I called this LAST NIGHT - as soon as I heard what was specified at the beginning of the indictment!
I should be in journalism! 
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Just found this Kos post while googling around on the intertubes: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/12/256520/-Is-Hastert-gay#
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I think it must have been sex with numerous underage boys when he was a coach. Now that itās out there, if it is indeed abuse, people will probably come forward. On another note I wonder why he was being blackmailed for 3.5 million. Why not 3 or 4. Sounds a bit of an oddity.
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Newt to Bob Michaelās sadomasochism to Dennyā¦was this progression ascending or descending?
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So what we know is this blackmail only started after Hastert left Congress? Please.
Are we to believe someone (or some people) having this knowledge on a Speaker of The House!!! didnāt leverage that info previously? For who knows what?
This is just getting startedā¦every vote Hastert placed while in Congress is now in question.
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Suggested title for TLC: ā18 Or At Least He Said He Wasā
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Remember how fast Deborah Jeane Palfrey and her little black book vanished?
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The media is promulgating the line of unmitigated horsepucky that Hastert was, until now, ānot controversial.ā Thatās revisionist history.
From ABC News, June 2006:
āSpeaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL) realized an estimated $2 million dollar profit last year [2005] on an Illinois land deal that included acreage near a future interstate highway Hastert pushed to buildā¦ The land was sold just five months after Hastert inserted a $207 million appropriation bill for the Prairie Parkway highway during a closed-door Congressional budget conference.ā
What the media should be saying is that he was never prosecuted. If that isnāt a criminal act, it should be.
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The coverup is worse than the crime. Always
Just ask the Duggars.
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Interesting comments about Santorum in the same article.
Inflation.
Thanks for the reminder about that land deal (itās in an area I live). Theyāre still fighting over the highway, but that land was sucked up by Hastert and who knows how many other insiders. Nauseating.
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With all of this traffic, the Internet tubes must be getting doggone tiredā¦
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Whoa, I think that round struck the USS Hastertās ammo magazine.
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Wonder if Denny Hastert, Larry Craig and Mark Foley were ever on the same foreign junket?
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I have no sympathy for pervs who troll below the age of consent.
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Well, Iād say more than a couple law firms have broke out the Mediterranean vacation brochures about now.
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Letās hope this does not turn into another Sandusky style abuse scandal.
Catherine Thompsonā¦please google Hastert Sibel Edmonds and Turkey bribesā¦
She worked for the Feds translating wiretaps that happened just prior to 9-11 where she heard Hastertās name being mentioned several times regarding bribes and weapons going to Turkey.
She was fired and told to keep quiet.
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I guess Hastert says molesting aināt easy but somebodyās gotta do it . Why did this not surprise me, Male wrestling coach , teenage boys? C-Span Caller who hung up? Hey Denny the guys miss you ā¦he he he.
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Iām starting a pool. How many minutes past the 6PM news race starts before a Fox News talking head ties these revelations to a Liberal hit job? I say 7.
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