Hassert: Didn't READ vs didn't KNOW. Republican double-speak never

[patricia92243]

ceases to amaze me. I almost admire them in a sicking sort of way. I was dying to see how they would spin this.

Hassart: "I didn't READ e-mails (NOT that he didn't KNOW about them) - pretty clever, I must say.

Also, notice ALL the MSM is saying something along the line of Democrats are wanting to jump on this for political reasons. According to them, the problem is Democrats wanting to USE the information - NOT that it happened - just that Democrats want to USE it.

And of course according to Hassart, the problem is WHO leaked the information - NOT that the information is terrible.

Repulsive, repulsive, repulsive Republican Party.

[Botany]

1. Denny = The L word

ttp://editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003189478&imw=Y

UPDATE: Foley Scandal Spreads, After GOP Leader Calls 'Wash Post' to Change Story

snip

The Washington Post carried this remarkable passage today: "House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) told The Washington Post last night that he had learned this spring of inappropriate 'contact' between Foley and a 16-year-old page. Boehner said he then told House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.)

"Boehner later contacted The Post and said he could not remember whether he talked to Hastert.

snip

On Friday, Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., chairman of the Page Board that oversees the congressional work-study program for high schoolers, said he did investigate but Foley falsely assured him he was only mentoring the boy. Pages are high school students who attend classes under congressional supervision and work as messengers.

Just as Shimkus' explanation was released, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California proposed to the House that its ethics committee investigate and make a preliminary report in 10 days. She demanded to know who knew of the messages, whether Foley had other contacts with pages and when the Republican leadership was notified of Foley's conduct.

Instead, majority Republicans engineered a vote to allow the ethics panel to decide whether there should even be an investigation.

[Janice325]

2. I hope Karma is a bitch and these bastards some day get what

they really deserve.
Fuckers!!
k&r

[karlrschneider]

3. I watched part of his comments, I believe he said "none of the

leadership had seen the emails before Friday". (Not that it's much different, you're right he
didn't say "know about" them.)

[patricia92243]

4. That' worse. I guess if he's going to spin, he might as well spin big

time :(

[usregimechange]

5. I wonder what he would say under oath?

[libhill]

6. So funny -

not what happened, but watching these shit sucking Repuke hypocrites scramble to cover their assess. Probably the same bunch who ragged on Clinton for getting a B.J. I hope the voters throw these bastards out on their sorry asses in November.

[libhill]

10. If a Democrat had done this -

it would be on the front page of every news paper 'till the end of the decade....

[bvar22]

7. Yes, Fat Bastard Denny was VERY careful...

Yes, Fat Bastard Denny was VERY careful to READ every word in a carefully prepared statement, and then run off immediately afterward to avoid ANY unscripted comments.

[Ganja Ninja]

8. The standard GOP excuse for all occasions.

"I was out of the loop."
"I wasn't informed."
or some variation there of.

Condi's using it today too.

[kestrel91316]

9. It's Hastert.

[libhill]

11. It's really ironic -

that for a party who claim to hate gays, there are so many gays in the Republican Party...?