Uh Bossie and Michael Reagan, Hastert did not know of the lurid IM's until last Friday.
Maybe you two should read FR more and get the real story instead of relying on CNN.
I feel that Hastert has been a very poor leader. I may get lots of flame, but that's my opinion.
I am very surprised by Michael Reagan's comments, IF THEY ARE TRUE and in context. Is 'Human Events' reliable, or just another dinosaur wandering off to the tar pits?
This statement from Reagan is false.
I understand his knee-jerk reaction better than most since he was a victim of perversion. But the email the GOP leadership was aware of had not reached perversion level.
Hastert only became aware of the disgusting IMM's a few days ago.
OK first Hastart, THEN WHO's NEXT????!!!
This is probably a pretext to remove him from office. brings to mind the demise of another: Tom Foley. (Except that Tom Foley actually did something)
Damn, Michael Reagan was on a tear too. He really screwed up with this statement.
These armchair bozo's need to get their facts correct. The IM's (which someone was holding onto) were explicit in nature, the e-mail's (which Hastert saw) were very tame in comparison.
Uh Bossie and Michael Reagan, Hastert did not know of the lurid IM's until last Friday.
Ping! Gut reaction check needed for Michael Reagan. From what I heard, the emails were pretty innocuous but it was the IMs that were lurid. These only came to light very recently to Hassert. They were of course, being sat on by SOMEONE for political use against the GOP. Hmmmm, I wonder who that could be?
Human event has their own agenda in this. This is pretty tragic to watch. Not like Foley was not tragic enough.
This is not the time for the various wings of the party to start settling old scores and looking for influence. We got a election in about a month.
I just saw two makor "conservative" activist on CNN. They were suppose to talk about FOLEY but it was more in the line of veiled threats if you ask me. This is crazy.
Nothing like joining the CNN-Pelosi-Reid lynch mob.
THE ENEMY is not Hastert, the ENEMY is the jerkos who had the IMs and DID NOT TURN THEM OVER.
Good God, we do NOT need conservatives cannibalizing each other over this!!!!!! We need to stick together, or we get Majority Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi!
Hastert is basically the House Minority Leader, although somehow, his party has more representatives than the other. Has their ever been a more tepid, inneffectual Speaker? If he was like this as a wrestling coach, he probably didn't have a good record.
Good grief....sounds like they went off half cocked after watching the Drive By Media spin the facts all weekend. What a pity. What does he want him to resign from? The House or the Majority Leader?
Butnot quite.
STFU
STFU, I am referring to the blowhards not you
What a drama queen. Sacrifice a child? That "child" was participating.
Why did Foley have to resign?? Studds didnt. Frank didnt. Clinton didnt .teddy Kennedy didnt. And they all did MUCH worse than Foley. As for Hastert, I too think he has been weak, but now is not the time to bail on him.
Michael Reagan is just wrong on this.
The problem is that the older crowd is just plain ignorant about the distinction between emails and Instant Messages.
This is like calling a post of FR an email.
Michael Reagan SHOULD be asking why the democrats held onto the instant messages for THREE YEARS.
The emails which are part of the houe email system are recored and kept in archives. A sexual predator would not use those. Thus the house leaders would not have access.
The fact is that the Dems rolled out Harman to respond TOOOOO conveniently and too coordinated. The real issue is how long have democrats known about the instant messages in order to be able to prepare and plan?