Foley/Hastertgate Day 6
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Embattled House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) has told conservative activist Paul Weyrich that he would resign if it would help the Republicans, Congressional Quarterly is reporting.
"He said if he thought that resigning would be helpful to the Republicans maintaining the majority, he would do it," Weyrich said in an interview. "But he did not think it would helpful for Republicans."
And...
(this happened yesterday)
House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) was scheduled to be interviewed tonight by Chicago radio host John Williams. His previous radio appearances had been exclusively with conservative sympathizers like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Williams is a moderate who planned to ask tough questions. But Hastert never showed. As the scheduled time for the interview approached, Bubala said, Taylor called several times claiming that Hastert was on an important call and likely might not be available in time for the interview. But according to Bubala, an employee for WGN’s sister television station said that while Hastert was supposedly on a telephone call, a WGN cameraman was filming Hastert arriving at and entering his home in Illinois.
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Hey thanks for the "I'll resign if it helps my party", talk about a lame setup for his eventual demise. Come on Hastert, you are not fooling anyone, don't act like a marytr here, you are guilty and are going down........I predict by 3pm tomorrow Hastert will have resigned as Speaker of the House.
Posted by mardenhill 10/05/2006 08:30:00 AM
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