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Speaker of the House Starts Blogging

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the grass-roots-politics dept.

Bjimba writes "Denny Hastert, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, has just started his own blog on the official speaker.gov site. I don't know if he'll keep up with it, but from reading his initial post, it seems clear that he's not employing ghostbloggers."

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  1. Right it's him by ackthpt · · Score: 2, Funny
    No spelling errors, nearly typed. it's been scrubbed by a staffer.

    Looks OK, Sir, I just editted out the part about letting all those filthy stinking liberals in New Orleans rot in their own stew.

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    1. Re:Right it's him by Humorously_Inept · · Score: 4, Funny

      Technically, it may be OK. The problem I have with his blog is the style it's written in. He writes like an elementary school student. Someone should teach him about varying sentence length and structure. Reading his blog is like reading an incoming telegraph. He's got a case of stop and go traffic going on there. Robots might appreciate it but humans probably would not. This has been a demonstration.

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  2. Uh oh... by 47Ronin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Better hope he's not Catholic cause his Sunday school teacher might object to him blogging!

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    Those who laugh at you for you having a Mac.. are the people who constantly call you to fix their PC.
  3. His favorite sites by scallions · · Score: 2, Funny

    Seems Denny's partial to amateur wrestling and Johnny Cash. Don't call him Sue.

  4. I've been saying..... by imboboage0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've been saying for years that we should be trying to /. US governement sites other than NASA!!! That, or Microsoft depending on what you dislike more.

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  5. Needs reader comments by Slashdoot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just so Rush Limbaugh can be right there shouting, "FIRST!!!11"

  6. Re:His words seem genuine by plover · · Score: 1, Funny
    Thank goodness he doesn't have a "talkback" feature

    I was going to disagree with you, but then I got an image of just how many penis birds and gnaa posts would be filling his server. *shudder*

    Of course, if that simply diverted the trolls away from slashdot for a while, I guess that'd be all right with me...

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  7. This should get good by stinerman · · Score: 5, Funny

    A future Hastert blog:

    OMG!!!! What a day! :-(

    Georgie said that he didn't think that I was doing enough to kill the McCain amendment in conference committee. Then I got a call from Dick, and he said that I needed to get the troops in line for the upcoming appropriations bill. They both are so mean sometimes! WTF!!! I just want to do fun speaker stuff like bang my gavel and shout "THERE WILL BE ORDER IN THE HOUSE!" at freshman congressmen, but these guys make me feel really underappreciated. I told Tom about it, and he said that I should just chill out and not worry about them. :-( [sigh]

    I was feeling really depressed until I got a call from Condi, who said that she wanted someone to go shopping with her. I had an excellent time with her. We went to The Mall and bought a few odds and ends. She really cheered me up when she did an impression of John Kerry. She spoke in a monotone voice and pulled the sides of her eyes down to look like a basset hound and she said "GLOBAL TEST! GLOBAL TEST!" and "I VOTED FOR IT BEFORE I VOTED AGAINST IT!" ROFLMAO!!!! After we were done laughing, some lady next to us was shopping for flip-flops! Can you believe it! LOLLERSKATES!!!!