Denny Hastert to quit today @ 2:30 PM EST ... Hmmmmmmm?

Abramoff? Cunningham/Wilkes?

I will never forget that Hastert would not come to the front of the House to hand his gavel
over to Nancy Pelosi.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/15/politics/politico/thecrypt/main3504195.shtml

(The Politico) Former Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) will announce on Thursday that he is retiring from Congress soon, although the exact date of his departure is still unclear, according to House insiders.

Hastert is expected to tell the House Republican Conference of his decision on Thursday afternoon, and then make his final floor speech sometime after that.

snip

The 65-year-old Hastert was first elected to the House in 1986, and he served as a top lieutenant to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) before being vaulted to the speaker's chair in Dec. 1998 following the resignation of former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and the political implosion of Rep. Bob Livingston's (R-La.) political career over infidelity allegations.

Update - CNN is also reporting that Hastert will make his resignation announcement on Thursday. According to CNN, "Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office provided the floor time to the former speaker to address his colleagues."

a GOP Senator and a GOP Rep?

Didn't Hastert buy land that was later developed, thereby raising its value substantially?

probably not long off. As I recall it's land north of his district (which is in the far, far west Chicago suburbs) that the state would have to buy in order to put in a north-south expressway.

and were hounded for years...Hastert comes up clean after his little "scandal"...:wtf:

He was mentioned in some rumors concerning what Sibel Edmonds can't say. Something about some bribes. It's a long shot I know.
His whole departure has been wierd, really wierd. My real guess would be some kind of sex scandal. Oh pah-uke.

read in another thread that Edwards knows about bribery involving Hastert and the nation of Turkey.

My guess is that he wanted to start his thanksgiving meal a week early. I feel so sorry for turkeys, duck, geese and cornish hens in his area.

But my second thought was "ewwww, can't be." :puke:

with a Waxman on the side!

Then he could wear his cool "white coat" that he got on his photo op with chimpy

Jesus, what a pig.

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what a PIGlican!!!

:kick:

Hide the young

not leaving earlier.

Not as vile as DeLay, but definitely a huge minus in a constitutional republic.

Good riddance.

The GOP Congressional leadership and the Bush White House are all tied to several overlapping foreign-financed political influence buying operations. The primary money source is the Saudis, who since 1976 have been funneling funds for illegal covert operations and domestic political dirty tricks to the rogue wing of the G.W. Bush wing of the CIA. There are several other foreign powers involved, including Israel, Turkey, Russia, and China. A group of corrupt defense and intelligence contractors are also part of this.

This is all about the attempted takeover of American politics. Since mid-2003, the loyal side of the American intelligence establishment has been fighting back. Hastert's resignation (indictment pending) is another victory. See,

The Saudi Prince's Secret: Bush, Sr. Sold-Out CIA to Build ...The other major project of the alliance between Bush Sr. rump CIA and the Saudis was to finance and organize the construction in Pakistan of the “Islamic ...
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Cunningham Bribery - Foggo (CIA)-MZM Cases Linked to Saudi Slush ...Cunningham Bribery - Foggo (CIA)-MZM Cases Linked to Saudi Slush Fund Scandal ..... Cheney replays a lot of scripts left over from Bush, Sr. leveymg ...
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The Lincoln Group was located next door to to AEI/PNAC and got the
contract to "buy news" in Iraq and with their new young head getting
millions in a contract from the DoD and then plowing much of that
money back into republican political operations.

The entire crew seems to be up-and-coming disinformation elite. Note, particularly, the connections to Rendon Group and CENTCOM. See, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Group

The size of the contratcts were huge.

It looks like "The Lincoln Group" not only was into propaganda
but was a very efficient little money laundering operation. Tax Money
goes to the DoD, the DoD gives a contract to "The Lincoln Group,"
to buy news (aka propaganda), and then people in the Lincoln group
give big hunks back to various republican operations.

which is acquiring the infrastructure and personnel for a small, private intelligence and neocon political covert ops agency. I'm thinking, a mini-Carlyle Group sans Cerberus-Gabriel. See, http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lincoln_Asset_Management_Group

PNAC/AEI

1150 17th St. NW
Washington, D.C.

Lincoln
1130 17th St. NW
Washington, D.C.

The level of corruption w/ media, energy companies, K street,
the RNC, Saudi Arabia, AIPAC, News Corp, and so on is staggering
in it's size. All about money & power.

These are generic Washington buildings that house a variety of nonprofits, law offices, lobbying groups, etc. I'm not sure that anything significant should be read into their physical proximity. But, who knows?

I would say, nonetheless, that these people lunch with each other fairly frequently.

At the start of the 109th Congress he was no longer in the GOP leadership, Boehner handing Pelosi the gavel was proper procedure.

I thought it was the former chair who passed the gavel.

:)

:P

Wrestling, of course.

Bah-bye.