police came after Foley and he protected him?LTS TRN 2 wrote:To his credit, Hastert stood up like a man: "The Young Buck Stops Here"
He also did a heckuva job in protecting his fellow house member Jefferson when those mean policemen came snooping around. Is this another actual example of the word "irony"? Sure is.
No, he protested very loudly when the FBI raided William Jefferson's offices. It was a truly rare instance of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill. And I'm sure it had nothing whatsoever to do with Hastert's worries over the contiuing fallout from the Abramoff scandal.titlover wrote:police came after Foley and he protected him?LTS TRN 2 wrote:To his credit, Hastert stood up like a man: "The Young Buck Stops Here"
He also did a heckuva job in protecting his fellow house member Jefferson when those mean policemen came snooping around. Is this another actual example of the word "irony"? Sure is.
Given what little respect Bush has for the constitution, I don't see this going anywhere.House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) told President Bush yesterday that he is concerned the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) raid on Rep. William Jefferson’s (D-La.) congressional office over the weekend was a direct violation of the Constitution.
Here's a portion of Reynolds' press conference earlier this week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o946ObydUO8&NRBSmack wrote:Just got done listening to the local GOP spinmisters on WHAM. To say the least, they are not feeling good about Reynold's chances against Jack Davis at this time. When Bob Lonsberry is throwing a Republican under the bus, feel free to assume he's in trouble.Terry in Crapchester wrote:The guy in my district, Tom Reynolds, and his double chin ought to go as well. http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthis ... te_up.htmlLTS TRN 2 wrote:No, just Hastert, for starters.
If I am Jack Davis, I'm pushing that press conference out on the TV non stop for the next 3 weeks.Terry in Crapchester wrote:Here's a portion of Reynolds' press conference earlier this week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o946ObydUO8&NR
Using little kids as human shields = pathetic. Time for this ass-clown to go.
True, but all of Reynols' district is in WHAM's broadcast range. I just cited the story as a classic example of man bites dog. It is not that WHAM is the ultimate power broker in the WNY area, it is that when Democrats and Bob Lonsberry are ripping into you, AND you're a Republican, you've done fucked up REAL good.Having said that, however, I'm not very confident that'll happen. This is probably the reddest Congressional district in this state. If a Democrat can pull more than 25% of the vote in a Congressional election here, it's a moral victory. And while Flanders does live in Reynolds' district, the majority of his listening audience at WHAM does not.
Yep, and even were he to win, he'll have to be handled so delicately to continue his appeal to his red district voters that he'll essentialy be a Republican on the hot button issues. But, were he in my district, I'd take him over the pedophile enabler Reynolds.Jack Davis isn't a terribly better alternative, btw. Look up DINO in the dictionary and you'll see his picture there. His radio spots make him sound like a senile old man talking to himself, and he's running on a single issue (anti-NAFTA). But then again, that's probably the kind of Democrat who'll run best in this district, and his track record out front in '04 (41%) says so.
http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20061007 ... -5175r.htmWashington Times wrote:Oct. 7, 2006 at 11:55AM
U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office met with former Rep. Mark Foley about his contact with pages well before Hastert claimed, a staffer says.
Hastert Chief of Staff Scott Palmer met with the Florida Republican congressman at the Capitol to discuss complaints about Foley's behavior toward pages long before November 2005, a current congressional staff member told The Washington Post.
Hastert had said his office first confronted Foley about "over-friendly" sexually explicit e-mails he had sent to a teenage Louisiana boy in November 2005.
The staff member's account buttresses the position of onetime Foley Chief of Staff Kirk Fordham, who said this week he had appealed to Palmer in 2003 or earlier to intervene, after Fordham's own efforts to stop Foley's behavior failed.
Fordham said Foley and Palmer met within days to discuss the allegations.
Palmer said this week that the meeting Fordham described "did not happen."
Latest poll is that he's down by 15 points. http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20 ... 033841.asp But there's still a large number of undecideds.Degenerate wrote:Reynolds is toast, btw. He's down double-digits and dropping faster than Mark Foley in a high school boys locker room.