Send the loser to Japan?? Are we completely mad?? Send that lieing asshole HOME! Let him live his live out in shame. It's bad enough we'll havet o apy him retiremnet until he dies....

Why is it that the US government treats so many high-profile ambassadorships as sinecures? Clinton seemed to buck that trend somewhat, but even he had his grace-and-favour appointments.

Sir Graham Fry, the British ambassador in Tokyo, is a career diplomat who served in Japan and across the region before his appointment. He's a fluent Japanese speaker.

Dennis Hastert is a former wrestling coach.

The possibility of Hastert going to Japan as ambassador is another example of Bush not giving a damn about the moral image of America projected abroad. To reward the leader of enablers of the most corrupt congress this congress ever experienced, by representing me to a culture wherein what Hastert has done would have probably caused wide spread cleansing seppuku to be practiced in that country, is an insult to the American people.

Bush could not have picked a more inappropriate country to station a quintessentially corrupt enabler hack politician. More appropriate would have been Israel, payback for all the favors he has done representing them through AIPAC.

Hastert's coming here? Hmmmmmm... I live five minutes from the south gate of Narita (the airport, that is) and work even closer. I'll have to keep a bucket of paint handy to welcome the man with.