You know, every once in a while I just have to cringe when I hear someone like House Speaker Denny Hastert make the clumsy effort to imply that George Soro's money comes from drug cartels.
HASTERT: ...You know, I don't know where George Soros gets his money. I don't know where -- if it comes overseas or from drug groups or where it comes from. And I...WALLACE: Excuse me?
HASTERT: Well, that's what he's been for a number years -- George Soros has been for legalizing drugs in this country. So, I mean, he's got a lot of ancillary interests out there.
WALLACE: You think he may be getting money from the drug cartel?
HASTERT: I'm saying I don't know where groups -- could be people who support this type of thing. I'm saying we don't know. The fact is we don't know where this money comes from.
After all the time I spend bitching about Lord Pork Pork (AKA M. Moore), the bloody House Speaker has to pull a bonehead stunt like this one...
I suppose he's just trying to uphold the tradition that the GOP is the Stupid Party.
Thanks to The Volokh Conspiracy for the original link.
Headline:
"GOP says Earth is flat; Democrats disagree."
Watch the pundits argue about geophysics for the next 21 days.
Posted by: Ara Rubyan at August 31, 2004 2:23 PMI've been asking you why you were voting for them for months....
Come to the dark side Casey, it's much more fun. We have great connections to all the really good drugs. That is until they make the DemoDrugist connection starts to snowball and we invade Columbia to rid the world of 527's
Pary on dude.
Posted by: Mark Adams at August 31, 2004 10:25 PMIf I really thought that Hastert was the current, and/or future of the GOP, I would think about it.
But you'd have to let me shoot Moore, first. I can deal with Franken when he's not being too twitchy, but Moore just irks the hell out of me. ;-)
BTW, what's y'alls reaction to the recent rumors that the GOP is thinking of running Jeb in '08?
I mean, if they're printable, or anything. Heh.
Then again, they could save money by recycling all the '92 posters if we end up with a Jeb/Hillary matchup...
You're right about one thing, Casey---The Speaker doesn't represent the true face of the Inner Party at the GOP, as evidenced by the fact that he was visable during the convention.
the true face of the party is the ultra-right wing of Ralph Reed, pat Robertson, John Ascroft, and Dubya. The people who want to take evolution out of the textbooks and the vote away from women.
Posted by: Don Myers at September 7, 2004 6:08 PMDon, we'll just have to agree to disagree about that; obviously I don't. :)
If I honestly thought that were true, I would probably be stumping for Kerry -for all his faults- right now...