Hastert will step down.
By on Nov 8th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
Hastert will step down.
“House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) will not seek reelection to the Republican leadership when his members return as a minority party after taking heavy losses in Tuesday’s elections, a Republican official tells TIME.”
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Here comes the Republican come-back. Get ready for tomorrow. Have all your excuses lined up.
November 8th, 2006 at 2:04 pmThey stole the election again!
Its a Bush plot!
We were disenfranchised!
Comment by Happy Guy — November 6, 2006 @ 10:15 am
Don’t get excited, everyone. Same policies, different feces. Er, I mean faces…
November 8th, 2006 at 2:04 pmFat Hastert must resign from the House and retire for good of nation!
November 8th, 2006 at 2:04 pmgreat idea!
November 8th, 2006 at 2:06 pmIt’s “hard work” carrying water for the lying sack of s**t in the MonkeyPalace, isn’t it Denny?
LOL!!!
November 8th, 2006 at 2:07 pmDenny now wants to sit in the back row, and make as little a target as possible.
November 8th, 2006 at 2:10 pmGood. The entire House GOP leadership needs to go…They betrayed the Reagan/Gingrich Revolution and bear much responsibility for last night’s “thumping.” Go away, Denny.
November 8th, 2006 at 2:10 pmI hear quacking. Anyone else?
November 8th, 2006 at 2:11 pmCould this be what they mean by “cut and run”?
November 8th, 2006 at 2:15 pmBe very, very wary of Boehner………..
My advise to the new leadership in Congress is to meticulously and extensively build the criminal cases against all of the outgoing Cabinet members, and culpable Legislators, to wait patiently for the end of Dubious’ reign before bringing them to trial.
In large part it was the post Nixon pardons which allowed many of these goons to attain the power they lost yesterday.
And that is exactly what we have been telling you for years, but you were too arrogant to listen to a different point of view. People like you are another part of the problem.
November 8th, 2006 at 2:17 pmThey betrayed the intellectual fraud known as the Reagan/Gingrich Revolution and bear much responsibility for last night’s “thumping.†Go away, Denny.
Comment by Exley —
I fixed your post, you seem to have had a keyboard malfunction; I’d get a new one if I were you.
November 8th, 2006 at 2:17 pmOoooh, talk about damaged pride.
November 8th, 2006 at 2:19 pmI bet Happy Ass has already grokked a new sockpuppet
Poor Poor exley, you must be half way through your medication and fifth of scotch and can still type.
What a tolerance you have.
BTW, How is your crow tasting?
Still saluting failure?
You are a loathesome fake American
November 8th, 2006 at 2:21 pm#1 BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
That is hilarious. Where is Daryll? Last I heard he was on suicide watch. Good riddance to those remaining brownshirt idealogues like Exley
November 8th, 2006 at 2:23 pm#6
That will be a little difficult given his size. LOL:-)
November 8th, 2006 at 2:24 pmWhat happened to the WE Exley?
It used to be WE are gonna beat the Dems.
Now, it’s they who bear the responsibility for the loss to the Dems.
You really cannot stand to lose an argument or be wrong in any way can you Exley. Do you also shrug responsibility at work and home, blame the co-worker, kick the dog for a bad day at work, and hate your neighbors, do you blame everyone but you for the worlds ills?
How is that Exley?
November 8th, 2006 at 2:25 pm]-[E]-[!
Even Cheney couldn’t miss that face!
November 8th, 2006 at 2:31 pmYah, and he used to tell me how he had this cup of wisdom to drink from! makes me wanna use the google and find it again!!
ROTFL!!
November 8th, 2006 at 2:33 pmBwahahahhahahaaaaa!!!!
November 8th, 2006 at 2:36 pmWHAT A BUNCH OF WHIMPS
The GOPers, like Exley, and now Limpballs, claimed all along that they stand by their ideals.
Now, after yesterday’s ass-whooping they are falling all over themselves to distance themselves from the party of “Family Values” , “Moral Majority” and “America’s Guardians”
Here is what Limpballs had to say
Hey Limpballs, here are your own words biting you in hte ass you “linguini spined”, “maggot infested” bastard.
Now go pop as much of those drugs you bouhgt in a parking lot without prescription.
November 8th, 2006 at 2:36 pm#17 Actually, Boo-Dog, you are incorrect….as usual. I never predicted the Republicans would hold the House. Indeed, I said that history indicated the GOP would indeed lost at least one house. In fact, during the Foley scandal, I wrote numerous postings saying that Hastert and the House GOP leadership should resign, that they had gotten arrogant, and that if the GOP lost the midterms, the responsibility would be their’s alone.
Here ya go, Boo-Dog. I accept your retraction.
#27….I have steeled myself for that possibility. History indicates at least one of the houses will go to the Dems. Even the great and extremely popular Ronald Reagan saw the Senate go Democratic during his second-term, mid-term elections in 1986.
Comment by Exley — September 28, 2006 @ 12:18 pm
November 8th, 2006 at 2:37 pm#17… Here’s more for you, Boo-Dog:
OF COURSE he should resign! Get out, Denny…You won’t be missed.
Comment by Exley — October 2, 2006 @ 2:54 pm
This disgusting incident is SO going to turn off the base of the party, keeping so many religious conservatives home on Election Day, that it is not even a question any more — The GOP loses both houses of Congress…and deservedly so. But the political consequences are secondary. The main concern is that poor kid who came to D.C. to have the experience of a lifetime and see first-hand how our government works, and instead was subject to vile and demeaning harassment from this pervert and predator.
Comment by Exley — October 2, 2006 @ 3:49 pm
Again, I accept your apology, Dog.
November 8th, 2006 at 2:42 pmCheney must be hiding in Wyoming for another reason > my bet since Rummy resigned, then it means that Cheney is with his lesbian daughter deciding the best way for him to resign too. Hunting trip is just a cover, so Cheney will announce his resignation claiming health reasons. Bush baby is being left behind to take entire blame for Iraq fiasco and to be tried as a war criminal too. Rummy and Cheney are getting away like banditos > lol.
November 8th, 2006 at 2:42 pmHere ya go, Boo-Dog. I accept your retraction.
LMAO!!!
A possibility is NOT WISDOM!!
SOME WISDOM!!!
Is that the whole of your teachings?
LMAO!!!
November 8th, 2006 at 2:43 pm#17, And one more for the Dog Named Boo:
On a political level, because this incident shows how the arrogance of power corrupts. Hastert and other members of the GOP leadership thought they could “handle†or “finesse†the situation, seemingly without giving any thought to the human costs of their willful inaction. I have long championed term limits for members of the House and the Senate so as to keep this kind of institutional rot away from Congress. Hastert and Foley and God knows who else have let this country down, have let the hopes of true conservatives down, and, most importantly, let the hopes of this child and his family down.
Inexcusable. Resign, Mr. Speaker. Take responsibility for what transpired on your watch.
Comment by Exley — October 2, 2006 @ 5:20 pm
No need to apologize again, Boo-Dog….I already forgive you.
November 8th, 2006 at 2:45 pmDenny’s serving us up his part of the Grand Slam breakfast of amazing news today!
Thanks man, but don’t expect a tip.
November 8th, 2006 at 2:45 pmExley, you got no wisdom. opinions and possibilitys are not truth.
Knowledge is not Wisdom
Wisdom is truth.
And YOU aint got it.
You don’t even have anything to teach ya nutty little pasty asperger.
November 8th, 2006 at 2:47 pmOf course you say that NOW!!
What about in 2004 or 2000??
ROTFL!!!!
November 8th, 2006 at 2:49 pmThe entire House GOP leadership needs to go
Comment by Exley —
True enough….and Pryce, R-Ohio, just quit her GOP leadership post…..but then, what’s left in the pork barrel for them to draw from? It’s not like there’s going to be a whole lotta fresh goper faces slithering in in January…..just the same trash (minus 30-something of course)….speaking of which…you still have mean Jean….heh heh heh….
November 8th, 2006 at 2:50 pmWhat don’t you say that about Dubya??
LMAO!!!
November 8th, 2006 at 2:50 pmBOOOOOOO FRIIIIIIICKKKKKKENNNNN HOOOOOOOO
GOODBYE GASTURD
November 8th, 2006 at 2:51 pmGOD knows YOU VOTED FOR THEM!!
LMAO!!
November 8th, 2006 at 2:52 pm#32 Dog Named Boo wrote: “Of course you say that NOW!!”
Wrong again, Dog…I didn’t say that “now.” Read the dates–I said it more than a month ago on October 2.
Apology accepted, ya big galoot!
November 8th, 2006 at 2:54 pmThat won’t save the pedophile protector
So this good Christian monster thinks that the series of indictments and subpoenas will some how miss him if he flees?
Good fu*ken grief, Christian monsters have no shame.
November 8th, 2006 at 2:56 pmExley Exlax
Bye BYe enjoy whatever new blog you find to spread your teachings and wisdom upon, and please try not to get drunk and spill your cup of Wisdom will you?
Thanks for playing and have a nice life.
November 8th, 2006 at 2:58 pm#39 Dog,
Why would you think I would be going anywhere? Nah, I like it here…The next two years are going to fun!
November 8th, 2006 at 3:04 pmHi, Exley. How you doin’. Like your bitter pill you had to swallow this morning? Yeah, I know, the Senate isn’t in the bag yet, but you know what? Right now, at this moment in time, I don’t care. You are now the laughing stock of this blog. Why are you here? Redstate is waiting. Go. You’ll like it there. Besides, shouldn’t you be listening to Rash Limburger for your talking points of the week? How’re you guys gonna spin Tuesday.
I just proudly put my little American Flag back up outside my door here at work. The USA once again is a Nation of Laws…and if the Dems are smart, they’ll keep it that way. Exley, it wasn’t your base who lost you the election. Guess who it was?
ME. You know what I’m registered as? An INDEPENDANT. It’s my people you lost. So you know what? If the Dems are strong performers in 2006 to 2008, clean up the crap, make us respected in the world again, reign in the rediculous spending (even if it means raising taxes), and act like center-left people to counter the hard-right policies that have torn our nation apart for the last 6 years, you have many more of these days in your future. How’s it feel, Exley? I hope you like the bitter taste of defeat. Now you know how the Dems and us Independants feel. It’s nice to be on the winning side again.
So go back to wallowing in your sorrow and throwing your darts at your picture of Clinton tacked on the wall. The Dems will begin the process of running this country properly.
November 8th, 2006 at 3:05 pm#41 Welcome Jeremy…Well, you are right. “It’s nice to be on the winning side again.”Oh, I am sure of it….I have been on both sides and losing is not fun. But I also understand that this is the way it goes in politics. Ya win some and ya lose some. Plus, as I demonstrated above, I was pretty certain the GOP would take a big hit in this election anyway, so, I am hardly shocked. Now, we must move forward and get ready to join the battle anew in 2008.
Your posting contains the necessary: If the Dems are strong performers in 2006 to 2008,…That’s a big “if,” my friend. We shall see.
Remember in 1986, the Democrats took over the Senate from GOP control and many people were sure that in 1988 the Dems would also capture the White House. And what happened? In 1988, Republican candidate George H.W. Bush was overwhelmingly elected president.
So, let us see what happens over the next two years. It should be very interesting. But rest ssured, Jeremy, I will be here discussing these matters at TP all along the way.
November 8th, 2006 at 3:17 pmNow c’mon guys, Exley has feelings…….
Of inadequacy.
November 8th, 2006 at 3:18 pmI woke up this morning feeling like a 500-lb weight had been lifted from my shoulders. It wasn’t until 3pm that I knew it was Denny Hasbeen.
November 8th, 2006 at 3:19 pmNext, I’m waiting for Armageddon because the scriptures are fulfilling itself (turmoil).
November 8th, 2006 at 3:21 pmNext, I’m waiting for Armageddon bec
Comment by Daryll
I think Daryll just got Raptured in the middle of his post.
November 8th, 2006 at 3:36 pmArmageddon is going to be one hell of a party.
November 8th, 2006 at 3:39 pmGuys, gals, I’m just as happy as anyone about the election results and the fact that Rumsfeld has resigned, but please don’t make us all look like asses. Show some integrity and class with your posts. We won. There’s no need to rub it in and name-call. Aren’t we, as peace-loving liberals, above that?
November 8th, 2006 at 3:39 pm#45 – ” In 1988, Republican candidate George H.W. Bush was overwhelmingly elected president.”
Exley, I don’t consider a 53% to 45% an overwhelming election. In fact, it’s relatively underwhelming!
Overwhelming is Nixon’s 60% compared to McGovern’s 37%.
Overwhelming is Johnson’s 61% compared to Goldwater’s 35%.
Overwhelming is Roosevelt’s 60% compared to Landon’s 36%.
For something to be “overwheling” I’d say it needs to be above 60% for the winner. A difference of 8% is quite underwhelming.
November 8th, 2006 at 3:45 pm#48 – Nope, that was in 1994 when the Republican’s took majority status.
That was in 2000 when Pres. Bush was slected by the Supreme Court.
What you’re experiencing is the return of democracy where there are two parties, not just one.
By the way, you can’t evenbring yourself to say “Gee, looks like I was wrong when I predicted that the Reps would remain majority.”
Bitter apples do not become you, Daryll.
November 8th, 2006 at 3:47 pm#53 Democrat Soldier….I think you can call a 40-state to 10-state, 426-111 Electoral Vote victory “overwhelming.”
The Quest for the Presidency – The 1988 Campaign called Bush’s 1988 victory “a split hair short of a landslide.”
In any case, it was a solid win.
November 8th, 2006 at 3:53 pmGood ‘o fatboy Has-tard the basterd will not be in power any longer.
Regarding: #45 – †In 1988, Republican candidate George H.W. Bush was overwhelmingly elected president.â€
I can say, one that lived through that election Roger Ales Lee Atwater (Roves brain) used the same trademark Republican dirty tricks against Dukakis that they use now. The difference is that the Democrats not knowing how to respond to this type of politicing found themselves always on the defensive and thus no real articulated message. What really turned the race was Dukakis reply to the question from Bernie Shaw: asked whether he would favor the death penalty for someone who had raped and murdered wife, Kitty. “No, I do not,” Dukakis replied and went on to describe the reasons for his long-standing opposition to capital punishment.
He came across as not being sincere. People voted for the lesser of two evils in thier eye’s at the time. Your point isn’t valid.
November 8th, 2006 at 4:07 pmI hope Has’turd…
…and ALL of the right wing inbred Bush worshipping Repulsivescum CONNEDservatives have …
…chocolate flavored guns…
…they’ll go down smoother…
November 8th, 2006 at 4:28 pmcp1 #52
…relax…
…let the troops have their fun…
…they earned it…
November 8th, 2006 at 4:31 pm#57 – “… It was a solid win.”
I tend to look more at actual votes rather than electoral votes when considering presidential elections. But I will concede that Pres. HW Bush’s win was decisive.
November 8th, 2006 at 4:39 pmWhat will that step register on the rhicter scale?
November 8th, 2006 at 5:33 pmAbout time the Fat Bastard steps down. This is one turkey not worth eating.
November 8th, 2006 at 8:43 pmIf the Democrats remove the Republican gag from around Sibel Edmonds mouth and threat of jail so that she can tell the truth in public, Dennis Hastert will be tried and found guilty of treason for working as a foreign agent on Turkey’s behalf!
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