Barney Frank calls out Dennis Hastert & GOP hypocrisy with a perfect statement

[karynnj]

4. Not to mention, it goes a bit too far -- all of these were worse, both in what they

did, but in the fact that all had pretended to a being "moral" and "upstanding", while Clinton, from at least the 1992 election agreed he had "caused pain in his marriage." However, "choir boy" goes too far, though I assume that may be Frank's hook to get attention to all the details wonderfully laid out.

What it likely does show is that among men with the ambition to run for office and the customs that in many cases make it a norm that the family lives in the home state, might lead to many elected officials being unfaithful.

Hastert goes beyond all of these if, as appears to be the case, he took advantage of a student who was under his guidance as either a teacher or coach - or both. I wonder if the slowness of his reaction to the Foley accusations, where pages were abused by Congressmen was partly that he did not really see this as being as despicable as it was because he had done essentially the same thing to high schoolers. Even if the student was an 18 year old senior, this is unethical. If, as might also be the case, the action was not consensual, it is despicable regardless of age.