I’m not sure how this qualified, but apparently in Hastert-speak, “taking responsibility” means claiming you didn’t do anything wrong, preventing any personal rammifications, and then blaming Clinton.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert will take responsibility for the unfolding page sex scandal but insist he will stay on as leader of House Republicans, a House GOP official said Thursday, as leaders of the ethics committee weighed when and how to act.
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“All I know is what I hear and what I see,” he said in an interview with the Chicago Tribune on the eve of the ethics meeting. “I saw Bill Clinton’s adviser, Richard Morris, was saying these guys knew about this all along, If somebody had this info, when they had it, we could have dealt with it then.”
Boy, gotta love those good ethics of the right. That’s takin’ responsibility if I ever saw’d it! Well done, speaker, well done.
