He impeached Bill Clinton.
You are pretty much off base
Horsehockey....
His kid goes from working in a record store to making 170 large on "K Street:". His wife owned the land (In a trust I believe) that became the exit ramp for a new highway and that was worth 7 digits...
And he is off base? Hastert was a flippin disaster and one of the reasons we got our head handed to us in 06' IMHO...
“He impeached Bill Clinton.
You are pretty much off base”
Earmarks reached a whole new level during his term as Speaker. The federal deficit exploded (with some help from President Bush who couldn’t find his veto pen). Hastert also brought the pork home for highways in his district in locations where he owned land and benefited greatly.
He may have impeached Clinton, but didn’t get conviction in the Senate. Perhaps if the House had incorporated evidence relating to the bribes Clinton received from China in the impeachment charges instead of focusing on perjury in a “sex” case the Senate would have convicted for Clinton for treason instead of giving him a pass on perjury.
Once would not say a DA is successful for obtaining an indictment of a criminal, success is defined as winning the conviction. The same holds true for impeachment. Impeachment of Clinton was one of many Hastert failures.
He bought up land he knew the government would need to purchase and then sold it to the government for a healthy profit.
He also bought a parcel of land and he and partners decided to build a residential community on it including homes, some small businesses, and a school. The only problem was that the land was in farm country with no main roads leading to it. Hastert solved that problem by attaching an earmark of over $200 million into a federal highway bill to build a parkway that just happened to access his planned community.
I'm sure the problem Hastert and others in the GOPE have with Newt is that he knows where the bodies are buried and who put them there.