the thing about trees? is that they MAKE FORESTS.

So okay.  Blah blah Mark Foley, yadda yadda Hastert, page e-mail instant-message blah.

I hear on the radio that there's a tip line that's just been set up, where you can call a number and hear a recording:  "If you have any information about inappropriate messages between Mark Foley and any current or former congressional page, speak after the tone."

Maybe it's just me, but I'd sort of like it if there were a confidential tip line where a person could leave information about inappropriate messages between any member of congress and any current or former congressional page.  I mean, does anyone think for even a moment that Foley is the only member who's ever solicited inappropriate relationships with pages?  He happened to have been foolish enough to do it in a recordable medium, and he happened to have been unlucky enough to get caught.  (Eventually.)  But if people think he's the only one, people might be interested in this bridge I have for sale.

I would like, in short, if the investigation were into Ways To Make Sure Congress Keeps Its Collective Hands Off The Teenagers, rather than Whether Mark Foley Is Growing Up To Be A Dirty Old Man.