TPMmuckraker thinks... maybe. I say Hastert will cut the congressional page in half, as it were. He'll announce that he won't run for speaker next year, but that he'll stay on the job this year just to keep the story going for another 4 weeks, and to ensure that we have a sexual-predator-enabler running the Republican party for another 3 months.
UPDATE: My prediction is gaining credence:
"Looks like right now [Hastert] will keep his job for a maximum of one and one-half months," said a top party aide, adding that in the meantime Hastert may fire some staffers. Other aides said it remained unclear how long he would stay.Ah yes, fire the evil staffers who made the Speaker of the House enable the child predator against his will. If he's that weak a personality, that he simply can't think on his own, then why in God's name should he remain Speaker another day?
