Buh-Bye Denny! ---pix--->>>

[Stephanie]

I believe the door just hit your ASS.



http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/061208/480/f52f7777aeaf4dda8e888cd20122468f


http:// news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/061207/ids_photos_ts/r3452424951.jpg


http:// news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/061207/ids_photos_ts/r3452424951.jpg



Speaker of the House, Rep. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., right, accepts the Speaker's gavel from
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. on Capitol Hill in Washington as the 109th
Congress convenes in this Jan. 4, 2005, file photo. In January 2007 Hastert will be handling
the gavel to Pelosi. Most speakers don't stick around on Capitol Hill once they leave the
most powerful job in Congress, one that puts its occupant second in the line of succession
to the presidency. Hastert, however, will return, becoming just another House member.
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) Email Photo Print Photo

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/061207/480/wx10412070408

[volstork]

1. If the door hit HIS ass,

it must be in splinters now!

[Eric J in MN]

2. Dennis Hastert will still be around....

...and if we don't volunteer-and-donate for Democratic Congresspersons and Democratic challengers running for Congress in 2008, then he could be in the majority, again.

The Republicans will try to imitate our Fifty State/435 district strategy in 2008.

[Stephanie]

3. i guess your glass is half-empty

let me celebrate for a few hours, sourpuss

[MissWaverly]

16. Stephanie, agree with you

I am enjoying this, Denny, is his usual sweet self, he looks like he is contemplating
hitting Nancy Pelosi with the gavel, that is what I like so much about this current
crop of Repukes: their friendly and sunny natures.

[Octafish]

4. Sweaty Denny may be heading to the pen.

Now that Sibel Edmonds has a Congress that's willing to listen her testify under oath, the greasy Congressman from Illinois will have a lot to answer for.

Great photos, Stephanie. Infinite thanks.

[Eric J in MN]

7. What does Dennis Hastert have to do with Sibel Edmonds? NT

NT

[hwmnbn]

8. Edmonds contends that Hastert.....

received large sums of money from Turkish interests to sway/forestall legislation. I'm not sure about the intricate details but bribery is the keyword.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/10/1346254


edit to add link

[Octafish]

10. Gets worse. Hastert protects Rev. Moon.

And from there the House of Bush:

The Republicans, Moonies and the Washington Times

Posted by Damm yankee on October 31, 2004 at 01:54:06

If House Speaker Dennis Hastert were really concerned about drug profits being laundered into the U.S. political process, he would not be sliming billionaire financier George Soros with that suspicion. Hastert would be looking at a principal conservative funder: South Korean theocrat Sun Myung Moon.

SNIP...

Moon himself has boasted that he spent $1 billion on the right-wing Washington Times in its first decade alone. The newspaper, which started in 1982, continues to lose Moon an estimated $50 million a year but remains a valuable propaganda organ for the Republican Party.

How Moon has managed to cover the vast losses of his media empire and pay for lavish conservative conferences has been one of the most enduring mysteries of Washington, but curiously one of the least investigated – at least since the Reagan-Bush era.

Limited investigations of Moon’s organization have revealed large sums of money flowing into the United States mostly from untraceable accounts in Japan, where Moon had close ties to yakuza gangster Ryoichi Sasakawa. Former Moon associates also have revealed major money flows from shadowy sources in South America, where Moon built relationships with right-wing elements associated with the cocaine trade, including the so-called Cocaine Coup government of Bolivia in the early 1980s.

SNIP...

A Bush-Style Warning

Hastert and other Republicans seem to have targeted Soros because he has helped finance liberal activist groups that have engaged in voter registration drives and run TV ads criticizing George W. Bush. Hastert and other Bush loyalists could be laying down a marker that people who finance anti-Bush politics can expect to have their reputations destroyed and possibly become subjects of federal investigations.

Yet for Moon, despite his criminal record and eyewitness accounts of his money-laundering activities, opposite rules apply. Republicans – who now control the Executive Branch, the Congress and the federal judiciary – protect Moon and his money from any serious examination. (I detail Moon’s history of money laundering and organized-crime associations in my forthcoming book, Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq.)

CONTINUED...

http://www.geoffmetcalf.com/wwwboard/messages/4561.html

We may have, for the first time since December of 2000, hwmnbn, hope for Justice.

[hwmnbn]

11. I agree, Octafish.....

I've sensed it in the air ever since the election. There is soooo much shit that needs to be uncovered "officially" and dealt with legally.

But I have more hope now than anytime in the past 6 years. We'll just have to keep up the pressure on our newly elected dems.

[bleever]

5. Thanks for the perp walk photos.

These frogs can march themselves, thank you very much!

[snowbear]

6. Buh Bye ya big chicken!

[Vexatious Ape]

12. Thanks for the great wallpaper.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

9. Out with the old (and deranged) in with the new. n/t

[Catfight]

13. Put his fat ass on the biggest loser, he's over indulgent in every way. nt

[stevedeshazer]

14. That last one is worth a million bucks

Madame Speaker!

[coffeenap]

15. Yes it is--I called my 12 year old daughter in to see it--

first woman, highest office, liberal dem!!! We will save this one for the scrapbook!

[Olney Blue]

17. Cheney, Frist, and Hastert- representing a low point in U.S. history.