Showing posts with label Hastert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hastert. Show all posts

Sunday, April 10, 2022

From Hastert to Gaetz: Let's talk about Republicans and sex crimes

…The Republicans have apparently decided that the committee in charge of sex crimes legislation should include one guy currently being investigated for actual sex crimes—and another who allegedly looked the other way on them. It's not exactly the behavior of a party that cares deeply about sexual abuse…

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Republicans won’t allow a Trump immigration deal -- Salon

President Donald Trump and leaders of both major parties have been negotiating over a possible deal on immigration, which would allow some sort of legal status for people currently protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. ....
https://www.salon.com/2018/01/29/republicans-wont-allow-a-trump-immigration-deal/

Sunday, April 10, 2016

The Irony and the Awfulness

As you can see in this story here, we are now getting the details of what we've suspected or known in outline since the news first broke last year: that Denny Hastert, the longest serving Republican Speaker of the House in history, second in the line to the presidency for eight years, was a serial pedophile who preyed on adolescent boys in his charge when he was a high school wrestling coach before entering electoral politics. What is worth remembering is that Hastert's improbable rise to the pinnacle of political power in Washington was a direct consequence of Republican party efforts to exploit and eventually criminalize Bill Clinton's extramarital sex life in order to overturn the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections. The chain of events is clear and straightforward.....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-irony-and-the-awfulness









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