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...contrast, the President went all cuddly in his defense of Hastert, calling the ursine Speaker "a father, teacher, coach who cares about the children of this country." This, despite the fact that Hastert's inability to control the Foley fiasco -both before the Florida Congressman was outed as an antic pursuer of adolescent House pages and after the scandal broke -could well cost the Republicans control of the Congress. Why was the President so eager to dump Lott and protect Hastert? Because George W. Bush prizes loyalty over competence or accountability...
...Congressman is having some people over and wanted me to invite you. Really casual - bring whoever you want." The Congressman was Mark Foley, at the time an obscure second-term Florida Republican. The invitation was extended to a friend of mine who, like me, was covering Capitol Hill for Roll Call. The extender was Kirk Fordham, then an aide to Foley, and the event was an impromptu springtime evening barbeque a decade...
...some time felt that Foley was a little more friendly toward him than was comfortable, way friendlier than even the most chummy newsmaker or source need ever be. So he hollered across the newsroom that Foley had invited him over, but he wasn't sure of the Congressman's intentions so he'd only go if I would join him. It was a chance to engage in some source development and perhaps some amateur anthropology. You hang out in some strange situations as a journalist. It might even be fun. We headed over...
...finished with work but not quite ready to hit the hay. Pointing to some shrubbery in the corner, Foley said, "See those bushes over there? Last week at a party, Phil Crane was on his hands and knees throwing up in those bushes." Crane was a senior, archconservative Republican congressman from Chicago who entered alcohol treatment in 2000 and lost his re-election bid in 2004. Whether this was a dramatic touch or a true story is unclear. Asked about the tale today, Crane laughed. "Oh, geez, I don't recall any such incident. I don't recall even being...
...After we left, I was in touch with him from time to time as a friendly news contact who was always good for a laugh. He once gave me a story-making quote for a scoop in Legal Times about another scandal. It was an account of another G.O.P. congressman saying, at a closed-door January 1997 Republican Conference meeting, that then-Speaker Newt Gingrich's own attorney had charged that Gingrich had "lied to him and had deceived the [ethics] committee...