Hell Is for Hasterts

By Jed Babbin

If Bill Clinton had done it, we'd be shouting for impeachment. When President Bush ordered the sequestration of documents seized from the office of Rep. William Jefferson (D-La), he was trying to calm outraged House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Hastert sided with the Democrats in demanding the return of evidence in a criminal investigation taken pursuant to a properly issued search warrant. It is only by the courage of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that the Hastert-Bush effort to obstruct justice wasn't immediately successful. Gonzales threatened to disobey an order to return the papers and to resign -- loudly -- if so ordered.