Remember how morally outraged all those GOPers were back then. Hastert would be the eventual replacement for Newt Gingrich.
At the nadir of all those who 'Were with sin throwing big stones' rather than doing as Christ asked
http://biblehub.com/john/8-7.htm
the feminist writer Erica Jong made the point that what must really have grated on Clinton was all those phonies in the Republican party who all ran around on their wives and did all kinds of improper things, were waxing so indignant about Lewinsky.
Larry Flynt ended up showing this in spades as all the accusers of Clinton had all kinds of skeletons in their closets. Newt had left his first wife and served her divorce papers while she was on her death bed with cancer then left his second wife in a similarly callous way.
Bob Livingston took over for Newt but he lasted about a day in the half as Speaker in the House before all his many affairs and out of wedlock children were revealed.
Hastert was the 2nd Newt replacement and he served until 2007 as Spekaer of the House-he was Ws ally during the wonderful Bush years.
Now we are learning that he too lived in a very big and glassy house:
"Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert paid a man to conceal a sexual relationship they had while the man was a student at the high school where Hastert taught, a federal law enforcement official told NBC News on Friday."
At the nadir of all those who 'Were with sin throwing big stones' rather than doing as Christ asked
http://biblehub.com/john/8-7.htm
the feminist writer Erica Jong made the point that what must really have grated on Clinton was all those phonies in the Republican party who all ran around on their wives and did all kinds of improper things, were waxing so indignant about Lewinsky.
Larry Flynt ended up showing this in spades as all the accusers of Clinton had all kinds of skeletons in their closets. Newt had left his first wife and served her divorce papers while she was on her death bed with cancer then left his second wife in a similarly callous way.
Bob Livingston took over for Newt but he lasted about a day in the half as Speaker in the House before all his many affairs and out of wedlock children were revealed.
Hastert was the 2nd Newt replacement and he served until 2007 as Spekaer of the House-he was Ws ally during the wonderful Bush years.
Now we are learning that he too lived in a very big and glassy house:
"Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert paid a man to conceal a sexual relationship they had while the man was a student at the high school where Hastert taught, a federal law enforcement official told NBC News on Friday."
"The official spoke on condition of anonymity. Tribune reported earlier in the day that two unnamed federal officials said that Hastert paid a man from his past to conceal sexual misconduct."
"Hastert was indicted Thursday on charges that he structured bank withdrawals to avoid federal reporting requirements and later lied about it to the FBI."
"The indictment said that Hastert was paying an unidentified person from his past to conceal Hastert's "prior misconduct." The indictment did not specify the alleged misconduct or name the person"
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dennis-hastert-indictment-fed-say-cover-was-related-sexual-misconduct-n366776
Wow those were a fine bunch of people who impeached Clinton. That's GOP family values for you-'Do what I preach not what I do.
Yes, in a sense this might seem to be incidental as Hastert has been gone for years. But to me its symptomatic of something that runs through the entire modern conservative Republican movement: gross hypocrisy.
It's amazing how those who 'are the most with sin' are always the ones who want to 'cast the first stone.'
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