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...Hastert, calling the ursine Speaker "a father, teacher, coach who cares about the children of this country." This, despite the fact that Hastert's inability to control the Foley fiasco -both before the Florida Congressman was outed as an antic pursuer of adolescent House pages and after the scandal broke -could well cost the Republicans control of the Congress. Why was the President so eager to dump Lott and protect Hastert? Because George W. Bush prizes loyalty over competence or accountability...
...today, Crane laughed. "Oh, geez, I don't recall any such incident. I don't recall even being at a party at his house. That's not to say that conceivably I wasn't, years ago." (Crane adds that he's still dry. "That was the easiest habit ever broke in my life. I drank Heineken for 50 years, and now I see those frosty bottles going by me in front of me at a reception - I can't even remember what it tasted like.") Crane is, coincidentally, the brother of ex-Rep. Dan Crane, another Illinois Republican...
...Worst Case of Deja Vu - I thought I was familiar with the feeling of deja vu until I arrived back here in Fallujah in February. The moment I stepped off of the helicopter, just as dawn broke, and saw the camp just as I had left it ten months before - that was deja vu. Kind of unnerving. It was as if I had never left. Same work area, same busted desk, same chair, same computer, same room, same creaky rack, same... everything. Same everything for the next year. It was like entering a parallel universe. Home wasn...
...strongest, most essential argument. He backs it up by recounting both the courageous sacrifices made by students in Little Rock and Oxford to gain access to all white schools, as well as the heartbreaking assault and robbery of civil rights heroine Rosa Parks by a black youth who broke into her Detroit home...
...which covered this story extensively from the instant they broke it, was the first news organization to post excerpts from the actual exchanges-both the less-disturbing e-mails and the highly explicit Instant messages that finally forced Foley to resign...