The Orange Overlord maybe hears the pitter-patter of tiny indictments coming up behind him?
“shocked and saddened”
Because the Speaker’s only paid out $1.8 million so far…
I saw that movie, it wasn’t clear until the very end who was the bad guy.
Another Republican hypocrite in Dennis Hastert, he voted against gays at every turn and yet he was a gay. And as far as Boehner saying The Denny I served with worked hard on behalf of his constituents and the country. Well his constituents were the Wealthy and the only country he and the rest of the GOP know and care about is the Land of the Rich. People need to stop electing Republicans
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Thanks for the link. You can see how it works, Talk to sympathetic “dumbfounded” friends, who then in turn may talk to some PR firm, and presto chango, Denny’s a victim when all he ever wanted to do was wrestle.
Just so Boner doesn’t lead the House in a rendition of The Marseilles,but that would mean having had an interest in something other than drinking and smoking.
Once the blood level in his Merlot system tanks, I think Johnny-boy would eagerly lead the House with a slobbering, weepy rendition of We Shall Overcome…or possibly the Brawny jingle.
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“…the J. Dennis Hastert Center for Economics, Government and Public Policy…”
This Center exists to serve as a concrete reminder that conservatives are fundamentally better people to whom we are beholden. Or so the elites assure us.
In truth, the difference between them and us is they are obsessed with money and power, and they are willing to lie, cheat, steal, and otherwise wreck the lives of working people to get it.
What is Congress doing about our infrastructure?
What is Congress doing about white-collar crime?
What is Congress doing about the corruption of Christianity?
What is Congress doing about police criminality?
What is Congress doing about pollution?
What is Congress doing about voting rights?
What is Congress doing about income inequality?
What is Congress doing about climate change?
What is Congress doing about war?
What is Congress doing, besides raising millions for themselves?
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Boehner like Paterno pretended to be shocked, I feel he definitely knew something about what was happening, and said or did nothing, why, because that’s the way people with a lot of exposure get treated, look the other way and keep quiet.
This kind of news could turn Boehner to drink.
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Mr. Hastert also worked with the Boy Scouts for 16 years, according to an address he gave in 2008 to a Boy Scouts group at Pikes Peak in Colorado.
“We did a lot of neat things,” he said to the group, including taking high-school-aged boys on trips to the Bahamas, the Grand Canyon and float trips on the Green River in Utah. “I saw those kids develop and meet challenges and change,” he said
Call me cynical, but we’re going to hear from those boys as well.
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Boehner went on to say “The real shock is that in this case payola went from one of us to someone else instead of the other way around.”
Plus, he is shocked that Billo already has his new book out: Killing Hastert. In its second chapter, O’Reilly’s alleges he went to Coach Hastert’s secret wrestling practice in the high school gym when Billo heard the loud snap of a belt… Funny story, turns out some skeptical journalist will find out O’Reilly went to YorkTOWN not Yorkville, and O’Reilly was pounding on the door, not of the high school gym but of a Men’s Wearhouse.
I’ve heard that too, and while he was there he helped Lafayette capture Cornwallis.
In fact, Boener damned near fell off of his barstool. Luckily, the stack of empties held him up.
The ‘cornhole rule’ is being vetted as the replacement for the Hastert rule, because-apropos.
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It just so happened that when Boehner needed some “established rule/procedure” on which to lay a foundation of Obstruction, he allowed himself to be associated with the “Hastert Rule” (which, according to some reports, Hastert denied has anything to do with him).
Whatever.
The “Hastert Rule” allowed Boehner, as Speaker of the House, to, in effect, mount a Permanent “Filibuster”, using the House, instead of the Senate, as his Instrument. The reasoning was that no legislation would be entertained for a vote if it did not have majority Republican support.
This gimmick allowed Boehner to achieve “Filibuster”-level Obstruction WITHOUT the dramatics associated with Senate filibusters. In fact, as Boehner’s Speakership progressed ("regressed?) from the moment of his ascension to the position of Speaker, NOTHING DONE devolved into a Blank Slate of nothing.
Without any excitement (or reaction) at all. Like not getting excited about in-laws.
It goes without saying that Democrats (or anyone who is not an Anarchist/Oligarch) should “hammer this home” in the public sphere.
The problem with “hammering” anything in the “public sphere”, however is something I commented on Yesterday:
The MSM is the Republican Party
FOX is the Republican Party tailored for those over 55 years of age
BOTH the MSM and FOX are owned by and speak for Oligarchs
I just read about Boehner and others’ shocked" reaction in a WaPo article. What a bunch of baloney ( to use a polite term).
Also this:
Democrats mostly resisted criticizing Hastert. Former Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour warned Democrats not to make the controversy a political cudgel.
“It doesn’t matter a bit politically,” Barbour said in a telephone interview from Mississippi, where he previously served as governor. “Democrats hope it does, but I don’t think so.”
The hypocrisy is stunning. I hope he’s wrong. If’s about time republicans see their politicians without their rose-colored glasses or, worse, blinders, and figure out that we’re all in this together and must work together if we really want life in America to improve.
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“Shocked and saddened.” Yuh-huh, sure, he is.
They all got skeletons.
…shocked by the reports
or shocked by the behavior
or shocked by the amount of hu$h money paid out?