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Dennis Hastert indictment hints at ugly possibilities
Dennis Hastert, former Republican speaker of the House When news broke that former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert had been indicted for structuring transactions to avoid IRS detection and lying...
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Flashback to 2006: Dennis Hastert helped cover up a teen sex abuse scandal
Dennis Hastert Dennis Hastert looked like the clean member of Republican House leadership in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He didn't have affairs, that we knew of, like Newt Gingrich or Bob...
View ArticleDennis Hastert -- what really happened (?) and overcriminalization
As a resident of Oregon, I lived through much of the weird career of Neil Goldschmidt, mayor, cabinet secretary, governor, and child molester. Short version: For most of his political career...
View ArticleHastert paid to cover up sexual misconduct: Sources
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Dennis Hastert apparently paid hush money to someone to conceal some type of sexual misconduct on Hastert's part.
View ArticleNYT: Payments by Hastert Linked to Report of Sexual Abuse
Grey LadyJ. Dennis Hastert, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, was paying a man to not say publicly that Mr. Hastert had sexually abused him decades ago, according to two people...
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Barney Frank calls out Dennis Hastert & GOP hypocrisy with a perfect statement
Barney Frank called out Dennis Hastert and the GOP for their hypocrisy on moral values and gay issues in a manner only he could. He was referring to the indictment of former Republican Speaker of the...
View ArticleSaturday Night Losers Club, Vol. CDLXXIX: Indicted Loser of The Week Poll...
Very short, as 3CM doesn’t have time to write at length about anything else of remote interest to him. But since this seems to be the week for high-profile indictments, to quote Emperor Joseph II from...
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Cartoon - 19 Kids And Counting
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View ArticleAnonymous source: Hastert prosecutors know of multiple victims
TPMAn anonymous source familiar with the case of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) said federal prosecutors knew of "prior misdeeds" Hastert committed against potentially several alleged...
View ArticleHow Dennis Hastert parlayed his Position into Millions
Who knew he'd need that Inside-the-Beltway boost in Salary in order to pay out hush money in the millions over the years ...How ‘Public Servant’ Hastert Got His Richesby Ana Marie Cox,...
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Reports: There's a second alleged Dennis Hastert abuse victim
Dennis Hastert The scandal surrounding former House Speaker Dennis Hastert's indictment for attempting to conceal bank withdrawals to pay off an extortionist has reached the stage where, in the absence...
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Judge in Dennis Hastert case contributed to Hastert for Congress
Dennis Hastert Things that make you go "hmm": a federal judge presiding over a criminal case against a former politician to whom he donated a bunch of money.U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Durkin gave...
View ArticleDennis Hastert as the Tip of the Iceberg
How much do you know about pedophiles? Maybe not a lot, because it's a repulsive subject, arguably the worst of all crimes. Nobody likes to think about it.But there's one sick, sordid fact that comes...
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Hastert Indicted, Fuller Resigns - 'BradCast' Special Coverage 6/1/2015
Or, what BRAD BLOG readers knew long ago...Those shocked about the indictment of former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) wouldn't be so surprised had they been long time readers of The BRAD...
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Mitch McConnell's 'Freedom' Failure; Judge Mark Fuller's 'Shame': 'BradCast'...
Guest: Heidi Hess of CredoAction...The USA Freedom Act passes as a long overdue replacement to the Patriot Act. Mitch McConnell weeps and Rand Paul raises money. That's good. But is it a good bill and...
View ArticleRuth Marcus is the Latest "Liberal" Columnist to Defend Dennis Hastert
Looking at my archives, I realize that I’ve written about Ruth Marcus more often than I thought. It has never been flattering.Typically, I say things like “If Ruth Marcus suddenly sounds like Jane...
View ArticleThe Hastert Rule . . . Washington Sex Scandals . . . and Hard Ball Politics
Washington is a baseball town. So let's talk baseball. Denny Hastert, the former Republican Speaker, has made himself the “curve-ball” in the Republican play book. He has served the Dems up a...
View ArticleHastert Victims Family Comes Forward
Good Morning America via Yahoo has the story told by an alleged victims sister. It is a tragic story that ends in the death of the victim and a sick Hastert who took it upon himself to show up at the...
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Woman says her brother was a victim of ex-Speaker Dennis Hastert
From ABC News:In Steve Reinboldt’s 1970 high school yearbook, wrestling coach Dennis Hastert wrote that Steve was his “great, right hand man” as the student equipment manager of the Yorkville,...
View ArticleHow does Hastert have $3.5mil to dole out in hush money?
I've seen this mentioned briefly in comments a while back, don't remember by whom, but the point seems to have disappeared in the current Hastert discussions: how did a small-town high-school wrestling...
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Dennis Hastert pleads not guilty to charges of structuring, lying to FBI
Hastert arrives for his appearance in a Chicago federal court Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert makes his appearance in court.After days of silence, J. Dennis Hastert, a former speaker of the House...
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'Guardian v. Warrior Cops' in McKinney, TX and Beyond: 'BradCast' 6/9/2015
Guest: Police officer turned U. of SC asst. professor Seth Stoughton...On today's BradCast, I was joined by Seth Stoughton, former cop and now asst. professor at the University of South Carolina School...
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Huckabee's Co-Author was Accused Twice of Child Molestation in Court Cases
(illustration by DonkeyHotey)From BuzzFeed:John Perry, a prolific author who co-wrote two books with former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and co-wrote one with Alabama...
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Cartoon - I Dream Of Denny
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Dennis Hastert's files show an ongoing interest in pedophilia and homosexuality
Dennis Hastert Since Dennis Hastert was indicted on charges related to his efforts to cover up payments to a former student for past sexual misconduct, there's been an ongoing reassessment of the...
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'A More Perfect Union': 'BradCast' 6/26/2015
Guest: Mike Rogers of Raw Story...Today's landmark SCOTUS ruling on marriage equality was an extraordinary end to an extraordinary week. So, that what I was more than happy to cover on today's...
View Article1998: Year of Three Speakers (and What the US Press Won't Tell You About It)
Ah, 1998.The year the Republicans finally thought their six years of fishing expeditions and witchhunts (aka CoupGate or The Hunting of the President) would bear fruit. Newt was predicting 60-seat...
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If the party that loses can impose its will, why bother having elections?
One of these guys won, and the other lost. That's democracy. What's the point of elections? Seriously, think about it for a minute. In the most practical terms, elections are how we, the people select...
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Dennis Hastert reaches a plea deal, likely saving him from a truly ugly...
Dennis Hastert—the guy the GOP coalesced around the last time the Republicans couldn't find a Speaker of the House—has reportedly reached a plea deal with the government over his attempt to evade...
View ArticlePoetic Invective: From Benghazi to Hastert
"Poetic Invective: From Benghazi to Hastert"It’s hard to know whether to weep or to laugh When we read in the news that the Benghazi staff Spent working hours, the public be damned, Ordering Tiffany...
View ArticleBefore the Memory Hole: GOP Speaker Hastert Oversaw Page Scandal
So former Republican GOP Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert does not want to be publicly shamed, eh?The GOP just trying to sweep yet another Republican grooming minors for sex under Trump's rug, eh?Oh...
View ArticleDennis Hastert's lawyers: Having the public find out about his crimes is...
Spare me, judge. I may have murdered my parents but you wouldn't send an orphan to jail, would you?Lawyers for former House Speaker Dennis Hastert asked a federal court on Wednesday to sentence him to...
View ArticleDaily Kos Radio's KITM podcast (AUDIO): Kagro in the Morning, Tuesday, April...
xEmbedded Content On iTunes | On Stitcher | Support the show: Patreon; PayPal; PayPal SubscriptionDavid Waldman reviews his Ten Year Plan for KITM. Making a million dollars was definitely either the...
View ArticleDaily Kos Radio's KITM podcast (AUDIO): Kagro in the Morning, Wednesday,...
xEmbedded ContentOn iTunes | On Stitcher | Support the show: Patreon; PayPal; PayPal SubscriptionDavid Waldman brings us the political, slightly removed from political, skirting the realm of the...
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Watch Bernie fight for Universal Health Care in 1993. His opponent was Dennis...
Hillary is still making the false accusation (some would say “smear”) that Bernie was nowhere to be found when she was trying to pass “Hillarycare” in 1993. This weekend she repeated it again, at a...
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Overnight News Digest: April 26, 2016- The Big Shoes to Fill Edition
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Doctor RJ, Magnifico,...
View ArticleCalling him a 'serial child molester,' federal judge orders prison for former...
Dennis Hastert, the former Speaker of the House who was once third in line for the presidency and was instrumental in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, has been sentenced by a federal judge...
View ArticleNortheastern Primary Landslides for Trump and Clinton and What's Next:...
Plus: 'Serial child molester' Hastert sentenced; Encouraging green news; And listener calls...On today's BradCast, following the Northeastern Primaries on Tuesday in PA, CT, MD, DE and RI, the 2016...
View ArticleMO-Sen: After Facing Scrutiny, Blunt (R) Gives His Hastert Donations To Group...
Took him long enough:Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., has given $11,000 from his campaign account to a Missouri organization that combats child abuse, the same amount of money that the political action committee...
View ArticleSuggestion to Markos & others re Bernie Sanders: Chill.
Good kos, bad kos?Good kosThe March 15 transition [when Daily Kos moderators will consider the Democratic primaries to be effectively over and will no longer tolerate antagonism toward Hillary Clinton...
View ArticleDennis Hastert reports to prison today because he is a serial child molester
Former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert began his prison sentence today, a prison sentence he is serving for being found guilty of breaking banking laws in his attempts to funnel “hush...
View ArticlePoetic Invective: Pots, Kettles, Trump, and Foley
When the Pot calls the Kettle blackThe Pot better look behind his back.Such was the case the other day.Trump thought that he'd found a wayTo smear his foe when Mr. MateenAt a Clinton speech was seen,A...
View ArticleHypocrite and sex-abuser Dennis Hastert thinks guy he molested should give...
If you want to know how shameless Republican hypocrisy is, you need go no further than disgraced former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.Jailed former House Speaker Dennis Hastert says a...
View ArticleReport: Hastert was paying man to keep quiet about sexual abuse dating from...
A new report in the New York Timesfills in some important details about former Republican House Speaker Denny Hastert's shocking indictment:J. Dennis Hastert, the former speaker of the House of...
View ArticleDisgraced Republican Speaker Hastert cuts settlement deal with one of the men...
Disgraced former Republican Speaker of the House and convicted child molester Dennis Hastert has reportedly settled one of his ongoing legal issues surrounding his abuse of teenagers during his time as...
View ArticleMark Foley. Dennis Hastert. Matt Gaetz. And Republicans want to pontificate...
If you’ve been watching the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, you’ve seen a whole lot of posturing. Along with that, you’ve seen a lot of discussion...
View ArticleCartoon: Speaker of the House alternates
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View ArticleThe most sought after but most unpopular job in Washington, DC
What is one of the most sought after but dangerous jobs in our nation’s capital? No, it’s not a secret service agent protecting the president. It’s speaker of the House of Representatives when the...
View ArticleThe GOP and sexuality - They ain't your ancestors Puritans
Ok, it’s time to address the Republicans and their relationship to sexuality. In other words, it’s time to have the talk.Every time you turn around the Republicans are getting mired in many things...
View ArticleThe Republican Standard For Truth
Picture a horizontal bar 10 feet up in the air. Good behavior for Republicans is if they walk UNDER the bar. Republicans say Democrats have behaved well if and only if they jump OVER the bar 10 feet...
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