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Will Hastert say farewell on Friday?
The Politicio ^ | August 13, 2007 | Patrick O'Connor

Posted on 08/14/2007 6:20:28 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued

The congressional retirement season has started, and it appears former Speaker Dennis Hastert may soon announce his own plans to ride off into the sunset.

The Illinois Republican sent supporters a letter over the weekend asking them to join him for a speech this Friday at the Kendall County Courthouse in Yorkville, Ill.

The letter does not say whether he'll run for reelection in 2008 or announce his retirement, but speculation skews heavily toward retirement. And neither Hastert nor his aides have done much to dispel the widely accepted opinion back home that he'll call it quits. For example, an aide did not respond to an e-mail about the weekend letter.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 110th; 2008; hastert; retirement
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To: Joe Boucher

I agree, in the strongest of terms, with your statement!

NO.MORE.RINOs.

I’ve been sending torn up checks out to the RNC and NRSC, State GOP, etc., whenever they email, call, or write for a donation. I say, sure, how much? OK, then I write it, tear of the account numbers, rip it up, and mail it off.

I’d rather give my money to support FRed, Hunter and, Tancredo’s campaigns.

Thanks for the motivation!


22 posted on 08/14/2007 8:19:12 AM PDT by papasmurf (<<<<< Click there to see my dogs! Oh, and I have FRed one liners, too.)
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To: kellynla
Agreed!

However, the only way is to amend the US Constitution - as was triggered by FDR's fourth term. Otherwise the courts will say that a mechanism exists to achieve the same obejctive - those things called elections.

Term limits should apply to both houses of Congress along with their staff personnel.

23 posted on 08/14/2007 8:20:30 AM PDT by jamaksin
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To: Shuck04

Jim Oberweis has frequently attended Minutemen gatherings. During the Summer of 2006, he was in AZ with the Minutemen patrol. The IL Minutemen would be pro-Oberweis more than anything.

Oberweis’s past campaign ads were poor. In his attempt to portray himself as pro-border security, the ads fail to insert the word “illegal” when talking about immigrants. By omitting that word, Oberweis was easily tarnished as a mean spirited old man.


24 posted on 08/14/2007 8:38:11 AM PDT by Kuksool
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To: Kuksool

The Republicans need to go with a new theme: Clean house and senate with new, non-beltway politicians. Get x-military (good fighting ones), strong records of service, and lots of appeal, smarts & money. Long term congressmen and women need to be retired. I heard that Jeff Beatty is a strong R candidate considering pulling out the rug from John F’ng Kerry in the senate next year. We need a list started of all good candidates and send money directly to them...


25 posted on 08/14/2007 8:57:35 AM PDT by princess leah
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To: princess leah

Ex-military alone is no guarantee of success. We just need to get good people, period. It’s too bad that Beatty has no party apparatus in MA to help him. He’ll be lucky to get more than 30% of the vote in that cesspool, and that’s the real tragedy.


26 posted on 08/14/2007 1:14:02 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: Clintonfatigued
Six years in the majority with a republican in the White House and the federal government grew 2-3 times inflation. Good reddens Denny Hastert.
27 posted on 08/14/2007 1:45:46 PM PDT by jackieaxe (This one hour pre-flight security screening is brought to you by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
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To: Clintonfatigued

A fat crooked ineffectual empty suit is retiring, don’t know why he’d leave a body where he’s so at home.


28 posted on 08/14/2007 4:00:02 PM PDT by youthgonewild
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To: Joe Boucher

Hastert, another go-along-to-get-along country club Republican in the finest Robert Michael tradition. Hired a former Red China lobbyist for his senior staff (Nancy Dorn, I believe).

Good riddance.


29 posted on 08/14/2007 4:07:51 PM PDT by Czar ( StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: Bush gal in LA
I happened to catch that show and was amazed at the pure audacity of these people. People in the audience(some illegals) were saying they must make people aware of the problem of illegals by committing more and more acts of’’civil disobedience’’. One guy stated that he was angry that illegals aliens are put under so much ‘’stress’’! Amazing!

I can top that.

A few months ago, the local TV station had on some tool who was whining about how a law that would put a notation on a driver's license identifying the holder as an illegal alien was wrong, because it would make them feel like -- and I quote -- "second-hand citizens."

I wanted to vomit.

Gee, exactly WHAT kind of "citizen" ARE illegal ALIENS supposed to feel like?

We're clean through the looking glass...

30 posted on 08/14/2007 6:10:42 PM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: JohnnyZ
He also ought to save up for a smaller fork. The guy looks increasingly like the bastard son of Jabba the Hut and Mr. Creosote. IMO you don't get your body into that kind of shape without having a pretty much derailed mind. The visuals are a mere symptom of the disorder. There's something wrong when a country is ruled (yes, that's what it's come down to -- ruled) by people for whom the concept of honest work is considered something for the little people, AKA "their subjects" (which sadly, is what we've become).
31 posted on 08/14/2007 6:19:52 PM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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To: Czar

getting ready for his retirement.
Must have a ob lined up with the chi-coms.


32 posted on 08/15/2007 4:47:30 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: Joe Boucher
"Must have a ob lined up with the chi-coms."

Or the Saudi's, who bow to nobody when it comes to luring our corrupt politicians into "friendly behavior" while in office, then when they retire, making certain they are suitably rewarded with consulting gigs or high paying jobs with Saudi-friendly firms.

And Congress wonders why they are held in such utter contempt by the American people.

33 posted on 08/15/2007 10:39:34 AM PDT by Czar ( StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: Clintonfatigued

IL House Minority Leader - Tom Cross - won’t run.


34 posted on 08/15/2007 2:03:40 PM PDT by Kuksool
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To: ontap

I’ll miss his 92.9 lifetime ACU rating.


35 posted on 08/15/2007 2:07:55 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Czar
Hastert, another go-along-to-get-along country club Republican in the finest Robert Michael tradition. Hired a former Red China lobbyist for his senior staff (Nancy Dorn, I believe). Good riddance

What the hell are you talking about? Hastert has one of the most conservative voting records in Congress.

36 posted on 08/15/2007 2:13:39 PM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar
"Hastert has one of the most conservative voting records in Congress."

I see an 88% for 2006, quite good.

I still don't care for him. As I recall, he was with Bush on nearly all of the major blunders. He was always an advocate for "compromise" by word and by deed. On issues where the GOP should have held firm, Denny was the one the Rats always approached for a compromise, and there were too many. What really did it for me, though, was the appointment of that Red China lobbyist for a senior staff position with sensitive security clearance requirements. I didn't like it then and I don't like it now.

37 posted on 08/15/2007 3:16:50 PM PDT by Czar ( StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: Czar

see an 88% for 2006, quite good.

Hastert has a lifetime ACU rating of 92.9 over a 20 year period. In 2005, it was 100.

I still don't care for him. As I recall, he was with Bush on nearly all of the major blunders. He was always an advocate for "compromise" by word and by deed. On issues where the GOP should have held firm, Denny was the one the Rats always approached for a compromise, and there were too many. What really did it for me, though, was the appointment of that Red China lobbyist for a senior staff position with sensitive security clearance requirements. I didn't like it then and I don't like it now.

It is difficult for the Speaker of the House to go against the President who is in the same party. I don't know what you are referring to specifically about compromises with the Democrats. Hastert had a tough job just managing the small Rep majority in the House, especially keeping the Northeast RINOs onboard for key legislation.

Hastert has bucked the WH. He voted for the 2005 Border Security bill. He voted against McCain-Feingold. What other blunders are you referring to? He did vote for prescription drugs.

38 posted on 08/15/2007 3:52:16 PM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar
"What other blunders are you referring to?"

I haven't run it down yet, but I seem to recall that he also voted for some of the earlier amnesty/immigration bills.

I understand that you support him, and agree that his lifetime ACU rating is quite good. I simply have the feeling, accumulated over a number of years, that he either caved or was on the wrong (Bush) side of several important issues. Conservatives just couldn't count on him.

Neither of us is right or wrong, and neither of us will persuade the other. Perhaps we should leave it at that.

39 posted on 08/15/2007 4:32:09 PM PDT by Czar ( StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: Czar
I haven't run it down yet, but I seem to recall that he also voted for some of the earlier amnesty/immigration bills

Hastert receives an A+ lifetime rating on immigration, one of the very best in Congress

Neither of us is right or wrong, and neither of us will persuade the other. Perhaps we should leave it at that.

Facts are stubborn things. I have the facts, you have the feelings/emotion. I am not trying to persuade you of anything. You are wrong on the facts.

40 posted on 08/15/2007 4:38:58 PM PDT by kabar
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