>>t was some wacko, saying, `What in the hell are you guys doing in Washington. Taxes are way too high,’” Hastert, R-Ill., recalls.<<
Of course, in his mind, this is what Bastert thinks of anyone who dares say such things. They are wackos.
He also thinks Congressmen are above the law (re: searching Wm. Jefferson’s office).
Good riddance to bad rubbish. There’s still plenty left to go, though.
On September 11, 2001, Hastert was a whole lot nicer to that idiot that called than I would have been, and I wasn't in a place where I could watch the smoke.
I have not read Tom DeLay's book so I am presuming much but it occurs that the excesses of spending, the earmarks, and cronyism with K Street lobbyists bears scrutiny and we ought to investigate the dynamics between DeLay and Hastert.
Hastert was a good man but we needed a "bad" man. We got a caretaker, a plodding conservative, a man better suited to lead defense but we needed another Gingrich -but without the warts-instead, we got an amiable man.
In his defense, there was something far more important happening that day. But why wouldn’t the Speaker of the House have a separate, secure line for calling other officials?