Posted on 10/02/2006 6:26:51 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns
Edited on 10/02/2006 7:05:39 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON TIMES ON TUESDAY WILL CALL FOR SPEAKER HASTERT'S RESIGNATION, NEWSROOM SOURCES TELL DRUDGE... DEVELOPING... Editorial titled: 'Resign, Mr. Speaker': 'House Speaker Dennis Hastert must do the only right thing, and resign his speakership at once... Mr. Hastert has forfeited the confidence of the public and his party, and he cannot preside over the necessary coming investigation, an investigation that must examine his own inept performance'... -- Washington Times, October 3, 2006...
The Wash Times is one of the best papers in the old US of A. If you don't read it, you should give it a chance online. They have one of the best reporters around in Bill Gertz. Forget the Moonie stuff, they're good.
Fine, get rid of Barney Frank first.
**crickets**
Would you mind paying the increase in taxes I can expect...since you seem to enjoy punishment?
Stop buying into the KOS/DU crap that suggests the House leadership knew about the IMs and hid their knowledge. With the information known at the time, they couldn't do anything since nothing Foley had done was illegal.
At this most critical moment when conservatives needed more than anything to show resolute steely-spined discipline to repel and defeat the enemy at the gate (and the enemy was grievously wounded and not nearly as strong as its MSM mouthpieces announced) conservatives panicked, fell into disorder, and began turning viciously on one another.
Pathetic.
I don't get the timeline either. If I follow from your previous post, the logical timeline is that the kid's parents, angry, contact Alexander. He has the emails, his staff leaks them to some liberal buddies in the fever swamps who plan an election strategy.
Where, though, do the IMs come from? This story moves so fast, do we know that the IMs were actually sent to a minor?
It will be interesting to see when and how this breaks. But if Dorothy has any friends on Alexander's staff, you can be sure he has them under the bright lights.
I don't care how long you've been a member of FR; either you've NEVER read anything but the pro-dope threads, or you have one of the worst memories known to mankind! Go read FR's archives and learn what Slick actually did do to America, in 1998, 1999, and all of 2000.
Hastert should resign. While he is at it, Bill Frist should resign, also. What a lamer. The guy has not shown any leadership.
The Republican Congress is a joke. I totally agree with the WSJ editorial today. We need to get some real Republican leaders in there asap. This just goes to show what happens to good people after they have been in DC too long. They all look alike.
Someone calling on a Republican to resign? That even makes the news any more?
Maybe they want him gone before his call to have the media and Democrats investigated gets wide attention.
Hey Tx...Good to hear from you. I wonder if this is really about conservatives seeing an opportunity to advance their cause in the House against lackluster leadership. I think most of us have been disappointed in Republican timidity over the years. Could this be that crack that may offer an improved mood by more aggressive moves from conservatives?
Thank you. "Non sexual" indeed. I can't believe there are actually a few FReepers here calling those creepy things "innocent".
I don't believe any FReeper said the IM's were innocent. Beware you're falling into the trap the Dems and MSM are laying down -- confusing the e-mails and the IM's. The e-mails were overly friendly, the IM's were overly disgusting.
Whoever said the MSM would suddenly legitimize the Washington Times is right.
CNN is now reporting "Washington Times: Hastert should resign". They have a big crawl on their screen.
Yes, Hastart should immediately ask for the resignation of all the homosexuals in Congress until this can be totally investigated.
Well, I haven't tried to "tore me a new one" tonight, but let me try to answer your question. Five months ago, there was critical examination of Hastert, from within his own party. There's nothing wrong with that, and it is, in fact, good for the party. Note, too, that not everyone in the party agreed with the "dump Hastert" article that you referenced. The difference, now, in October, is that OUR man is being attacked by outsiders (RATs, MSM, RINOs....our enemies). And at first glance, from what I can see so far, it looks like a political railroading. I haven't heard anyone here (except you) refer to him as a "sacred cow". The only thing I have heard is that Hastert said he knew nothing about the e-mails, the RNC is having the FBI investigate, and that we should wait until some FACTS are known before we get out our knives and start doing the DNCs work for them.
Did the republicans demand it?
Go drink more spiked kool-aid. The only people buying your words is yourself and those here that secretly want a donk controlled congress.
In case you missed Drudge.
No ... They knew about the overly friendly emails ... the graphic IM's were not known till it was reported Friday when a lib site gave them to ABC
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