Dennis Hastert's memoir coming out

[Cocoa]

I don't know if I can wait til August for this.


http://www.suntimes.com/output/sweet/cst-edt-sweet13.html

Here's a scoop: House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's memoir, to be aptly titled Speaker, will be published this August -- timed to catch a bounce off the Democratic and Republican conventions.

The unassuming Hastert reveals in the opening chapter -- set on Sept. 11, 2001, after the terrorist attacks -- that the enormity of being in the line of succession after the president and vice president hit him for the first time when he received on that fateful day a briefing on the details of his being sworn into office -- if necessary.

Marji Ross, the president and publisher of Regnery Publishing, a house with a string of best-sellers by conservatives, told me that the Hastert book will be launched on Aug. 2, just after the Democrats wrap up their presidential convention July 26-29 at the Fleet Center in Boston. Hastert plans to devote the month of August to promote his book, hitting the GOP convention Aug. 30-Sept. 2 at Madison Square Garden in New York, where he will do a book signing.

"What I want to try to do is meld the politics and the book into one tour,'' said Michael Stokke, Hastert's deputy chief of staff and top political adviser. ''Obviously, he has a lot of political stuff to do this year too.''

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[demnan]

1. Come on

Is this guy so stupid that he didn't once think about the line of succession before 9/11. He is a liar!

[Cocoa]

3. Hastert's pretty dull-witted

not that he can't be both dumb and a liar...

[QC]

2. Suggestions for alternative titles?

How about: Sucking Up: A Life in Politics

or

From Ass Kissing to Flat Out Analingus: My Life With George W. Bush

[linazelle]

5. Gee, I like that second title best. Maybe Denny will visit us and

consider changing it. I could happen....:shrug:

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

9. You Happy Puppet:

How I was the friendly figurehead for the Delay Regime

[Terran]

4. *YAWN*

Will anyone, repug or Dem, actually read this book? The man is as dull as a bag of rocks.

[Cocoa]

7. it's a toss-up

whose life do I care less about, Dennis Hastert or Tim Russert's father?

[SoCalDem]

6. Look for it SOON..... at a "Dollar Store" near you

:0

[Judi Lynn]

10. Should be easy to find! Probably in large stacks, too.

[SoCalDem]

11. He always looks like an unmade bed to me.. disheveled ..

[Bluebear]

8. Well I for one can't wait to buy it.

I have insomnia time to time and this sounds like just the ticket.