You can't make this stuff up...

Politicians, at times, can say some really amazing things. Take for example these couple of items as reported on Taegan Goddard's Political Wite today...

In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, embattled Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert is blaming Democrats for the growing controversy over the Mark Foley scandal...suggesting that "operatives aligned with former President Bill Clinton knew about the allegations and were perhaps behind the disclosure in the weeks just prior to the Nov. 7 elections."

However, it was noted, that The Hill, one of the capitol's leading political journals, reported that it was actually GOP operatives who leaked the e-mails to ABC News, which broke the story last Friday.

But it gets better. You wonder how someone can actually think in these terms...

"Democratic sex scandals have been far worse." A quote from former GOP House Speaker, and potential 2008 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, according to the Associated Press.

Just a note to Hastert and Gingrich - the best definition of Damage Control is "deal with it."