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.
Maybe he'll start with himself. (sure, sure)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/10/wa...cnd-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.
...
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".
Hastert is ed, like all the Repugs, DeLay/Abramoff, they have absolutely no scruples or pride or honor. "radical "Christians"/family values", kiss my ass
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".
Hastert is ed, like all the Repugs, DeLay/Abramoff, they have absolutely no scruples or pride or honor. "radical "Christians"/family values", kiss my ass
At this point I don't even read what you've written, I just want to fight you.
Sounds like Dumbya.
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.
October 10, 2006
Hastert Vows Accountability in Page Scandal
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.
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 ing ! How about having gone after sexual 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!
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 ing . What a bunch of rat s bas s covering their own asses as if they were pure as virgin snow (or as Catholic altar boys)
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 don't stink!
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
, 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.”
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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.
Last edited by boutons_; 10-10-2006 at 05:18 PM.
Would you rather I do it in person?
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 up.
October 10, 2006
Hastert Vows Accountability in Page Scandal
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.
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 ing ! How about having gone after sexual 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!
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 ing . What a bunch of rat s bas s covering their own asses as if they were pure as virgin snow (or as Catholic altar boys)
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 don't stink!
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
, 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.”
(
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.
Get in line!
You hysterical little girls need to get a grip on your vaginas, and/or seek professional help!
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 le".
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!
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."
JS: grow the up.
Turambar: Boutons will not change. Don't waste your time.
..or learn to put someone on your ing IGNORE list.You hysterical little girls need to get a grip on your vaginas, and/or seek professional help!
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, 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?
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 yourself.
(amused)
Would that mean that your comment by using those words wasn't meaningful?
(RG loves plays on words)
See what you started Chalupa?
Hastert is conducting an investigation and has vowed that anyone who did not act appropriatley will be fired. More than what democrats would do.
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