When was the last time the GOP had a House Speaker

[Erika]

who didn't resign in disgrace? Hastert will be the next one.

[vicman]

1. He'll the third in a row

I read today.

[Erika]

2. GOP House Speakers don't do well in the morals arena

Surprise. It amazes me how Rove got the far righters to vote for such a lecherous party. He used them big time. Wonder if they are getting any smarter?

The FRC (Family Research Council) actually told me they were staying against the left in this issue because of the left usage of obscenities?

Newt, Livingston, and Hastert all have sex scandals but the FRC is talking about the obscenities of the left?

Feel free to contact them at www.frc.org

[Rowdyboy]

3. Joe Martin of Massachusetts...

MARTIN, Joseph William, Jr.
(1884—1968)

MARTIN, Joseph William, Jr., a Representative from Massachusetts; born in North Attleboro, Bristol County, Mass., November 3, 1884; attended the public schools and was graduated from North Attleboro High School in 1902; reporter on the Attleboro Sun and Providence Journal 1902-1908; publisher of the Evening Chronicle at North Attleboro since 1908 and also publisher of the Franklin (Mass.) Sentinel; member of the State house of representatives 1912-1914; served in the State senate 1914-1917; chairman of the Massachusetts Street Railway Investigating Commission in 1917; chairman of the Massachusetts legislative campaign committee in 1917; executive secretary of the Republican State committee 1922-1925; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1916, 1936, 1940, 1948, 1952, and 1956; permanent chairman of the Republican National Conventions in 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, and 1956; member of the Republican National Committee, serving as chairman 1940-1942; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and to the twenty succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1925-January 3, 1967); minority leader in the Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, Eighty-first, Eighty-second, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Congresses; Speaker of the House of Representatives (Eightieth and Eighty-third Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1966; returned to North Attleboro, Mass.; died in Hollywood, Fla., March 6, 1968; interment in Mount Hope Cemetery, North Attleboro, Mass.

He was a bit before my time, but I had heard of him.

[Erika]

4. Evidently a Massachusetts guy could stay clean

Thanks.

[Rowdyboy]

5. That was way back in the days of my youth when at least a few Republican

politicians deserved a measure of respect. They weren't always neanderthals. Actually, the Repubs of the 1950's/1960's were (comparatively speaking) gentlemen/ladies. I respect quite a few.

Today, that isn't the case.