Speaker Hastert implies Soros takes money from Drug Cartels!

[KoKo]

From Loyd Grove's column in NY Daily News. BTW Hastert gets his money from PFIZER which is trying to stop folks from getting prescription drugs from England and Ireland as they have done in Canada. Thanks to Josh Marshall's TPM site for posting this:

The Briefing

LOOSE-TONGUED SPEAKER? Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert - having already enraged some New Yorkers with his remarks about local office-holders' "unseemly scramble" for federal money after 9/11 - yesterday opened a second front. On "Fox News Sunday," the Illinois Republican insinuated that billionaire financier George Soros, who's funding an independent media campaign to dislodge President Bush, is getting his big bucks from shady sources. "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," Hastert mused. An astonished Chris Wallace asked: "Excuse me?" The Speaker went on: "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."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/227158p-195011c.html

[wndycty]

1. We had it yesterday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x686504

[tandot]

2. If I would be Soros, I would slap a big law suit on Hastert

this is outrageous and so typical Republican. They lie and make insinuations to smear anyone supporting the Democrats. Great family values.

[Poiuyt]

3. I don't know that Dennis Hastert doesn't get his money

from being a male prostitute. I really don't.

[madrchsod]

6. he doesn`t get money -he works for food

he keeps getting fatter and fatter..who knows,someday he will explode....

[madrchsod]

4. he can say anything he wants

and the dumb asses in this district will vote for him. he`s become an embarrassment but it doesn`t matter as long as they feed him he`ll keep spreading the karl rove talking points....

[Fovea]

5. Hey Dennis!

I hope you enjoy that you are the little caesar of DeLay land.
Say hi to the incoming Senator, Barak Obama.