Hastert: Scandal Is Democrats 'October Surprise'

[sabra]

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/10/5/222747.shtml?s=sr

Hastert: Scandal Is 'October Surprise'

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In an interview with NewsMax.com late Thursday, Hastert said anyone who knew of the sordid instant messages Foley was sending to congressional pages should have notified authorities immediately.

"If somebody knew of these messages and didn't come forward, they're putting kids in jeopardy -- for a year, for a month or for a day," the Illinois Republican said. Press reports indicate that several of Mark Foley's instant messages were three years old. Other media outlets have confirmed that one or more third parties were shopping a story about Foley's e-mail almost a year ago.

As evidence that Democrats were involved in the timing, Hastert said the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had Foley's explicit electronic messages before Hastert did.

"The DCCC was ready to go," Hastert said. "We were told by sources that they had that information on a Thursday night before we did, or Wednesday. They were up ahead of us for a day before we ever knew it was going to happen (on Friday)."

Hastert said the messages came out "on the last day after Foley can't get his name off the ballot, and we're leaving for a national campaign, and then this thing falls. It's kind of an October surprise, I guess you'd call it."

:rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. OMFG! These assholes have no shame, no sense of irony,

no sense of decency!

The fucking asshole sits on the truth for more than a year, and then blames the Democrats for not telling in time.

:eyes:

Fuck you, Hastert.

[Erika]

7. Their smarts are a little lacking also n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

2. "If somebody knew and didn't come forward"---- Sure thing, O.J.

Let us know when you find the real killer.

[Bucky]

5. !! :o)

very nice. a real rofler

[OzarkDem]

3. Ha! Ha!

Our Dem leadership in Congress just isn't that aggressive, but I wish they were.

[Greatwildbeast]

4. Har!

Such total B/S. If there had been one lick of truth to the matter a hundred thousand Demos would have taken credit 4 it. including yours truly.

That is my thang!

[Erika]

6. Irony to the nth degree. The GOP is in charge

but blame the democrats for not controlling GOP pervert Congressmen. Pathetic.

[Mojambo]

8. Even if Democrats did "play" this thing

And there's not a shred of evidence that they did.

Americans pretty much expect dirty tricks in politics. They accept it, and it works VERY well because of it.

See 2000, 2002, and 2004.

[BornagainDUer]

9. He sounds more like Delay did just before he cut and ran.

What a joke Hastert is.

[Zavulon]

10. Our pedophile acted like a sleaze with teenage boys, got caught, and

those pesky Dems have the audacity to be offended and want investigations instead of letting it slide! You know, if this were immediately after an election instead of immediately before one, Pelosi and Reid and Kennedy and all of the other haters of family, the military and America wouldn't have batted an eye over a 52 year-old man sending revolting messages to teenage boys and then trying to garner sympathy with transparent moves like checking into rehab or claiming to be a molestation victim.

Now you can see why we kept this quite for over a year! We just knew those lefty bastards would make an issue over this!

:rofl:

[Rockstone]

11. Naah - we forgot ours

must have slipped our minds... you know how that is denny...

[Botany]

12. newsmax?

Come on Denny you can't do better then that?

[beyurslf]

13. So we find less than 24 hours before the story breaks and he had 3 years

notice, but we're the ones to blame?

[beyurslf]

14. So we find less than 24 hours before the story breaks and he had 3 years

notice, but we're the ones to blame?

[zbdent]

15. I would argue that any evidence of "Dems" being in on this

was tainted by the Repuke hackers who got into the Dem system a few years back ...

[Toots]

16. Should report to authorities

I seem to recall reading that it was reported to the highest official at the time at least a year ago and then again a few months ago but that "Authority" did nothing about it. Who was that "Authority" I wonder?