From Time.com:
House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) will not seek reelection to the Republican leadership when his members return as a minority party after taking heavy losses in Tuesday’s elections, a Republican official tells TIME. Hastert, 64, a low-key former high school wrestling coach, was beloved by members as a “good cop,” compared to the enforcer style of the longtime number two leader, former Rep. Tom Delay (R-Tex.). But Hastert was badly damaged by questions about how much he had known about former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) and his contact with pages, and members felt Hastert also handled the aftermath of the revelations clumsily. more
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So, is this the dismantling of Delay’s machine? The machine that delivered vote after vote for Bush?
