Chip, chip... Is Hastert being cut loose by Repubs to float away???

[Blackhatjack]

It would appear that Repubs are ready to offer up Hastert's Speakership of the House as a sacrifice to appease the outraged public.

Why not? Hastert retains his seat, Speakership will likely change with majority control shifting to the Democrats after the midterm elections, and the rest of Repubs in Leadership will attempt to use him as a scapegoat for their own cover to win their own elections.

Boehner reversing his story yet again, blaming Hastert is the telltale sign.

[Kittycat]

1. Links?

Where is Boehner reversing and blaming Hastert?

[Hav]

3. .

I suppose it can be interpreted this way according to this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2295315

"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."

[marmar]

7. Here's one clip...

Boehner: Hastert said he dealt with Foley

RAW STORY
Published: Tuesday October 3, 2006

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House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has claimed that he spoke to Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) about the Mark Foley affair, RAW STORY has learned.

"I believe that I talked to the Speaker," Boehner has told a Cincinnatti radio station, "and he told me it had been taken care of."

"My position," he continued, "is, it's in his corner. It's his responsibility. The clerk of the House that runs the page program the page board, all report to the Speaker, and I believed it had been dealt with.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Boehner_Hastert_said_he_dealt_with_1003.html



Looks like the Rep. Bastert is being offered as a (really large) sacrificial lamb.

[autorank]

2. AMF Denny...KR

We hardly knew ya...

See "Election Nullivication Series" (all about Denny's bull shit)

http://electionfraudnews.com/edit.htm

[Blackhatjack]

4. LINK requested

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

[lonestarnot]

5. Do pigs float?

[warrens]

6. If they can him now, he will lose his seat too

Illinois is really going blue, even in some bright red districts. Denny has been popular, but not THAT popular. Without his pork advantage as speaker, he really has nothing to run on and could go down very rapidly if people feel he covered this up.

[JNelson6563]

8. Good point

These guys remind me of the Scottish nobles back in the day. Always ready to whack one of their own for the sake of a scapegoat and divvy up what spoils there may be afterward.

Julie

[Blackhatjack]

9. Too many diff stories, too many fingers pointed at Hastert to survive

Hastert has his own closet full of skeletons, but the real problem for Hastert is that he painted himself into a corner without Tom Delay being there to exact party discipline to back him up.

If Delay were still around, Reynolds would have protected Hastert, and Boehner would have never changed his story TWICE.

Delay knew ALL OF THE SECRETS of each Representative and was not hesitant to use them to blackmail lockstep compliance with anything he wanted. That is no longer the case with Delay missing.

Putting Hastert under oath is the real danger here. Answering questions that get into the money, opens Hastert to questions about his campaign contributions received in large bags of cash supposedly in denominations too small to require reporting. His links to Turkish influence, and other nightmares await.

Repubs are thinking that if Hastert is going down, he might as well give cover to other Repubs as long as possible --hopefully through midterm elections.

What would be truly astonishing would be Hastert saying you are not going to hang this on me, and then begin telling the secrets he knows about those Repubs who are trying to make him into a scapegoat. That would be interesting.