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“… advance the training of Wheaton College students and the greater community in the understanding of market economies, representative democracies, limited government, and the redeeming effects of the Christian worldview on the practice of business, government and politics,”
Aaah, free-market Christianity.
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Wheaton College is Ground Zero for American Christo-fundy zealotry. Bwaaah-Haa-ha-ha!
And he already paid half the blackmail, too! That must tick him off the most.
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Look how wrong you can be.
I’ve seen several people question why Hastert was willing to pay $3.5 million to hush up Individual A. Some comments have suggested that the money was too much for any possible scandal and that it was more worth it to come clean.
Right here is one of many examples of why it was worth at least $3.5 million to Hastert, and probably is to other people like him.
His entire legacy is now soaked in nuclear napalm for the remainder of history. The entire Republican brand can never speak his name again with any credibility. Every vote he ever cast, every action he ever took will … and must be … filtered through the lens of:
Who was blackmailing him to do what he did?
Also the Republican Party, which vetted him to be fit to serve in Congress and to be THE Speaker of the House, directly in line to the Presidency after the Vice President, will forever have to answer for putting this man into such a position of power while being vulnerable to such blackmail.
Just try to imagine for a moment what it would have been like to have the President of the United States vulnerable to blackmail and pressure over this sort of sordid activity in his past. The Republican Party is so corrupt and incompetent that this is exactly what they did … although, it may seem pale in comparison to putting Bush in office under the Cheney Administration.
Yeah, $3.5 million is cheap at the price, but just how mind-numbingly stupid such a man would have to be to think he could hide such a thing while seeking the highest offices available in the country.
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It is most likely that he will very soon become a non-person, never spoken about again by Republicans and their fellow-travelers, as if he never existed. They will NOT regularly review the cogent questions you bring up and so will never have to answer for anything.
Also: Look who is SOH now. Can you conceive of Pres. Boehner in any way, shape, or form without nightmares? Or Pres. Gingrich? There have been quite a few losers in that position in my lifetime. Dennis who? is just one more.
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As a young man, Dennis Hastert was a handsome guy. Perhaps he was simply too hot to turn down for some young scrubs.
Wheaton College. You can’t make this shit up.
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Good point: the gubmint could also go after the “victim” for having money obtained in a a crime. They could go after Miss Dennie for not paying gift tax!
Ain’t government fun?
I put the odds at 9/5 that several of these prosecutions were on hold until the repig kongress voted in the new AG. Suckers!