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Boehner has broken but which they presume to still govern. nancy pelosi former speaker of the house, who came in after the hastert reign, to clean up and drain the swamp was on msnbc just a few hours ago and was asked about this. let us hear what she had to say. when mr. hastert was the speaker, our run for winning the house in 06 was to say that we were winning against a culture of cronyism and incompetence. at the time, many indictments but we had no idea that that would include the speaker of the house. i don t know janell. tim mckay s point. we tried. it goes on. are you asking me is this the nature of congress? i don t know, is this the nature of power? although this happened when he wasn t in congress. although the payoffs happened presumably after. i don t know. in fairness, his actual crime is not something that he appears to, as far as we know in terms of the details that have ....