BY JOE CONASON Republicans on Capitol Hill keep telling everyone how terribly shocked they are by the tawdry tale of Dennis Hastert, the former speaker of the House indicted for violations of federal money-laundering statutes in an effort to cover up alleged sexual abuse of a male high-school student many years ago. Long upheld as a paragon of Midwestern conservative values, Hastert represented a suburban Illinois district and became his party’s longest-serving speaker. Like Newt […]
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