Drudge is reporting that the Foley IM scandal was actually part of a prank:

According to two people close to former congressional page Jordan Edmund, the now famous lurid AOL Instant Message exchanges that led to the resignation of Mark Foley were part of an online prank that by mistake got into the hands of enemy political operatives, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal.

According to one Oklahoma source who knows the former page very well, Edmund, a conservative Republican, said he goaded an unwitting Foley to type embarrassing comments that were then shared with a small group of young Hill politicos. The prank went awry when the saved IM sessions got into the hands of political operatives favorable to Democrats.

So what does this mean?  Absolutely nothing.  If they kids were playing a prank (and an incredibly moronic one at that), the correct response would have been for Foley to tell the kids to begin to act like professionals, or he would report them to their superiors to be disciplined... not to make suggestive sexual remarks back at them.

It's really that simple.  This doesn't get him off the hook at all.  It just puts those kids in hot water also... if it's true.  And given that other pages are stepping forward outside of this "so called prank"... then this guy deserves to be thrown in jail for a long time.  Sadly, it looks like they might have a difficult case to make.