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what occurs too me as this story went from
dismissed -
"over-friendly emails" - tony snow, saturday
to nuclear -
"House Speaker Dennis Hastert must do the only right thing, and resign his speakership at once"
WaTi op-ed, today
is that hastert didn't suffer a lapse of judgement in this matter; in fact, i believe he probably didn't remember hearing this last year.
why?
like alter boys and catholic priests, this has been going on forever, TOLERATED and ACCEPTED. yeah, foley's chasing some young page, big fucking news, get me a bourbon.
(probably the roman and greek senators slept with their pages as well.)
being a member of congress carries many privileges.
if a congressional page has a sweet ass, he or she could be considered a perk.

anyway; couldn't have happened to a nicer political party.

p.s.

below mentioned "speaker hastert’s third in line for the presidency..."
o.k., so bush and cheney suffer simultaneous fatal heart attacks AND the speaker of the house is for some reason unable to serve as president; THEN...