WashTimes: Out with the Liar, In with the Adulterer!

About those Republican family values: Today, the Moonie-owned archconservative Washington Times calls for the ouster of Dennis Hastert as the Speaker of the House. The paper blames Hastert for looking the other way while a child predator preyed on vulnerable underage pages in the halls of Congress. Then, the Speaker lied about it.

On Friday, Mr. Hastert dissembled, to put it charitably, before conceding that he, too, learned about the e-mail messages sometime earlier this year.

But what is amazing is with whom they want to replace Hastert the Liar...
While I applaud the Washington Times for standing against the GOP's leaders, who are hell-bent on protecting Hastert et al, despite the growing pile of evidence showing they enabled a pedophile, I can't help but laugh at this...

A special, one-day congressional session should elect a successor. We nominate Rep. Henry Hyde, also of Illinois, the chairman of the House International Relations Committee whose approaching retirement ensures that he has no dog in this fight. He has a long and principled career, and is respected on both sides of the aisle.

It is just me, or does anybody else remember that Henry Hyde is an adulterer? I find it simply breathtaking that the party of so-called family values cannot look within its own ranks to find one solitary soul capable of leadership who does not suffer the taint of corruption, pedophilia, addiction, criminal indictment or adultery.

But then again, in this sense, perhaps Hyde would make the perfect Republican leader.