questioned whether the House’s GOP leadership had squelched concerns about Foley, a Republican who now has resigned.

That’s the political fallout of the Foleygate story — not that a Republican senator liked to sexually solicit underage (male) congressional pages, but that the GOP leadership knew of it for months, possibly years, and covered it up.

RELATED:  As is often the case, the Foley story "broke" at a blog.

UPDATE – via Think Progress:

Rep. Dennis Hastert’s former webpage before he changed it this morning:

Hastert’s webpage now:

Heh.