The Foley Fiasco doesn't appear to be going away.

Like so many progressive bloggers who are covering the Foley Fiasco extensively, John Aravosis at AMERICAblog reports on the latest revelations -- that Foley's tendencies has been well known for years and that some pages were being warned about him as far back as 2001. John tells us that GOP Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), who ran the Page Board, "let Foley spend "a lot of time" with pages, including private dinner with one, after GOP knew Foley was a problem".

This widening scandal may well take a big toll on the GOP House leadership as, in addition to Foley, the likes of Hastert, Boehner, Alexander, Reynolds and now Shimkus have all been implicated in what is at least negligent if not criminal behaviour. Not exactly the October surprises I wondered about earlier, but that's the thing with surprises... they surprise you.

Aravosis concludes his latest piece with:

Putting aside the creepy notion of children bidding on dinner with an already-suspected child sex predator, what in God's name were Shimkus and the Clerk doing approving of Foley taking a kid in his BMW to a private dinner in downtown Washington? The GOP staff already knew that Foley was trouble. They had already warned the kids. Yet Shimkus let Foley spend lots of time with the kids, by Shimkus' own admission. And then they let Foley cruise the kid to dinner in his beamer.

Shimkus is toast.