Wait a minute. Isn’t everybody going haywire in here? There seems to be a wild misapprehension about the mechanics and structure of the House of Representatives. Was Denny Hastert Mark Foley’s boss? No. Foley’s boss, as it were, was the collective electorate of his district. I know this is a political game now, and politics ain’t beanbag, but it really makes little sense that Hastert and other Republican House officials are somehow being held responsible for Foley’s behavior, as though it occurred on their “watch.” Foley wasn’t theirs to “watch.” They saw or heard about a few e-mails that seemed peculiar, somebody told Foley to knock it off, and that was as much as it was in their power, or it was their legal or moral or political responsibility, to do.