I'm still in semi-hiatus mode...

...as the residue of massive indulgence in good food, fine drink and wonderful company seems to have my mental gears grinding a bit more slowly than usual, but I'm just wondering...

Why does Dennis Hastert hate the Constitution of the United States? After all, he's the one who said...

"On occasion, a particular issue might excite a majority made up mostly of the minority. Campaign finance is a particularly good example of this phenomenon. The job of speaker is not to expedite legislation that runs counter to the wishes of the majority of his majority."

But the Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution, a document that's completely devoid of partisan reference (they didn't even have a word for the noxious "factions" that Jefferson was so determined to avoid, but which so inevitably sprung up), includes the Speaker of the House among the Constitutional officers of the United States, not as a representative of a party, but as the leader of the whole House. The Speaker's only proper majority, it would seem, would be the majority of members as a whole, untempered by factional considerations.

If you care about the Constitution, that is, which it would seem the Speaker doesn't...or maybe he just hasn't bothered to read it.