Son of Foley’s replacement has to ‘hold his nose‘ to vote for pops.
Yet another SurveyUSA poll on Hastert.
Resign from Congress: 45%
Resign Leadership only: 25%
Remain Speaker: 26%
Kevin Drum has more on the question of whether this was actually a failed nuke test.
With all the calamities befalling the GOP, it’s hard to keep all the scandals straight. Republicans might even be nostalgic for the time when Jack Abramoff seemed like their worst problem.
But despite the fact that it’s been pushed off the front page, the Abramoff scandal is still going strong. Over at TPMmuckraker, we spoke with Peter Stone, the author of Heist, a new book on Abramoff, about how Abramoff operated and where the investigation’s going next.
Loyal to the last.
You remember Peter Roskam. He’s the Social Security bamboozler running for Congress in Illinois’ 6th district, who accused his opponent, Iraq war double amputee Tammy Duckworth of wanting to ‘cut and run’.
On Thursday he’s holding a fundraiser headlined by Denny Hastert and President Bush.
Don’t think Bush failed on North Korea? Ask Donald Gregg, former Ambassador to South Korea and Bush’s dad’s National Security Advisor while he was Vice President. Gregg thinks he did.
No one seems willing to come out and say it yet. But it’s really starting to look like that North Korean nuclear test didn’t work. An unnamed intel official tells the Times that “We have assessed that the explosion in North Korea was a sub-kiloton explosion.” I don’t want to wade very far in at all on the technical details of evaluating this blast. I can’t imagine a topic more distant from any expertise I have. But that would be really, really small for a nuclear blast.
Is it possible that the North Korean nuclear test was as big a failure as President Bush’s nuclear policy?
Late Update: From what I can tell, the foreign press is entertaining the thought that this might have been a failed test more than the US press. The French Defense Minister has already said the meager yield suggests the test may have failed. I’d like to follow this closely. So if you see press reports that shed more light on this question, please let me know.
TPM Reader RT takes some grim solace from the possibility that the North Korean bang may have been a bust …
So the Bush approach to NK is all blustery talk and very little delivery department. The NK approach to weapons research is very little bang for all the bluff.
Do these two deserve each other or what?
In Karl’s grand quest to dumb down expectations, we are left with two miserable failures hell bent on World War III. The only thing saving the planet is the only thing they succeed at – being incompetent.
Maybe Mark Foley should mediate a measuring of State Wangs to settle which fool is the victor.
Very shrill on that last point.
Speaker Hastert and his staff still claim that the first they heard of Mark Foley’s page problem was in late 2005. Yet since last Friday a series of published reports have come out that have left that story in tatters. A bunch came out over the weekend. And they can be hard to keep track of. So we’ve put together a brief chronological narrative of what we now know and the order of each revelation.
Hastert now figures he can brazen this one out because there are so many stories floating around that people won’t line them up in order and realize what they show.
Read it over and it’s hard to come to any conclusion but that that Hastert and especially his Chief of Staff Scott Palmer have been caught in a lie.
If you’re following this story, definitely read this post. Then ask yourself how it is Scott Palmer still has a job.