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Team Turk on Thursday, October 05, 2006 12:12:27 PM
Kansas City Star chronicles
Hastert criticism.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s political support showed signs of cracking Wednesday as Republicans fled a scandal spawned by computer messages from former Rep. Mark Foley to teenage male pages.
Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri, third-ranking leader, pointedly told reporters he would have handled the matter differently than the speaker, had he known of it.
“I think I could have given some good advice here, which is: You have to be curious, you have to ask all the questions you can think of,” Blunt said. “You absolutely can’t decide not to look into activities because one individual’s parents don’t want you to.”