Has-tert-ism: DEF: Doing something by doing nothing at all. A reference to the moribund GOP speaker of the house whose contribution to Late 20th and Early 21st century politics was to do nothing and claim he was doing something or vice-versa. See also: Mark Foley and "blame the victims".
The House ethics committee launched a wide-ranging investigation into Congress's handling of information about a Florida lawmaker and teenage pages yesterday, as Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) vowed to keep his job, saying, "I haven't done anything wrong."
Hastertism: "I haven't done anything wrong" when in fact, he did nothing at all when he should have been doing his job.
