Jon Stewart Rips On Unending GOP Scandals: Dennis “I've Got My Own Problems” Hastert Just Plays The Tape...

October 16, 2006 11:52 PM

host Jon Stewart skewered the GOP's unending string of scandals on Monday night's show.

Playing on the fact that House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) has had to ask for so many resignations, Stewart joked that Hastert now just plays a recording to ask disgraced congressmen to resign. He also touched on Hastert's own problems and involvement in the Mark Foley page scandal by called the politician Dennis "I've got my own problems" Hastert.

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Hastert, Reynolds Using “Scheduling Excuses” To Get Out Of Campaigning In Wake Of Foley Scandal…

TPMuckraker Paul Kiel October 17, 2006 12:14 AM

Shortly after the Mark Foley scandal blew up, Speaker Dennis Hastert boasted to Rush Limbaugh that there was no knocking him off stride -- he was planning to campaign in thirty different districts in the month preceding the election.

It's not happening.

The cancellations are frequent but quiet, so it's been nearly impossible to keep track of them all. The Washington Post last week put at 12 the growing tally of scrubbed events that were to feature Hastert or another scandal-tarnished figure, NRCC chair Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-NY).

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