Hastert
By If there is one thing I’ve gotten sick of in the last four years, it’s having to pick my jaw up off the floor every so often, after it fall there in response to my lack of ability to prepare myself for the level of incompetence and/or mendacity exhibited by the current GOP leadership and their apologists. Each time, I say to myself, I won’t be surprised next time. But you simply can’t prepare yourself for this sort of thing.
It’s revealing that the typical reader, at this point, probably isn’t sure which bit of mendacious nonsense I’m referring to, and there are a certainly a number of possibilities. It just so happens that in this particular case I’m referring to Dennis Hastert’s recent comments re: George Soros. They needn’t be digitally reproduced again, but see them here at the Political Animal, of there at Crooked Timber and over yonder at TPM. It’s probably discussed elsewhere, but for my own mental health I need to stop reading political blogs for a little while and clear my mind.
One wonders what role big D will play if Bush were to lose in November. His main task recently has been saying, writing and doing stupid in the service of the Bush administration. Unlike DeLay, Hastert wasn’t always ideologically strongly linked to Bush, but he’s now probably more linked to Bush than Delay is. I’m curious to see what his role in the party will be if the election doesn’t come off as planned. Let’s all hope and pray my curiousity is satisfied.