Hastert and ... tobacco

[Chris Burford]

To lose one speaker, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks
like carelessness.

But already Gingrich and DeLay are scrambling to get consensus for a
"healer" in Dennis Hastert, who has worked with DeLay in the past. 

About whom very little dramatic is known except there is one video clip of
him losing  his temper questioning an official of the Federal Food and
Drugs Agency over ... funny thing ... tobacco.

Now why should such a calm, healing, man, lose his temper over an innocuous
recreational product like tobacco?

What's the story? 

Chris Burford

London.