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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (6943)	10/12/2006 6:47:33 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 224722

Shays strikes back When the congressional page scandal broke last month, Democrats across the country saw a chance to lambaste Republican leadership -- including Connecticut U.S. House candidate Diane Farrell, who called on House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert to step down. But when Sen. Edward M. Kennedy came to Connecticut last week to help her campaign, Republican Rep. Christopher Shays hit back, the Hartford Courant reports. "I know the speaker didn't go over a bridge and leave a young person in the water, and then have a press conference the next day," said Mr. Shays, referring to the 1969 incident in which the Massachusetts Democrat drove a car that plunged into the water and a young campaign worker died. "Dennis Hastert didn't kill anybody," he added. Said Courant reporter David Lightman: "The GOP had seemed to be in deep political trouble a week ago, when many Democrats were stridently insisting that Hastert quit -- and pressing their Republican opponents to make the same demand. "But so far, the Democrats' idea to make Hastert the villain has not worked."