General Discussion

The pedophile GOP Speaker of the House, Hastert, entered his office after Bob Livingston went bye bye because of his philandering with young staff during the years Ken Starr was investigating a consensual blow job (and doing his best to traumatize the young woman involved).

Bob Livingston succeeded Newt Gingrich (are there words sufficient to express that man’s ignominy?) who had to resign because he was under investigation for self dealing (he did it). Newt Gingrich’s (is it third or fourth?) wife began as an adulterous affair that nobody investigated. Apparently, she will be appointed as an ambassador and our press will likely not investigate her or her husband.

Dennis Hastert was, we thought, the stable face to hid the “shadow” speaker, Tom Delay, whose perfidy was so legendary not even the GOP dared make him speaker. He was convicted in Texas! was Tom Delay.

Fret not those who cannot believe a GOP’er did time for criming, the Texas highest criminal court, the court of Criminal Appeals, reversed the jury’s conviction by increasing the state’s evidentiary burden and essentially nullifying the law. Sound familiar?

The lone dissenter, Judge Meyers wrote “"In addition to placing this ridiculous burden on the State, which effectively repeals the statute, this holding also allows corporations who simply cannot be bothered to look up the law to get away with making illegal contributions….”

Dennis Hastert was supposed to be the “clean” speaker who could survive Larry Flynt’s one million dollar offer for evidence of adulterous affairs by GOP’ers.

Dennis Hastert, pedophile was the “clean” speaker.

Our press salivated over getting Bill Clinton while all of this was occurring.
Again, Bill Clinton’s “crime” was getting elected while a southern democrat and receipt of a consensual blow job.

Did our press learn anything from any of this? If they did, there has been no evidence I have seen of the reckoning.

Somewhere, someplace, too, a man named (former R-Ohio congressman) Bob Ney is crying. Nobody got him a get of a jail free card. The press paid scant to that conviction, too.

Dennis Hastert was the “clean” guy …..

Sometimes remembering makes one wonder how hard somebody like Harlan Crowe does laugh at what men like him have wrought from inside Mr. Burns’ cave.