[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Nancy & I finally agree on something.

Yup. What about Hastert? I remember him being useless too.

[TomGuy]

What about Hastert? I remember him being useless too.

Hastert did manage a lot of arm twisting to get Bush's Medicare prescription bill passed. Hastert called for a 15-minute vote. He had 3 or 4 hold outs on the Pubbie side. He delayed calling the vote for nearly 3 hours of backroom 'discussions' to convert the hold outs and get the billed passed.