How Dennis Hastert Is Like Jared Fogle and Jerry Sandusky

[malaise]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/28/dennis-hastert-is-just-like-jared-fogle-and-jerry-sandusky.html
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Dennis Hastert, the former Speaker of the House whom everyone called “Coach,” pled guilty Wednesday to paying off a former student to cover up allegations of sexual abuse.

Hastert likely won’t go to prison—sentencing is set for February 29—but he is the latest in a sorry line of famous men entrusted with the care of minors who instead sexually abused them: Jerry Sandusky, convicted of 45 counts of abusing teenage boys he met through “The Second Mile,” a nonprofit he founded to help underprivileged youth; and Jared Fogle, who traded child pornography with the co-director of his foundation, set up to raise awareness of childhood obesity, and who paid to have sex with teenage girls.

In theory, these falls from grace should affect not only Hastert, Sandusky, and Fogle, but also their parent organizations. Penn State, whose beloved football coach, Joe Paterno, ignored the rumors about his assistant. Subway, which hastily took down its ubiquitous photos of “Subway Guy” when Fogle’s case broke.

Not to mention the Republican Party, which brushed off years of rumors about Hastert but which has so far escaped the censure that has fallen on Penn State and Subway.

Surely these cases are every parent’s worst nightmare: the wrestling coach or the football coach, the politician or the priest, someone entrusted with the physical and emotional safety of children, turns out to exploit that trust for sexual gratification.

[guillaumeb]

1. Hastert is also the creator of the "Hastert Rule",

an unofficial rule that in a GOP controlled House of Representatives, only those Bills that can be passed WITHOUT ANY DEMOCRATIC VOTES will be called for a vote. Hastert is the father of today's obstructionist GOP that will not permit any bipartisan approach to government.

But being a rich, white GOP ex-politician, he will be sheltered from any real punishment for any sexual predation that he may have committed.

[malaise]

2. Looks like they have dropped that

Budget just passed in the House

[guillaumeb]

4. Perhaps John Boehner's way of paying back the "Freedom Caucus" for their obstruction?

But Boehner himself was also a member of the Gingrich group that caused the first Federal government shutdown.

[gademocrat7]

3. Hastert needs to go to prison.

His Hastert Rule needs to be abolished.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Notice the time and date of Sentence.

Leap Day 2016,some body is going to get a slap on the ass with probation. This asshole would not last a week in prison. Pedophiles are fodder on the inside,it is the Code of the Inmates. His new name will be Bendover Hastert.