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October 10, 2006

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This makes me sick.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker Dennis Hastert said Tuesday he'll dismiss anyone on his staff found to have covered up concerns about ex-Rep. Mark Foley's approaches to former pages.

Hastert, R-Illinois, said he huddled with his staff last week and in that, in hindsight, the situation could have been better handled.

But he added, "If they did cover something up, then they should not continue to have their jobs."

I guess leadership is dead in the Republican party. Rather than say "I take responsibility for the mistakes of my staff" and apologize, Hastert decides to threaten them.

This guy's got to be a prince of a boss.

Oh well, if the poll trends continue, the American people are going to fire Hastert soon enough.

Posted by slublog at October 10, 2006 01:33 PM

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Um, he is taking responsibility for the mistakes of his staff. He's going to fire their asses if they were complicit in this. Just as any boss should, whether prince or demon.

I mean, come on. If an important project at work fails, and everyone tries to blame the project manager, is he going to "step down"? Of course not. He's going to give pink slips to anyone who caused the failure. Duh.

Posted by: Red Five at October 10, 2006 03:24 PM

My point is that through either incompetence or bad management, Hastert did cause the failure. Either he, or the people he hired failed in their jobs and the party has been hurt by their failure.

I'll be honest, though - I haven't ever been a Hastert fan. Especially since the disgrace that was his full-throated defense of the right of Congress to hide evidence of criminal activity in their offices.

Posted by: Slublog at October 10, 2006 03:47 PM

Well, I agree with both of you. I don't know yet whether Hastert should resign. Getting to the bottom of it and axing those responsible is necessary. He could have been more contrite, and publicly taken the heat all himself. It is kinda uncool to put the blame on anyone else, because you are at least admitting that shit got away from you.


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