Posted on 10/18/2007 8:39:51 AM PDT by george76
GOOD bye.
GOOD RIDDANCE!
Did he get caught tapping his toes?
Yes. Whenever a party loses power, a lot of older representatives who got comfortable with the power of the majority find they don’t like being in the minority and not having people cater to their every whim and send them expensive gifts and bribes or even inviting them to the best box seats at the football games.
So they quit.
A lot of democrats quit the senate after they lost power, and the house (not as many in the house because so many of them lost election).
Now it’s the republican’s turn, and for the most part it’s great, we get new blood, and maybe a fresh start.
But the executive largely agreed with that already, and was willing to go through the process of sorting things out.
And the court didn’t say the search was wrong, or that everything had to be returned.
So it was kind of a 50/50 ruling.
:)
HA!
Hysterics?
Hardly.
Seeing that you are unwilling to elaborate, I suppose your definition of “RINO” is . . . .
LOL. Read: "I never bothered to learn anything about him, so I decided to appear on a conservative website and look like an idiot."
CHRIS LAUZEN FOR CONGRESS!!!
I'm from near Denny's area. He's resigning to give his successor an early leg up in a number of ways.
As for any re-election problems for a Republican in that district....a GOP candidate's election is as safe as a your daughter staying in a Motel 6 overnight with Rush Limbaugh.
Leni
Actually, I’ve heard whispers that Hastert may put the timing of his resignation on hold to a date after the Feb. 5th primary election. If there is a special election for his seat, it would probably be held on Feb. 5th. Remember, Illlinois is now a Dem state and Dem controlled. Obama is running for President and is from this State. Although unlikely, it is conceivable depending on who would be running for Hastert’s seat, that a Democratic sweep in the primaries in this State for President, be it Obama or Hillary, could sweep in a Dem in Hastert’s district, if they ran a strong candidate. One never knows. So, Hastert will probably hold off on resigning until after the primaries, so he can make sure whomever the Pubs tap, will definitely win. Leave nothing up to chance.
the stupid party’s imploding.
His period as Speaker marked the Republican congressional delegation's final decay from Reagan splendor to the provincial Republicanism of an earlier era...
He also opened the floodgates to Congressional spending. He also turned a blind eye to the petty corruption that beset the House during his term. He encouraged mediocrity and held back young principled Republicans of the Reaganite variety. He allowed the Republican Party to return to the era of pork barrel deal making...
The result was the Reagan Administration, an amalgam of the best of the rising right and the old liberal consensus developed at the beginning of the Cold War. It was a politics of ideas. Irving Kristol had pronounced modern politics the domain of ideas and he was right. Hastert, the retired high school wrestling coach, had no appetite for ideas. Until Republicans return to a politics of Reaganite ideas, they will be as antiquated as the Democrats and infinitely less interesting.
-American Spectator editor R. Emmett Tyrrell
Ouch. Score one point. :)
Do you have a link handy? I’d like to read the rest. (Or I’ll try and find it myself later).
Are you kidding? Hastert has always come off to me as extremely dirty and somebody who could give a rat's behind about fiscal conservatism. Go read up on the Prairie Parkway scandal, and then work backwards.
Hastert was essentially Bob Michel, Part 2: ineffective, worthless, and weak. Coupled with spineless Frist in charge of the Senate, it's not a surprise we lost control of Congress. Now it's time to rebuild.
“The other Republican, Chris Lauzen, is a conservative Mexican”
Kuksool, do you refer to Rick Santorum as “a conservative Italian”? : )
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