Huh? What?

*House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) told The Washington Post that he had learned this spring of inappropriate 'contact' between Foley and a 16-year-old page. Boehner said he then told House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.). Boehner later contacted The Post and said he could not remember whether he talked to Hastert.

*In the spring of 2006 Congressman Tom Reynolds approached Dennis Hastert, and informed him of the inappropriate contact with pages. The Speaker does not explicitly recall this conversation.

*Kirk Fordham, former senior aide to ex-Rep. Mark Foley and Rep. Tom Reynolds says that had more than one conversation prior to 2005 with senior staff at the highest levels of the House of Representatives asking them to intervene when he was informed of Mr. Foley's inappropriate behavior. Hastert's office has said that Dennis does not remember that ever happening.




*A confidential Justice Department legal memo sent to the White House in August 2002 concluded that interrogation of detainees can involve "cruel, inhuman or degrading" acts without violating U.S. and international laws prohibiting torture. Sean McCormack, press aide for National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, said that Rice "does not recall seeing those memos".

*Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also said she cannot recall then-CIA chief George Tenet warning her of an impending al-Qaida attack in the United States, as a new book claims he did two months before the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

I have personally not smoked pot in several years now, but I have many friends who still do.




Every one of them has a better short and long term memory than many of the Republicans in Washington right now. I feel like we are listening to a Peter Gabriel song.