Denny Hastert Mad Enough to Threaten to Sit On Someone's Face

And considering his size, that could hurt!

From CNN and an interesting story showing some in-fighting plus how much the Bushies truly appreciate the whore service Congress has been providing them for six years now (cough):

The White House tried to cool congressional anger Thursday over a report linking House Speaker Dennis Hastert to a wide-ranging corruption probe, denying the story was leaked to punish Hastert for criticizing the FBI's raid of a lawmaker's office.

Hastert demanded a "full retraction" of an ABC News report that he is being investigated in connection with the Jack Abramoff corruption probe, and he speculated that the leak was meant as retaliation by Justice Department officials.

Hastert has been a particularly vocal critic of an FBI search of a Democratic lawmaker's office Saturday and suggested the leak was meant to intimidate him.

"This is one of the leaks that come out to try to intimidate people, and we're just not going to be intimidated on it," Hastert told Chicago radio station WGN on Thursday.

White House spokesman Tony Snow denied there was any effort to hit back at Hastert, and he said the Justice Department and lawmakers were working out a deal that would return material seized from Rep. William Jefferson's office to the House.

Retractions, of course, are ever only so useful. Like in court, when an attorney or prosecutor says something really nasty and then "withdraws" it from the record, as if the jury can forget they heard the usually damaging and/or inflammatory question or comment.

I also continue to suspect there's a significant back-story here to unfold (if it will) about why Hastert is suddenly so concerned about an apparently sleazy Dem, Wm Jefferson, as in, "Why is Hastert so worried about Jefferson in terms of how it could come back on Hastert for his own nefarious behavior?"