Foleygate has clearly mushroomed into a mini-nuke for Republicans. Democrats were getting nowhere with the "culture of corruption" argument. Voters didn't care. But when you take the Foley mess and modify the message to "culture of sleaze," that gets voters' attention. Here is quick tour of some of the Foley related stories from around the country.

Dan Balz and Jim VandeHei of the Washington Post look at the potentially devastating effect of the scandal on the GOP base.

Carl Hulse and Jeff Zeleny take a similar angle in the New York Times.

The most interesting, and potentially most damaging story on the scandal is the report by Noam N. Levey, Maura Reynolds and Richard B. Schmitt in the Los Angeles Times that Foely's "proclivity" for young male pages goes back years and was fairly widely known on the Hill.

In addition to the editorials I posted on below, here are a bunch more from the New York Times, Newsday, Boston Globe, New York Daily News, Rocky Mountain News, Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel, and the Palm Beach Post.

The Hartford Courant reports on how the Foley scandal is playing in CT House races.

The Hill reports that the ripple effect of the Foley scandal may drag down Republican Tom Reynolds in his tough reelection battle.

Back in Illinois, Senator Dick Durbin called the Foley scandal "disgusting" and "unforgiveable" and called for an investigation of House leadership. And Speaker Hastert's opponent in IL-14 is holding a press conference today calling on him to resign - not just his leadership position but from Congress altogether, saying, "Anyone who knows an Internet sex predator may be stalking children under their care and allows almost a year to go by without taking steps to secure the safety of those children should be held accountable."

Finally, I'd be remiss if I didn't plug another great effort by conservative cartoonist Mike Shelton in today's Orange County Register: