Hastert: Foley Scandal Is A Liberal Conspiracy To ‘Get To Me’ And ‘Affect

[Demeter]

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/03/hastert-rush/


Hastert: Foley Scandal Is A Liberal Conspiracy To ‘Get To Me’ And ‘Affect Our Election’

Interviewed by Rush Limbaugh today, House Speaker Hastert said Mark Foley’s inappropriate behavior was “a political issue” and promised Rush that “we are going on offense.”

The “offense” is an effort to portray the scandal as a conspiracy specifically timed by liberals to affect the elections. “We are the insulation to protect this country,” Hastert declared, “and if they get to me it looks like they could affect our election as well”:

SPEAKER HASTERT: There were two pieces of paper out there, one that we knew about and we acted on; one that happened in 2003 we didn’t know about, but somebody had it, and, you know, they’re trying — and they drop it the last day of the session, you know, before we adjourn on an election year. Now, we took care of Mr. Foley. We found out about it, asked him to resign. He did resign. He’s gone. We asked for an investigation. We’ve done that. We’re trying to build better protections for these page programs.

But, you know, this is a political issue in itself, too, and what we’ve tried to do as the Republican Party is make a better economy, protect this country against terrorism — and we’ve worked at it ever since 9/11, worked with the president on it — and there are some people that try to tear us down. We are the insulation to protect this country, and if they get to me it looks like they could affect our election as well.

[Kagemusha]

1. So without Hastert the whole House of cards comes crashing down.

Sounds good to me.

[populistdriven]

10. hastert is the new slick

[yellowcanine]

12. Wait a minute. I thought Hastert said he didn't even know Foley.

They look like old pals in that picture. What gives?

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. Hastert describing himself as "the insulation". That's something he has

in abundance. :-) MKJ

edited to add, and he like boys, too!

[SpiralHawk]

3. Whine, Whine, Whine -- that's all corrupt republicons do

How about accepting RESPONSIBILITY once in a while, you perverted hypocrites.

[Demeter]

4. It's Not Always About You, Denny!

Especially when minors are involved!

[last1standing]

5. There are two types of people who vote repub.

Those who care only about themselves and those who are afraid of God. Dirty Denny is playing to the former, of course. In fact, that's what the proponents of greed like freeperville, limbaugh, and drudge are there for - to work up their base who only care about themselves. From what I've seen that seems to be about 35% of the US population. The rest of the repub voters are held in line by the christofascists like falwell, dobson, robertson, and graham. They keep telling the insecure masses, who will do anything to make sure Jesus really does love them, that they are sinning against God if they vote for a Democrat. That, sadly makes up about 35% as well. Fortunately, there is a lot of overlap there, but the net effect is still around 50% which is why we have such close presidential elections.

What has the repubs worried is that the insecure masses who have been brainwashed into believing that repubs are the party of God are seeing with their own eyes that some of these godly congressmen have been either trying to sleep with children or have been covering for them. Even the insecure masses understand that Jesus wouldn't like that so the repub leadership will use the proponents of greed and the christofascists to rile up whatever they can of their base. It won't be easy so you can be sure you'll hear plenty of bull shit coming through the tube in the next 30 days as the proponents of greed call this a "political issue" and the christofascists ignore it and rant against abortion and gays.

The funny thing is I've read over and over here at DU that bush* could eat a baby on live TV and still get about a third of the vote. Now we have the chance to see what the real numbers are. What percentage of people will vote for a party that supports the sexual molestation of children? We'll find out on November 7th. Stay tuned....

[Kagemusha]

6. Hastert: Bravely protecting Congress from our nation's children

After all the kids are part of a vast Democratic conspiracy to seduce and bait good Republican congressmen and ruin the party's electoral chances. This scheme shall not succeed so long as Hastert's on the job! All scandals shall be boldly swept under the rug, because the sanctity of House pages is nothing compared to electoral victory for the Republican Party.

[yellowcanine]

7. I would love for Fat Denny to "go on offense" on this. Hard to figure

out though what that ad would look like. Surely they would not do an ad that reminded voters of Foley's "naughty emails" would they? Would they? Denny?

[War Pigs]

13. I always tried to figure out why Hastert after the Gingrich and

Livingston (boy that was quick!) Penis Chronicles. Now it makes sense, to the Black and White/ With us or Against us mentality Denny Boy was simply too blubbery to be offered any extracurricular bootae. Hence, a safe choice.:hurts:

[librechik]

8. yes, after a coverup, getting the truth out will affect an election

WE HOPE!!!

BASTARDS! THEY WANTED TO KEEP IT QUIET TIL AFTER THE ELECTION! THAT IS THE CRIME< NOT THAT THE TRUTH WAS REVEALED!!

HOW DARE THEY!!!

[ictoos]

9. HASTERT

I'm no great fan of Republi-cons as someone put it, but I think that Hastert had served with some degree of honor up until this.

My concern is that he wll fall on the sword sparing the really vile players in this like Blount and Boehner.

K

[yellowcanine]

11. "if they get to me it looks like they could affect our election as well”

Yes, that would be called democracy, Denny. Both sides get to make their case and then the voters decide. That is how it works. And if one screws up as you have it is perfectly legitimate for the other side to point that out. You would do the same if the positions were reversed.