Lard Waffles

Talking Points Memo notes the Hastert backtrack:

Denny Hastert just sent a letter to Soros in which he writes that groups that support drug legalization, which Soros has helped fund, are "the drug groups that I referred to in my comments on the Fox News Sunday program. Chris Wallace said, 'drug cartels.' I did not."

Marshall has more on the Hastert controversy in other posts. I heard about this the other day, and happened to catch Newt Gingrich gripping the slime ball in his teeth yesterday, repeating the charge on NPR about Soros and drug cartels.

Comparing Soros's funding of lobbying organizations dedicated to ending the idiotic drug war with drug cartels is like shooting someone, then pleading not guilty on the account that the victim would eventually die at some unspecified point in the future. Besides, if you consider the Bush clan's ties to, oh, I don't know, Florida--where drug money apparently is a major source of funding for almost everything (including political campaigns for offices like the governorship)--well, I'm beginning to see why Hastert normally keeps such a low profile. The guy is fat, ugly, AND stupid.

Considering Denny's size, which probably makes using a standard sized toilet a bit difficult, it's not surprising that he's taken to pulling stuff out of his ass.