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Hastert has come a long way since January 1999, when his colleagues turned to the former high school economics teacher and wrestling coach after Newt Gingrich was dumped and his designated successor Bob Livingston suddenly quit. Hastert was widely dismissed as a pawn of more conservative and less presentable back-room operators like majority leader Dick Armey and majority whip Tom DeLay during the last two years of the Clinton Administration. Democrats called him the accidental Speaker, who they predicted would return to the back benches when they retook the House in the 2000 elections. "It was overwhelming," Hastert says...
...under G.O.P. control and earned the fealty of his troops, who often shout, "Coach! Coach!" when he walks into their caucus meetings. Hastert's keen sense of the commonplace favors and bills his members need to survive the next election is in contrast to with Gingrich's millenarian frothings. "Newt had a vision for the year 2020," says South Carolina Representative Lindsey Graham. "Denny is thinking about next Tuesday." A conservative, Hastert has also done what DeLay and Armey could not: convinced pivotal G.O.P. moderates that he cares about them too. And he should. In a closely divided House, their...
...idea his ode would be so successful, and he displays an endearing concern for parental sensitivities. "You know what, dude? I made this tape for all my homeboys. I didn't think I'd be talking to TIME magazine. I'm a little worried about Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich. I don't want to get anybody riled up. I just figured, since I'm a pothead, why can't me and the other potheads have a little joke between ourselves." Boozers shouldn't feel left out. Afroman has also recorded a song called Let's All Get Drunk...
However, others stress his association with the regulation-slashing efforts of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and claim that he is beholden to big business...
DENNIS HASTERT Speaker, formerly Mr. Nice Guy, mugs campaign-finance-reform vote. Even Newt never did this...