Hastert and Harris Jump on the Conspiracy Bandwagon
Hastert has officially lost it. By it, I am of course referring to any semblence of credibility. Believe it or not, the speaker of the house has actually stooped to implying that the timing of the Foley story is part of some liberal plot to influence the election. Apparently Foley isn't the only GOP Congressman who is painfully delusional. On the Rush Limbaugh show today Hastert said the following:
Hat tip: Think Progress.
Just to clear up the fact that this story was not given to the media just prior to the election intentionally, take note of this. As The New York Times points out, Brian Ross, the reporter who broke the story, indicated that his sources were republicans.
From Firedoglake:
There were two pieces of paper out there, one that we knew about and we acted on; one that happened in 2003 we didn’t know about, but somebody had it, and, you know, they’re trying — and they drop it the last day of the session, you know, before we adjourn on an election year. Now, we took care of Mr. Foley. We found out about it, asked him to resign. He did resign. He’s gone. We asked for an investigation. We’ve done that. We’re trying to build better protections for these page programs.Listen to the audio.
But, you know, this is a political issue in itself, too, and what we’ve tried to do as the Republican Party is make a better economy, protect this country against terrorism — and we’ve worked at it ever since 9/11, worked with the president on it — and there are some people that try to tear us down. We are the insulation to protect this country, and if they get to me it looks like they could affect our election as well.
Hat tip: Think Progress.
Just to clear up the fact that this story was not given to the media just prior to the election intentionally, take note of this. As The New York Times points out, Brian Ross, the reporter who broke the story, indicated that his sources were republicans.
Mr. Ross dismissed suggestions by some Republicans that the news was disseminated as part of a smear campaign against Mr. Foley.Update: Katherine Harris is now on board with the conspiracy theory.
“I hate to give up sources, but to the extent that I know the political parties of any of the people who helped us, it would be the same party,” Mr. Ross said, referring to Republicans.
From Firedoglake:
Oh, god, it's Katherine Harris. She's baaaaaack. And here's what she has to say about Foleygate: "The media are being quite disingenous to make it a partisan issue. If anything, the Republicans didn't know about these issues and we're going to be very anxious to find out who in the media and on the other side of the aisle knew this and kept it from the public interest as our children were at stake…"Wow, just wow. The nerve of this woman never ceases to amaze me. Trex on FDL sums it up nicely:
The fact is that this is a Republican scandal, made by Republicans, perpetrated on Republican Youth, covered up and hidden by, yes, Republicans. They have no one to blame on this but themselves.Time to Resign, Denny.
