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Breaking News: Former Speaker Hastert to resign
Los Angeles Times ^ | October 17, 2007

Posted on 10/18/2007 8:39:51 AM PDT by george76

The Roll Call newspaper in Washington reported on its website this evening that former House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois intends to resign his House seat later this year.

The subscription-only site said Hastert, who had already announced he would not seek reelection in 2008, was calling friends and associates today and telling them of his decision. His early departure would create the need for a special election in his exurban Chicago district, possibly on Illinois' Feb. 5 presidential primary day.

The 65-year-old former high school teacher and wrestling coach, first elected to the U.S. House in 1986 after six years in the Illinois house, has easily won reelection in the state's 14th District in recent years...

(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 200710; dennishastert; elections; hastert
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To: george76

GOOD bye.


61 posted on 10/18/2007 10:37:47 AM PDT by RetSignman (DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
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To: RetSignman

GOOD RIDDANCE!


62 posted on 10/18/2007 10:53:16 AM PDT by Never2baCrat (I used to be modest, now I'm perfect!)
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To: george76

Did he get caught tapping his toes?


63 posted on 10/18/2007 11:03:29 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: Reagan is King

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.


64 posted on 10/18/2007 12:06:59 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT (ninjas can't attack you if you set yourself on fire)
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To: 1rudeboy

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.


65 posted on 10/18/2007 12:11:09 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT (ninjas can't attack you if you set yourself on fire)
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To: Daveinyork

:)


66 posted on 10/18/2007 12:24:36 PM PDT by Cosmo (Liberalism is for girls)
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To: SMARTY

HA!


67 posted on 10/18/2007 1:27:49 PM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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To: 1rudeboy
Both are RINOs.

Hysterics?

Hardly.

68 posted on 10/18/2007 2:57:36 PM PDT by fweingart (Tom Tancredo Will Get The Job Done! (How is Mumia Abu-Jamal these days?))
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To: fweingart

Seeing that you are unwilling to elaborate, I suppose your definition of “RINO” is . . . .


69 posted on 10/18/2007 3:00:43 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: gunservative
I never liked Hastert.

LOL. Read: "I never bothered to learn anything about him, so I decided to appear on a conservative website and look like an idiot."

70 posted on 10/18/2007 3:03:18 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: george76; Kuksool; chicagolady; LdSentinal; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; Norman Bates

CHRIS LAUZEN FOR CONGRESS!!!


71 posted on 10/18/2007 5:42:02 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (You can't be serious about national security unless you're serious about border security)
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To: george76
Put the tin foil away, folks.

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

72 posted on 10/18/2007 5:51:29 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Enter the FReepathon Mother Freep Nursery Rhymes CONTEST!!! See # 19 on the FReepathon Thread)
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To: Daveinyork

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.


73 posted on 10/18/2007 6:02:26 PM PDT by flaglady47 (Thinking out loud while grinding teeth in political frustration)
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To: george76

the stupid party’s imploding.


74 posted on 10/18/2007 6:04:51 PM PDT by ken21 ( people die + you never hear from them again.)
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To: 1rudeboy
How about this?

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

75 posted on 10/19/2007 5:05:56 AM PDT by fweingart (Tom Tancredo Will Get The Job Done! (How is Mumia Abu-Jamal these days?))
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To: fweingart

Ouch. Score one point. :)


76 posted on 10/19/2007 5:26:39 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: fweingart

Do you have a link handy? I’d like to read the rest. (Or I’ll try and find it myself later).


77 posted on 10/19/2007 5:46:08 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
LOL. Read: "I never bothered to learn anything about him, so I decided to appear on a conservative website and look like an idiot."

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.

78 posted on 10/19/2007 6:17:56 AM PDT by gunservative
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To: Kuksool

“The other Republican, Chris Lauzen, is a conservative Mexican”


Umm, I believe that Lauzen is an American, born and raised. It was his father who was a Mexican, and later became a naturalized U.S. citizen. And wasn’t Lauzen’s mother American?

Kuksool, do you refer to Rick Santorum as “a conservative Italian”? : )


80 posted on 10/19/2007 8:45:07 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (Fred Thompson appears human-sized because he is actually standing a million miles away.)
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