Oh, hell naw...we know how this money thing works with Republicans...
Republicans on panel have ties to Hastert
Posted 10/5/2006 10:57 PM ET
By David Jackson and Matt Kelley, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Both Republicans on the House ethics subcommittee investigating the Mark Foley scandal have financial ties to Speaker Dennis Hastert, whose handling of the former congressman's lurid Internet messages to House pages is under scrutiny.
Ethics Chairman Doc Hastings received $2,500 during the 2000 campaign from Hastert's political action committee, Keep Our Majority, according to PoliticalMoneyLine, which tracks money in politics. The six-term Washington Republican, who became ethics chairman last year, will lead the Foley investigation.
Rep. Judy Biggert of Illinois, received $6,000 from Hastert's PAC and $2,000 from Hastert's own re-election fund during the 2002 campaign, according to PoliticalMoneyLine.
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You've got to see the current episode of PBS Now - which does an absolutely brilliant job of putting this all into perspective.
Essentially, Hastert shut down the House Ethics apparatus in order to derail the burgeoning consequences for republican congressional corruption (Cunningham, Delay, Abramoff, etc...,). Once derailed, and for very definite purposes that are easy to timeline and document, all manner of ethical hilarity has ensued as the lunatics are essentially now running the asylum. Totally clinical, mainstream, and utterly damning this little synopsis of congressional malfeasance.
Leaves no doubt whatsoever that Hastert has GOT to go, notsomuch for the acute moral and political humiliation that is a pederast champion of child protection in the party of values, rather, for his irresponsible dismantling of a bulwark of congressional governance. Yet another instance of corrupt, croneyistic incompetence at its conservative finest.
The focus has to be on the lack of upright and competent governance.