Rep. Boehner Points Finger at Hastert re: Foley

[sabra]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2006/10/boehner_points_.html

Boehner Points Finger at the Speaker

ABC's Teddy Davis reports: In a radio interview with 700 WLW radio in Cincinnati, House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) placed responsibility for the Foley matter not being handled properly on House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL).

"I believe I talked to the Speaker and he told me it had been taken care of," said Boehner. "And, and, and my position is it's in his corner, it's his responsibility. The Clerk of the House who runs the page program, the Page Board—all report to the Speaker. And I believe it had been dealt with."

Please note that by saying that he talked with the Speaker about Foley, Boehner is reversing course and going back to his original position.

On Friday, Boehner told the Washington Post that he "had learned in late spring of inappropriate e-mails Foley sent to the page, a boy from Louisiana, and that he promptly told Hastert, who appeared to know already of the concerns. Hours later, Boehner contacted The Post to say he could not be sure he had spoken with Hastert." LINK

According to today's radio interview, Boehner has gone back to saying that he did talk to Hastert about Foley.

[AndyA]

1. Ah, the first Domino topples.

:popcorn:

[helderheid]

2. This is getting uglier and uglier

[rodeodance]

3. oh those fingers!----hey Bohner---you were accountable also-as a leader

[cascadiance]

20. He's right though. Hastert IS primarily responsible for page program...

He has the final call on who gets selected for the page programs. 2/3rds of those he selected this year were recommended by Republicans as indicated in this article, where one kid had "hero worship" for him and also when he did that infamous swearing in of Brian Bilbray.

http://www.timesgazette.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=139676&TM=32985.93

7/26/2006 9:06:00 AM
Page program provides opportunities

The congressional page program is a wonderful learning opportunity for high school students to serve their country while seeing firsthand how our government works.

Pages can serve in one of four terms: the fall semester (September-January), the spring semester (February-June) or one of two three-to-four week summer sessions.

Selection is a very competitive process. Members select the most exceptional students with strong academic qualifications and a record of achievement in extracurricular activities or public service. The speaker of the House makes the final selection among those nominated by members.

The most recent "class" of Pages consisted of 66 students, 44 selected by Republican House members.

...


Josh recalled two of his favorite moments during his tenure as a page. One was watching the special ceremony to swear in Rep. Brian Bilbray, after he won California's 50th District. His other favorite memory is having his picture taken with House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert.

Pages are employees of the U.S. House of Representatives, and play an important role in the legislative process. Pages are required to live at the Page Residence Hall under the supervision of a director, assistant director and proctors who reside on the premises.

...

Boehner is all too eager to point fingers, but folks are right that Hastert should be going down first!

[niceypoo]

37. Boehnr, or whatever his name is, implicates himself in his own statement..

"I believe I talked to the Speaker and he told me it had been taken care of," said Boehner

Aaahh....so Boehner knew about it BUT he was assured that SOMEONE ELSE had taken care of it SO HE DIDN'T feel obligated to do so himself?

Bye Bye Boner!!

[moc]

4. Run away! Run away! Run away!

:popcorn:

[DrDan]

5. damn I wish they would get their stories straight

this is getting very confusing

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

10. LOL, where are KKKarl's "brilliant" lockstep, talking points????

:rofl: MKJ

[madokie]

13. To me the first reason to not tell a lie is because they

are hard to keep straight, after a while one tends to forget what they said when. I had a co/friend worker who couldn't tell a truth even if it was the better of the options he was faced with. These guys remind me of him.

[havocmom]

6. Does he still want the job?

Who was it that tipped off ABC? Anybody hear yet?

GOP seems to be sticking toe to test waters for 'liberals did it' meme.

Let us never forget that the GOP projects their vices and actions on...
the liberals.

Anybody hear how ABC came to have the story and materials to back it up? :evilgrin:

[verse18]

7. HEY BOYS and GIRLS!! It's time to play the BLAME GAME!!!!!

Yeeeeeeahhhhhh!!!!Blame Game!Blame Game!Blame Game!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

8. Gotta K & R the corruption eroding from the inside. To the repubs,

your circular firing squads are much more deadly than ours. We Dems have substance and character, allowing us to rise from our occasional internal squabbles.

You all have dark, empty cores, causing you to crumple when challenged, especially by fellow occupants of the dark, disgusting corners where you reside.

MKJ

:kick:

[Buddyblazon]

9. WHEEEEEeeeeeeee!

Let the circular firing squad commence!

[YOY]

11. What movie is that from?

City of God?

[Buddyblazon]

14. I don't know...

but my friend uses it to "pop" friends comment cherry's on myspace.

As in "BANG! Your cherry done been popped!"

Everytime I see it, though it's kind of a disturbing pic, I for some reason find myself giggling uncontrollably!

[YOY]

24. I did a little web searching and it is from 'City of God'

A Brazilian film about children's gangs living in abject poverty.

Dadinho - Li'l Dice is the kid with the gun. He's about the nastiest thing you've ever seen...if you watch the film you'd see what I mean: An 8-year-old psychopath with a revolver and a little in the way of morals and conscience.

[Buddyblazon]

25. Well my friend (the one that uses that pic)...

and I are both film fans.

I let him know so we can both watch it. It is a rather disturbing pic...no?

Thanks.

[rodeodance]

12. Boehner Points Finger at the Speaker---Love the Headline

[Buddyblazon]

17. As in...

"Hey Boehner...is that a finger in your pocket? Or are you just happy to see me?"

[Beetwasher]

15. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

There is no laugh emoticon that could do this justice.

[Kingshakabobo]

16. Like good little fascists, they turn on each other…

I like how Boehner says he believes it was dealt with…..dealt with how? Was there an investigation? Wouldn’t you have been aware of an investigation? Did Foley resign 2 years ago? Did you read a bout it in the paper? Was there a criminal investigation?

Why didn’t you follow up on all these missing things? Oh yeah, by “dealt with” you mean swept under the rug so Foley could go on diddling children. I get it.

How WAS it dealt with?

[Double T]

18. Blame, denial, recanting statements, finger pointing, backstabbing.....

do the rethugs ALSO eat their young???

[Hepburn]

26. Ummmmmm....

...from what has been going on, it might be that the repukes MOLEST their young rather than eat them!

What a party full of sick, dirty, lying bastards. Hope they go down in flames. It's about time.

[Kahuna]

19. Fat Bastard: "I don't remember...". Boner: "I believe...." These

statements are "tells" that they parsing words (like Condi) so that they can't be accused of lying. When the truth comes out they will only be accused of having faulty memories (lie Rove and Libby).

[formercia]

21. Boner the Vestal Virgin

I bet :evilgrin:

[bvar22]

22. Dealt with?

Well, yes it WAS dealth with....
The Republicans collected $100,000 dollars hush money from Foley.

[Jim__]

23. It's not my job, man.

Don't blame what happenedtothose kids on me. I kicked it over to hastert. I covered my ass.

[truebrit71]

27. Hasturd is toast.....he will be gone by the weekend...

...

[Hippo_Tron]

28. We're witnessing Hastert without Tom DeLay pulling the strings

If DeLay were still running the show, you can bet that every Republican in the leadership would be on TV trying to cover Hastert's ass instead of their own.

BTW if Hastert was complicit in this, then I'm sure DeLay was as well. Any chance that we could tack another 5 to 10 years onto his prison sentence?

[izzybeans]

29. Rightwingers confuse homosexuality and pedophilia. Maybe former wrestling

coaches have a few skeletons that would require conflating wrestling coach and pederasty. I'm starting to wonder if Hastert's silence on this issue was more about self-preservation rather than just partisan enabling.

[RedEarth]

30. Flip flop............

[Lone_Star_Dem]

31. It would appear the are now in "every man for himself" mode.

Hold on folks, this ride isn't over yet! :rofl:

[Pachamama]

32. Mr. Boehner- Those who live in Glass houses shouldnt' throw rocks...

Your next up Boner Boy....Just because Fat Bastard is going to go down, doesn't mean things are not going to stick to you....

:eyes:

[WI_DEM]

33. Boner wants to run for fat bastard's job but he's in this up to his neck

too

[Bluzmann57]

34. Maybe they think if they sacrifice Hastert

then the whole thing will just go away. I don't think so. Sex sells and the media is having a field day with this. Besides, it seems that Dems have finally grown a spine and are demanding answers.
On edit-sez may sell, but so does sex. Typo in other words

[lies and propaganda]

35. the fucking rats jump ship!

looks like someone wants a promotion.

No Child molested under Boehner! :evilgrin:

[DUBYASCREWEDUS]

36. Is it just me?

Or do Republicans eat their own?

[mom cat]

38. You beat me to it. They are having a veritable feeding frenzy on

each other!

[LostInAnomie]

39. I love sex scandal stories that have the word "finger" in the title.

It always gives me a immature giggle.

On a side note: I would avoid Boehner's fingers at all costs. Can you imagine where those things have been!? Let alone what they smell like. I guessing it's a mixture of cigarette smoke, and astro-glide.

On another side note: I love how when spell checking Boehner's name comes up as "Boner's".

[livingonearth]

40. Damage control is fully underway

Hastert was interviewed by Limblah(the rethugs main propaganda tool) today.

Below is an excerpt. Notice how Hastert is all over the place with his answer. He talks about the economy, 911, national security (the rethug talking points) and doesn't stay on the subject. He never really talks about what, if anything, was done about Foley when they were told of the IMs the first time, only what was done when things became public. Yet, he somehow attempts to confuse the two instances. Is it just me, or does this man seem like someone who is not telling the whole truth? This will make you sick, especially the comment at the end by Limblah:


RUSH: We're happy to be joined now by the Speaker of the House, Denny Hastert. Mr. Speaker, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to speak to you again, sir.

SPEAKER HASTERT: Thanks, Rush. Great to be with you today.

RUSH: Now, I guess the big news is, the Washington Times' admittedly conservative editorial page has asked for you to step down and resign, and you have said you're not going to do that. Correct?

SPEAKER HASTERT: Well, yeah. I'm not going to do that. What we've tried to do is -- focused on this Foley thing is -- do the right thing. We had two messages. There were two pieces of paper out there, one that we knew about and we acted on; one that happened in 2003 we didn't know about, but somebody had it, and, you know, they're trying -- and they drop it the last day of the session, you know, before we adjourn on an election year. Now, we took care of Mr. Foley. We found out about it, asked him to resign. He did resign. He's gone. We asked for an investigation. We've done that. We're trying to build better protections for these page programs. But, you know, this is a political issue in itself, too, and what we've tried to do as the Republican Party is make a better economy, protect this country against terrorism -- and we've worked at it ever since 9/11, worked with the president on it -- and there are some people that try to tear us down. We are the insulation to protect this country, and if they get to me it looks like they could affect our election as well.

RUSH: Well, it's clear to me that what the Democrats are doing here in some sort of cooperation with some in the media is to suppress conservative turnout by making it look like you guys knew this all along but because you're so interested in holding the House rather than protecting children that you covered it up.

SPEAKER HASTERT: Yeah.



The whole thing can be found at http://www.rushlimbaugh.com

I must go shower now after having been at Rush's site.

[civildisoBDence]

41. Denny was on Boortz this morning also

How dirty do you have to be when you have to use Boortz and Limbaugh to clean yourself up?????

Newsprism

[eviltwin2525]

42. "Oh, look, Dennis....there's some lovely filth over here!"

"Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"

[ArmchairMeme]

43. Tell him to go away - that solves the problem!

When I saw that Boehner said he thought that spoke to Hastert and said "I believe it had been dealt with." Is that sort of the Catholic method?

I remember the outrage when many Catholic priests had molested many of the children in their parishes the Catholic church dealth with it by reassigning the priests to another parish. The strategy worked for many years but it did not solve the problem as the number of children being abused kept growing and growing until it could no longer be swept under the rug.