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Dennie

by Tim F|  October 3, 20064:13 pm| 12 Comments

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Completing the circle for recent Republican disasters, the president weighs in:

Bush expressed confidence in [Hastert]’s ability to resolve the matter, calling him a “father, teacher, coach.”

“I know Denny Hastert. I meet with him a lot. He is a father, teacher, coach who cares about the children of this country,” Bush said. “I know that he wants all the facts to come out.”

[…] “I know that he wants all the facts to come out and he wants to ensure that these children up there on Capitol Hill are protected,” the president said. “I’m confident he will provide whatever leadership he can to law enforcement in this investigation.”

Heckuva job.

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  1. 1.

    Skip

    October 3, 2006 at 4:22 pm

    father, teacher, coach.

    WRESTLING coach. . . .

    Hmm, didn’t Rummy like rolling on the rubber too?

  2. 2.

    The Other Steve

    October 3, 2006 at 4:23 pm

    Hastert’s Campaign Manager is probably frantically trying to call the Whitehouse right now begging them to shut Bush up.

  3. 3.

    sglover

    October 3, 2006 at 4:29 pm

    How vulnerable is Hastert in his district? Is there a viable Dem challenger in that race?

  4. 4.

    Mr Furious

    October 3, 2006 at 4:35 pm

    “”Rafael Palmeiro is a friend. He testified in public and I believe him,” Bush said
    “He’s the kind of person that’s going to stand up in front of the klieg lights and say he didn’t use steroids, and I believe him. Still do.”

  5. 5.

    tBone

    October 3, 2006 at 4:37 pm

    “He is a father, teacher, coach who cares about the children of this country,” Bush said. “In fact, he cares so much that whenever there’s a hurricane, he emails children and asks them to send a picture so he knows they’re OK. Oh, no, wait, that was somebody else.”

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    chopper

    October 3, 2006 at 4:42 pm

    Bush expressed confidence in [Hastert]’s ability to resolve the matter, calling him a “father, teacher, coach.”

    yeah, a father who gave one of his sons a car for xmas and the other one a t-shirt. guess which one was the ‘troublemaker’. nice.

  7. 7.

    Steve

    October 3, 2006 at 4:42 pm

    Hastert’s challenger is John Laesch. He seems like a good candidate, and has support from Daily Kos and the netroots, but I don’t think this has polled as a particularly close race in the past. Of course, it’s all up for grabs at this point.

  8. 8.

    ThymeZone

    October 3, 2006 at 4:49 pm

    Bush has looked into Hastert’s soul.

  9. 9.

    Tax Analyst

    October 3, 2006 at 5:03 pm

    Yep, Tim…it sounds to me like another “Medal of Freedom” trinket is being fashioned at this very moment.

  10. 10.

    Richard 23

    October 3, 2006 at 6:00 pm

    I heard an interview with John Laesch. The Young Turks suggested that he check out and possibly use the fact that Hastert’s web page still had that protecting children in cyberspace stuff on his web page.

    Heck of a job indeed. Or should I say “haand job?”

  11. 11.

    Christian

    October 3, 2006 at 11:09 pm

    Hastert isn’t my district but one over.

    I can tell you that before this, the Chicago Tribune ran a big story about a Denny earmark for a road project that accidently on purpose netted him some big real estate appreciation on some previously useless farmland.

    Not that having Vanity Fair run a story about how the Turks brag about bribing Hastert could have helped.

    (for more on both see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hastert)

    I don’t know how bad it is that it will take bumbling a perv case that will bring him down while those two previous items didn’t seem to have a huge impact.

  12. 12.

    merlallen

    October 5, 2006 at 5:01 am

    Bush trusts him because he’s a coach?
    What if he wasn’t a coach? Would Bush distrust him then? When I saw him on CNN I could hardly stop laughing.

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