Hastert’s ‘Palace Guard’

Hastert's 'Palace Guard'

AP’s John Solomon
is back and he's after Harry Reid again
(more here).
So in honor of his obtuseness, let us visit what a real scandal looks like.

It's fat, very, very fat and has a sexual predator at its center.
It goes like this.

Dennis Hastert's chief of staff was told about Congressman Foley, aka THE SEXUAL
PREDATOR. He was told by the sexual predator's chief of staff, Kirk Fordham,
who will testify to that very fact. Fordham also told the House Clerk at that
time, Jeff Trandahl, that Foley (aka the sexual predator) needed to be “pulled
back a little”.

Let me introduce you to Hastert's
“palace guard”.

Van Der Meid, a former chief Republican counsel for the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, helped engineer the failed effort to change GOP ethics rules to allow an indicted lawmaker to remain in the leadership. The power play was designed to keep then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) at his post, but it backfired spectacularly, embarrassing many Republicans and leaving a blemish on Hastert's record.

Interesting.

So Hastert's counsel tried to keep the Mariana's Island sex-slave-forced-abortion king, Tom
Delay, in power.

Good to know.

Of course, there's also Scott Palmer, who says, “What Kirk Fordham
said did not happen.” Scotty doesn't know a thing. Check.

Hastert's deputy chief of staff Mike Stokke resuscitates Republican campaigns
in trouble. You know, puts together hit campaigns, dirty tricks, those sorts of things. So why is he handling THE SEXUAL PREDATOR scandal?

A senior GOP aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said it made little sense to have a political hand such as Stokke handle the Foley matter, a delicate issue involving personnel questions and possible legal violations. “Did they make an affirmative decision to have the political guy work on this?” the GOP staffer asked. “It clearly was a bad damn idea.” (source)

It's an election year. Republicans are in trouble. Republicans see a SEXUAL PREDATOR in their midst as not something to excise and remove, especially if he gives big bucks to help other Republicans get elected. But someone to cover for and make sure no one finds out the chain of custody on the x-rated, smutty, sexually perverted IMs and emails.

Got it.

Marshall has the
art.

Tomorrow, Kirk Fordahm is up front and center testifying in front of the ethics
committee. He will assert that he told Palmer, Hastert's chief of staff, about
Foley's behavior way back in 2003.

Who believes that the chief of staff for the Speaker, hearing about a SEXUAL PREDATOR in the House, is not going to let his boss know? Oh right, Scotty doesn't know anything. I keep forgetting that factoid.

Oh, and nobody told the lone Democrat on the page board that anything was going on. Get it?

No one likes to give the boss bad news, but when it's a congressman grooming
teenagers to eventually be conquests something tells me that somebody's bells
should have gone off and they should have been blinking red alert.

But not Republicans, because what they saw was a political fiasco about to blow up in their family vaules faces.

Hide the perv.