Did anyone else catch Bob Schieffer laugh at Rep. Lahood's defense of Hastert?

[JoeChalupa]

Lahood did a fine job of admitting the ethical issues within the Republican party.

Lahood: Look at, I give Speaker Hastert high marks for strong leadership. He took care of Tom DeLay, his best friend. When Tom was having ethical problems, the speaker went to him and asked him to leave. When he appointed Duck Cunningham to the intelligence committee, he went to Duke and made sure he wasn't on the intelligence committee after it was disclosed he took 2.3 million dollars. And when Bob Ney was appointed chairman of the House administration committee, he was appointed by Speaker Hastert. Speaker Hastert went to him and told him to step down from that committee after the Abramoff disclosures. Hastert has the ability to take on these big ethical challenges that our party has faced…

Bob: But, but…"chuckle"..what you're saying when you list all that Congressman is that he did appoint some of these people who turned out to be crooks. So doesn't he have something to answer for there?


It was classic.

[spurster]

Maybe he'll start with himself. (sure, sure)

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/10/washington/10cnd-foley.html

Hastert Vows Accountability in Page Scandal

By DAVID STOUT

Published: October 10, 2006

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 - House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert said today that there is no room on his staff for anyone who covered up complaints about former Representative Mark Foley’s interest in former Congressional pages. But he said he still has faith that his assistants acted properly.

...

[boutons_]

wham! bam! oof! ouch!

Hastert and Repugs are crooks until caught, then they want credit for catching their in-house crooks. The sheeple/rabble fall for that "defense". :lol

Hastert is fucked, like all the Repugs, DeLay/Abramoff, they have absolutely no scruples or pride or honor. "radical "Christians"/family values", kiss my ass :lol

[johnsmith]

wham! bam! oof! ouch!

Hastert and Repugs are crooks until caught, then they want credit for catching their in-house crooks. The sheeple/rabble fall for that "defense". :lol

Hastert is fucked, like all the Repugs, DeLay/Abramoff, they have absolutely no scruples or pride or honor. "radical "Christians"/family values", kiss my ass :lol


At this point I don't even read what you've written, I just want to fight you.

[JohnnyMarzetti]

At this point I don't even read what you've written, I just want to fight you.

Sounds like Dumbya.

[SA210]

Sounds like Dumbya.
Actually that would require getting someone else to do the fighting for him.

[JohnnyMarzetti]

:lmao

[valluco]

Actually that would require getting someone else to do the fighting for him.
Yeah, but we all know that johnsmith is a real badass.

He picks fights on these here internets.

[boutons_]

October 10, 2006

Hastert Vows Accountability in Page Scandal

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By DAVID STOUT

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 — House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert said today that there is no room on his staff for anyone who covered up complaints about former Representative Mark Foley’s interest in former Congressional pages. But he said he still has faith that his assistants acted properly.

http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif ( what about Hastert himsellf. Having covered it up himself, he's now on a rampaging crusade to root the evil-doers!! http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif By implication, this crusade excludes going after himself. Sheeple/rabble actually fall for such transparent self-exonerating bull fucking shit! http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif )

Mr. Hastert, speaking to journalists in Aurora, Ill., in a question-and-answer session that illustrated how the Foley scandal is pushing other issues onto the sidelines, said he believed his assistants had handled the Foley affair “as well as they should.”

“However, in 20-20 hindsight, probably you could do everything a little bit better,” the speaker continued. “But if there is a problem, if there was a cover-up, then we should find that out through the investigation process.”

( no fucking shit! How about having gone after homosexual predator pedofile Foley with the same energy and venom that you went after Clinton for legal, heterosexual sex? )

He said he first learned of Mr. Foley’s interest in former pages, and his e-mail messages to them, “last Friday. That was the first information that I had about it.” By “last Friday,” Mr. Hastert apparently meant Sept. 29, the day Mr. Foley abruptly resigned his seat after the explosive revelations of his sexually suggestive e-mails.

Mr. Hastert noted that the episode is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the House Ethics Committee. Anyone queried will be under oath “and we’ll find out,” he said. “If they did cover something up, then they should not continue to have their jobs.”

( yeah, we know how well that works with dubya and malicious, spy-outing WH leaks! http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif )

In other developments today, Representative Jim Kolbe, an Arizona Republican and a former member of the board that oversees the House page program, said he received a complaint from a former page that Mr. Foley had sent him e-mail messages that made him uncomfortable.

“I was not shown the content of the messages and was not told they were sexually explicit,” Mr. Kolbe said. “It was my recommendation that this complaint be passed along to Representative Foley’s office and the clerk who supervised the page program. This was done promptly.”

( Holy fucking shit. What a bunch of ratshits bastards covering their own asses as if they were pure as virgin snow (or as Catholic altar boys) :lol )

Mr. Kolbe, who was himself a page and is retiring from the House after 22 years, said he did not have “a personal conversation” with Mr. Foley over the matter, and that the former page never complained again, leading him to believe that Mr. Foley’s e-mail had ceased.

“I believed then, and I believe now, that this was the appropriate way to handle this incident, given the information I had and the fact that the young man was no longer a page and not subject to the jurisdiction of the program,” Mr. Kolbe said in a statement issued by his office.

( CYA CYA CYA My shit don't stink! http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif )

The specific incident to which Mr. Kolbe referred took place as long as six years ago, and the speaker’s apparent unawareness of it and other elements of the unfolding scandal until very recently is potentially embarrassing to him and the rest of the Republican leadership.

The Republican discomfort is particularly acute because the resignation of Mr. Foley, a Florida Republican, came in the midst of a hard-fought campaign in which Republicans are trying to hold on to the House.

Republicans would much prefer to be running on other issues

( other critical issues pre-occupying Americans like flag-burning, gay-bashing, conflating "Christians" and STATE. ANYTHING but the Repugs actual disastrous record http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif )

, as Mr. Hastert made clear today. He appeared in Aurora at a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce breakfast. “We’ve lowered people’s taxes,” he told questioners. “People have more money in their pocket to spend. The economy is good. It’s been under our watch.”

( http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif The only winners have been the super rich and corps, the lower/middle classes have stood still or slipped back )

But the questioning quickly shifted to the Foley affair, and its yet-uncertain aftermath. And around the time of Mr. Hastert’s comments, a former page who may have received suggestive e-mails from Mr. Foley was meeting with federal prosecutors in Oklahoma City.

[johnsmith]

Yeah, but we all know that johnsmith is a real badass.

He picks fights on these here internets.


Would you rather I do it in person?

[johnsmith]

Yeah, but we all know that johnsmith is a real badass.

He picks fights on these here internets.


I just pointed out that I want to fight Boutons. How is that implying I'm a real badass? If you don't like it, shut the fuck up.

[johnsmith]

October 10, 2006

Hastert Vows Accountability in Page Scandal

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By DAVID STOUT

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 — House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert said today that there is no room on his staff for anyone who covered up complaints about former Representative Mark Foley’s interest in former Congressional pages. But he said he still has faith that his assistants acted properly.

http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif ( what about Hastert himsellf. Having covered it up himself, he's now on a rampaging crusade to root the evil-doers!! http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif By implication, this crusade excludes going after himself. Sheeple/rabble actually fall for such transparent self-exonerating bull fucking shit! http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif )

Mr. Hastert, speaking to journalists in Aurora, Ill., in a question-and-answer session that illustrated how the Foley scandal is pushing other issues onto the sidelines, said he believed his assistants had handled the Foley affair “as well as they should.”

“However, in 20-20 hindsight, probably you could do everything a little bit better,” the speaker continued. “But if there is a problem, if there was a cover-up, then we should find that out through the investigation process.”

( no fucking shit! How about having gone after homosexual predator pedofile Foley with the same energy and venom that you went after Clinton for legal, heterosexual sex? )

He said he first learned of Mr. Foley’s interest in former pages, and his e-mail messages to them, “last Friday. That was the first information that I had about it.” By “last Friday,” Mr. Hastert apparently meant Sept. 29, the day Mr. Foley abruptly resigned his seat after the explosive revelations of his sexually suggestive e-mails.

Mr. Hastert noted that the episode is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the House Ethics Committee. Anyone queried will be under oath “and we’ll find out,” he said. “If they did cover something up, then they should not continue to have their jobs.”

( yeah, we know how well that works with dubya and malicious, spy-outing WH leaks! http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif )

In other developments today, Representative Jim Kolbe, an Arizona Republican and a former member of the board that oversees the House page program, said he received a complaint from a former page that Mr. Foley had sent him e-mail messages that made him uncomfortable.

“I was not shown the content of the messages and was not told they were sexually explicit,” Mr. Kolbe said. “It was my recommendation that this complaint be passed along to Representative Foley’s office and the clerk who supervised the page program. This was done promptly.”

( Holy fucking shit. What a bunch of ratshits bastards covering their own asses as if they were pure as virgin snow (or as Catholic altar boys) :lol )

Mr. Kolbe, who was himself a page and is retiring from the House after 22 years, said he did not have “a personal conversation” with Mr. Foley over the matter, and that the former page never complained again, leading him to believe that Mr. Foley’s e-mail had ceased.

“I believed then, and I believe now, that this was the appropriate way to handle this incident, given the information I had and the fact that the young man was no longer a page and not subject to the jurisdiction of the program,” Mr. Kolbe said in a statement issued by his office.

( CYA CYA CYA My shit don't stink! http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif )

The specific incident to which Mr. Kolbe referred took place as long as six years ago, and the speaker’s apparent unawareness of it and other elements of the unfolding scandal until very recently is potentially embarrassing to him and the rest of the Republican leadership.

The Republican discomfort is particularly acute because the resignation of Mr. Foley, a Florida Republican, came in the midst of a hard-fought campaign in which Republicans are trying to hold on to the House.

Republicans would much prefer to be running on other issues

( other critical issues pre-occuping American like flag-burning, gay-bashing, conflating "Christians" and STATE. ANYTHING but the Repugs actual disastrous record http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif )

, as Mr. Hastert made clear today. He appeared in Aurora at a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce breakfast. “We’ve lowered people’s taxes,” he told questioners. “People have more money in their pocket to spend. The economy is good. It’s been under our watch.”

( http://spurstalk.com/forums/images/smilies/smilol.gif The only winners have been the super rich and corps, the lower/middle classes have stood still or slipped back )

But the questioning quickly shifted to the Foley affair, and its yet-uncertain aftermath. And around the time of Mr. Hastert’s comments, a former page who may have received suggestive e-mails from Mr. Foley was meeting with federal prosecutors in Oklahoma City.


Didn't read it, just want to beat up this guy.

[NASCARdad]

Didn't read it, just want to beat up this guy.

Get in line! :cuss

[boutons_]

You hysterical little girls need to get a grip on your vaginas, and/or seek professional help! :lol

[turambar85]

Nah, I am siding with John on this one, simply because I can't handle seeing another thread full of long, meandering artices.

Post a meaningful comment once in a while, you make the rest of the democrats look bad...My 13 year old brother could do what you do...just hit up all of the moveon.org links, throw down on CNN once in a while. You don't actually have to read the article, just see that it mentions some convervative, assume it is bad, and place a "haha, stupid repugs" in the title".

Damn man...

come on...

And btw, this is a secret just for you, Boutons, a meaningful comment will not contain the words vagina, repug, neo-con, etc.

Good luck!

[turambar85]

You know what the funny thing is? It is that I might have agreed with a good portion of what you say. But the sad part is that I will never get a chance to do so, I am instantly turned off by seeing yet another meaningly article followed by "giggle, giggle ass-hole neo-cons."

[smeagol]

JS: grow the fuck up.

Turambar: Boutons will not change. Don't waste your time.

[Zunni]

You hysterical little girls need to get a grip on your vaginas, and/or seek professional help! :lol
..or learn to put someone on your fucking IGNORE list.

[boutons_]

My posted articles are always commented before or after, and many times annotated within.

A lot of my posts don't have any pasted articles at all.

The Repugs simply are stupid, incompentent, venal, lying assholes, and any serious independent observer of the last 6 years comes to the same conclusion, as do the vast majority of Americans.

Here's a secret for you, Turmabar, FUCK OFF

[turambar85]

My posted articles are always commented before or after, and many times annotated within.

A lot of my posts don't have any pasted articles at all.

The Repugs simply are stupid, incompentent, venal, lying assholes, and any serious independent observer of the last 6 years comes to the same conclusion, as do the vast majority of Americans.

Here's a secret for you, Turmabar, FUCK OFF


Did I hit a sore spot Boutons? Jeez...I meant you no offense, I assumed you were a big boy and could handle constructive criticism.

It is just that on a message board it is expected that one will post their own thoughts more than they will post others. We alll have the internet, we can alll read these articles, what we can't find is your one-of-a-kind wit and intellect.

Share that with us for a change, eh?

[SA210]

Boutons just speaks a little bit too much truth, than some can handle.

[johnsmith]

Boutons just speaks a little bit too much truth, than some can handle.


No, Boutons speaks other people's opinions. The only opinion he has formed on his own is "repugs blah blah blah".


Smeagol: Go fuck yourself.

[RandomGuy]

And btw, this is a secret just for you, Boutons, a meaningful comment will not contain the words vagina, repug, neo-con, etc.

Good luck!

(amused)

Would that mean that your comment by using those words wasn't meaningful?

(RG loves plays on words)

[Hook Dem]

See what you started Chalupa? :lol

[NASCARdad]

Hastert is conducting an investigation and has vowed that anyone who did not act appropriatley will be fired. More than what democrats would do.

[johnsmith]

(amused)

Would that mean that your comment by using those words wasn't meaningful?

(RG loves plays on words)


Damnit RG, quit referring to yourself in the 3rd person.

[valluco]

I just pointed out that I want to fight Boutons. How is that implying I'm a real badass? If you don't like it, shut the fuck up.Nah, I'm going to stay right here and NOT shut the fuck up.


At this point I don't even read what you've written, I just want to fight you.

When are we going to fight?

I remember beating you up in grade school.
You are a real badass, man. We all know that true badasses talk shit and pick fights on the internet.

[johnsmith]

Nah, I'm going to stay right here and NOT shut the fuck up.




You are a real badass, man. We all know that true badasses talk shit and pick fights on the internet.


Wow, you went through all that work to get a bunch of quotes, you are a fucking loser. Seriously, what are you trying to accomplish by pointing out my hatred towards Boutons?

[valluco]

Wow, you went through all that work to get a bunch of quotes, you are a fucking loser. Seriously, what are you trying to accomplish by pointing out my hatred towards Boutons?
You're the fucking loser dude. How fucking old are you anyway?

Honestly, who the fuck are you trying to impress with your "toughness" on a fucking message board?

Believe me, I'm no Boutons fan. I can't stand article after article he posts at times, but it's an open forum. Ignore the fucker.

[valluco]

^Damn. That's one too many fucks.

[boutons_]

JS needs urgent professional attention to his deep emotional illness. :lol

[johnsmith]

You're the fucking loser dude. How fucking old are you anyway?

Honestly, who the fuck are you trying to impress with your "toughness" on a fucking message board?

Believe me, I'm no Boutons fan. I can't stand article after article he posts at times, but it's an open forum. Ignore the fucker.


Actually, rather then arguing, you're right. I need to just put him on ignore and actually stick with it. I apologize to everyone for acting like a jackass, I just can't fucking stand the guy...........so I'll leave it at this, if Boutons ever feels like getting beat up, please PM me, until then, he's on ignore.....FOREVER.

[johnsmith]

You're the fucking loser dude. How fucking old are you anyway?

Honestly, who the fuck are you trying to impress with your "toughness" on a fucking message board?

Believe me, I'm no Boutons fan. I can't stand article after article he posts at times, but it's an open forum. Ignore the fucker.


Having said that, I'm 27, impossibly handsome, a virgo, and I enjoy quiet nights just wrapped up in a blanket. Thanks for asking.

I was trying to impress you, and only you.

[valluco]

Actually, rather then arguing, you're right. I need to just put him on ignore and actually stick with it. I apologize to everyone for acting like a jackass, I just can't fucking stand the guy...........so I'll leave it at this, if Boutons ever feels like getting beat up, please PM me, until then, he's on ignore.....FOREVER. :tu

[valluco]

JS needs urgent professional attention to his deep emotional illness. :lol
So do you. :lol :lol :lol

[JoeChalupa]

See what you started Chalupa? :lol

What's up Hook!? I had to post this because it was just too funny how Lahood had his foot firmly planted in his mouth. Just like democrats had to deal with the infamous "blow job" the republicans will need to deal with this.

[JoeChalupa]

I never put anyone on ignore, not even yonivore. I like to read all sides no matter for far left or right they are. Ignoring doesn't accomplish nothing for me.

[johnsmith]

I never put anyone on ignore, not even yonivore. I like to read all sides no matter for far left or right they are. Ignoring doesn't accomplish nothing for me.


Actually, I'd normally be in total agreement with you on this, but the sheer anger that results in just seeing that Boutons posted for me is exactly what RG said, "not healthy".

[JoeChalupa]

True. But even posts like nascardad's are worthy of reading because, troll or not, there are people that feel exactly as he does.

[valluco]

I never put anyone on ignore, not even yonivore. I like to read all sides no matter for far left or right they are. Ignoring doesn't accomplish nothing for me.
Same here. It's good to read everyone's opinion.

Who knows? You might learn something from someone you usually don't agree with, but if you're going to let posts by some on this board get to you like that might as well ignore them.

[George Gervin's Afro]

Actually that would require getting someone else to do the fighting for him.


the definition of a chickenhawk..pick fights for others to fight.. :lol :lol

[George Gervin's Afro]

Having said that, I'm 27, impossibly handsome, a virgo, and I enjoy quiet nights just wrapped up in a blanket. Thanks for asking.

I was trying to impress you, and only you.


hey john what are you doing friday night?


mark foley

[johnsmith]

hey john what are you doing friday night?


mark foley


GGA, didn't you read what I wrote? I'm 27, far to old for that cat.

[turambar85]

Boutons just speaks a little bit too much truth, than some can handle.

That may be the reason that some may like him, SA, but that is hardly the case from my end.

1st- I agree with him, in principle, on many issues, and in actuality on quite a few.

2nd- Boutons does not speak one once of truth, he lets somebody else speak any truth that he does speak for him, and then he adds his brilliant commentary, similar to a liberal inverse of what Rush Limbaugh does.

Boutons does nothing but make liberals look bad, and strengthens the resolve of the conservatives that read his posts.

3rd- His articles are just damn annoying!

[turambar85]

(amused)

Would that mean that your comment by using those words wasn't meaningful?

(RG loves plays on words)

Hmm....1st off, no my comment was not meaningful. 2nd, I meant to say that a meaningful comment does not consist of calling somebody else those names. I am sure that saying that someone called somebody those names it different.