You can't make this stuff up

[ex-khobar Andy]

So ex-Speaker Hastert is going down (to coin a phrase) for disobeying banking regulations. In an attempt to spare him a spell in the nick, 40 of his closest friends wrote letters to the court. Among them was one Tom DeLay. He wrote, inter alia:

“We held each other accountable and we studied God's word and applied it to where we were at that moment. Nothing could have been more intimate between us. So I know his heart and have seen it up close and personal.

Wasn't he in the House for a while? I wonder what he has been doing since then.

[Scooter]

Yeah, if I were trying to convince a court my moral rectitude, I don't think I'd be getting a testimonial from Tom DeLay.

And just as an indication of how oblivious the guy is to the damage he wrought, he had the fucking nerve to ask former Illinois House Republican leader Tom Cross to write a letter for him. Cross's brother Scott was one of the boys Hastert raped. How is anyone supposed to believe that he feels any real remorse for what he did, when he thinks that he can call on family members of his victims for favours?

He isn't sorry for what he did, he is only sorry that he got caught.

[Long Run]

The defense has said it received 60 letters in all and had hoped to keep them sealed from public view, but U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin, who will sentence Hastert on Wednesday, warned he wouldn't consider any letters not made public.

Nearly 20 writers did not want their letters made public or had requested their letters be "withdrawn" from consideration, Hastert's lawyers wrote in a court filing Friday.

The 41 letters made public were mostly written in late February and early March — before prosecutors detailed sex abuse allegations against Hastert from decades ago.

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In a bombshell sentencing memorandum filed earlier this month, prosecutors alleged Hastert had sexually abused at least four wrestlers as well as a former team equipment manager when he was coach at Yorkville. The abuse allegedly occurred in hotel rooms during team trips and in almost-empty locker rooms, often after Hastert coaxed the teens into a compromising position by offering to massage them, prosecutors said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... story.html

[Econoline]

Some may have forgotten: for nearly 8 years this pervert was second in line for succession to the Presidency, just behind Al Gore from 1998-2001 and then just behind Dick Cheney until he left office at the end of 2006.

[Scooter]

Thinking back to the Mark Foley affair, you have to wonder if Hastert sat on the info he received about Foley out of fear that the skeletons in his own closet (pardon the pun) might come to light. If so, it makes his failure to take action all the more repulsive.

[Scooter]

And where is Dave to rush to the defense of a conservative child rapist when you need him?