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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Boehner, "it's his responsibility."

House Majority Leader Boehner seems to have decided that if somebody's going down, it's not going to be him.
Speaker Dennis Hastert brushed aside any suggestion of resignation on Tuesday as House Republican leaders struggled to contain the fallout from an election-year scandal involving sexually explicit messages from a disgraced lawmaker to underage male pages.

Hastert issued a written statement as Majority Leader John Boehner said the speaker had assured him months ago the matter had been taken care of. "It's in his corner, it's his responsibility," Boehner, R-Ohio, said in an interview on radio station WLW in Cincinnati.


TPM: "Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) this morning switched his position on the leader's culpability, telling a radio interviewer, "I believe I talked to the Speaker and he told me it had been taken care of."

Hastert's toast.

posted by mikevotes at 11:09 AM

4 Comments:

  • Typical Repub. m.o.: buck passing and responsibility dodging.

    By Blogger -epm, at 11:43 AM  

  • True, but I think any politician would try to do the same.

    The notable thing to me is that this is Hastert's "second in command." If he's allowed to point the finger at the fat man, every other Republican can too.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 1:28 PM  

  • True, but I think any politician would try to do the same.

    I don't know. This seems like a whole new level of buck passing and dodging. I mean the whole Republican machine, from Bush and Cheney on down.

    By Blogger -epm, at 2:52 PM  

  • True, this one is extreme because of what's being covered up, the fact that it's the Speaker of the house.

    And, I over generalized, not all politicians are scum. I think you could find both Repubs and Dems who would attempt to cover up, as well as more who would never get caught in such a situation because they would've done the right thing in the first place.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 4:21 PM  

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