Conservatives blast Hastert reaction to Jefferson search

Washington Times:

Conservatives yesterday expressed confusion and outrage over House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's defense of a Democratic congressman whose Capitol Hill office was raided last weekend by the FBI.
"Only thing I can figure is that Denny got up one morning and said, 'Our approval with the public is at 27 percent -- how can I drive that down further?'?" said former Rep. Bob Barr, Georgia Republican.
House Republicans, meanwhile, refused to criticize their leader, who joined Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in accusing the Justice Department of violating "protocols and procedures" because of the FBI's Saturday night seizure of records from the offices Rep. William J. Jefferson, Louisiana Democrat.
Radio host Rush Limbaugh yesterday told his millions of listeners that the Hastert-Pelosi alliance shows the GOP has become "politically tone-deaf," while a Louisiana senator was the only elected Republican in Washington to criticize the defense of congressional privilege by Mr. Hastert, Illinois Republican.
"For congressional leaders to react by trying to ban or limit searches of congressional offices will only destroy what little faith and confidence in the institution is left," said Sen. David Vitter, Louisiana Republican. "Make no mistake, the American people will come to one conclusion, that congressional leaders are trying to protect their own from valid investigation."

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The political impact of the Jefferson case -- the New Orleans congressman who prosecutors say hid $90,000 in bribe money in his freezer -- drew Mr. Limbaugh's attention.
"Here you have the Democrats attempting ... to craft as a campaign theme the Republican 'culture of corruption,' and lo and behold, delivered to the Republicans on a silver platter is Congressman William Jefferson," the nation's No. 1 talk-radio host said yesterday. "So you would think that the Republican leadership would understand there's an opportunity here."

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There is more. Hastert and the Congress should lose on this fight. They are dead wrong and totally out of touch with the country and with reality.

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