In Sumner's Special Pleading for Dennis Hastert, the Ironies Keep Piling Up

     Of course, Sumner has no sense of irony. How else could he see Hastert as some kind of innocent victim of American Puritanism-rather than clear case of those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones?

     Yet, he whines and whines about Hastert being mistreated as if Hastert wasn't the Speaker of the House when it impeached Clinton.

      http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/05/sumners-pefectly-obtuse-sympathy-for.html

      You know who else thinks that Dennis Hastert is an innocent victim? Dennis Hastert.

      "Embattled former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) reportedly told friends that he was a "victim" in the scandal involving his alleged agreement to pay $3.5 million in hush money to an individual he had reportedly sexually abused, Chicago TV station WBBM reported."

     "Hastert was indicted last week on bank-related charges stemming from the alleged agreement to pay millions of dollars to "Individual A" to compensate for "prior misconduct" against that person that had occurred years earlier. Later news reports based on anonymous federal law enforcement sources said that "Individual A" was a male student whom Hastert had allegedly sexually abused when he was a high school teacher and wrestling coach in Yorkville, Illinois."

     http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/dennis-hastert-im-a-victim-too

     Indeed, what Hastert has been accused of is far worse than what Clinton was accused of. At least Ms. Lewinsky was of age-22 vs. 15 and it was consensual. Sumner feels so aggrieved that he seems to want to overturn laws against perjury, sexual assault, and bank fraud to save Hastert from the same kind of charges and worse that he wanted to impeach a sitting President for in the 90s. 

  Again, how you look at Hastert and don't say 'live by the sword die by the sword' or as some Twitter folks have said 'Karma isn't a bitch, she's merely justice' is beyond me. 

    Meanwhile. after leading the GOP Puritans with Pitchfork brigade against Clinton in the 90s, he had a totally different attitude when it was someone from his own party in 2006:

    The dynamics at play in Hastert’s case are similar to those at work in the case of ex-Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL), who resigned from Congress in 2006 in a scandal over sexually explicit messages he sent high school-age, male interns. Hastert’s handling of the Foley affair itself was criticized as a cover-up, and it became a contributing factor to the GOP’s heavy midterm losses that fall.

Hastert originally maintained that he didn’t know about the explicit emails between Foley and members of the congressional page program until they were published in the news media, but a congressional ethics investigation later found the former House speaker knew much more than he let on."

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/dennis-hastert-charges-mark-foley

    This is who Scott Sumner thinks is worthy of a full-throated defense? A hypocritical Puritan phony who ought to remember 'Judge not lest you be judged'-as well as a someone who has engaged in sexual abuse of a minor, perjury, and bank fraud. 

    "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"

   https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A1-3&version=KJV

   That'd be a good question for both Hastert and Sumner.