Hastert "played a lead role" in the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1999

[Cali_Democrat]

Hastert was known as a frequent critic of Bill Clinton, and immediately upon taking speakership "played a lead role" in the impeachment of the president.[40]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Hastert

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So Hastert was going after Clinton for a consensual affair with a woman who was of legal age.

Hastert was having sexual relations with an underage boy (legally not consensual) and paid millions of dollars in hush money to keep him quiet.

Republican family values.

[misterhighwasted]

1. He held the power of the Speaker. With that he spouted "Morality"

Asshole.
Stupid fuck.

[Renew Deal]

2. Hasterts affair was from the past.

Just clarifying. But he was actively covering it up.

[riderinthestorm]

12. Just "youthful indiscretions"...

[Renew Deal]

13. Who are you quoting?

Is that your view?

[riderinthestorm]

14. That's a direct quote from Henry Hyde from the impeachment years

it was discovered that Henry Hyde also was covering up an affair while he was prosecuting Bill Clinton. Hyde brushed it off as a "youthful indiscretion" ( he was in his 40s when he had his affair iirc).

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/hyde091798.htm

A bitter new sexual controversy erupted on Capitol Hill yesterday after House Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry J. Hyde (R-Ill.) acknowledged to a left-leaning magazine that he had a five-year affair with a married woman in the 1960s.

Hyde made the admission after the online magazine Salon, which has relentlessly attacked independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr, told his office it was publishing details of his affair with a former beauty stylist named Cherie Snodgrass. Hyde, 74, who would head any inquiry into impeaching President Clinton, is the third Republican lawmaker in two weeks to acknowledge an affair after being confronted by a journalist.

"The statute of limitations has long since passed on my youthful indiscretions," Hyde said in a statement. "Suffice it to say Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr. Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact. The only purpose for this being dredged up now is an obvious attempt to intimidate me and it won't work. I intend to fulfill my constitutional duty and deal judiciously with the serious felony allegations presented to Congress in the Starr report."

[LanternWaste]

3. To add more irony, Hastert was tapped for the Speaker's role only after

To add more irony, Hastert was tapped for the Speaker's role only after the previously tapped-to-be-speaker was found to have had an illicit affair (Livingstone?) who himself was a replacement for Gingrich.

I remember thinking to myself at the time "how many speakers will they go through before they find one righteous enough to cast stones at Clinton's consensual and legal affair?"

[Iliyah]

4. K & R

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Yes,and Politics and Money

produced the biggest Wealth theft in our Nations History. What should be investigated is,how much money did this pervert take during his reign as . Speaker. This POS belongs in Prison.

[Sherman A1]

6. He may very well

end up in prison after what may very well be a very lengthly and hence expensive legal proceeding.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. Yes, it's because Clinton didn't have kinky underage sex

Of course Republicans criticized it. No diapers involved. No sweaty wrestling contact while overpowering minors. Consensual sex with an adult? It ain't natural, I tell you.

[nichomachus]

8. The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine. n/t

[pansypoo53219]

9. shame it came out now + not when he was speaker.

[TheOther95Percent]

10. I love the smell of karma in the morning.

I am not at all religious, but I am sometimes struck by the how often the cosmic universe tends to rain down barrel loads of shit on hypocrites. These last couple of weeks have seen thousands of barrels of shit falling from the heavens and landing on the most deserving candidates.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

11. This post I can get behind

Your hit pieces on Greenwald, no.

Revenge is a dish best served cold. I'm not sure if that's true or not, but at least it's finally being served in Hastert's case. I'm still not sure what I think of what he's been indicted for, but I'm glad that his past hypocrisies are being exposed. And it sounds like there's more to come.