And Now a LaHood Moment

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Quotes from Ray LaHood on CNN today talking about Foleygate:

LAHOOD: To send 15 and 16-year-old boys and girls to Washington, D.C., it's an antiquated system. And my idea is let's suspend it, send the pages home, and have some scholarly people in Washington really evaluate the program and bring it into the 21st century. It just -- it's a program that simply is flawed. It has its flaws. We should fix it. And then if it's a valuable program, perhaps bring it back.

[CNN’s] M. O'BRIEN: Well, that's kind of a sorry state of affairs. In essence, what you're saying is that members of Congress can't be trusted to be around young people.

LAHOOD: Well, that's pretty obvious…

Wow. He doesn't think much of his peers.

And he’s still supporting his man Denny:

M. O'BRIEN: All right, let's shift gears here a little bit. You're a friend of Speaker Hastert. Can you here right now offer unequivocal support for the speaker in his job, in his staying in his job?

LAHOOD: Absolutely. The speaker has handled some very tough situations, whether it's the Tom DeLay, whether it's the Duke Cunningham, whether it's the Bob Ney. The speaker brought us through 9/11.

Yes, thank you Denny Hastert for getting us all through 9/11. I don’t know what I would have done without you. And LaHood reminds us again later in the interview how Denny got us through that dark day.

But I think when you look at Speaker Hastert's record and what he's had to deal with -- 9/11, ethical conduct on the part of at least three members of Congress -- he's done an extraordinary job.

And finally, Rep. Ray sees more fun and games coming.

I have no doubt that there are people in [the news] business that are doing a lots of investigative reporting and I have no doubt that there will probably be other disclosures.

Weeeeeee!