Oops -Ensign in free fall

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23841.html
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Sen. John Ensign’s political career continued its free-fall Wednesday, with his resignation from a top Senate leadership post and increasing uncertainty on Capitol Hill about whether more damaging details of his infidelity would continue to leak out.

Frustrated GOP leaders moved swiftly to distance themselves from the sex scandal, with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) accepting Ensign’s resignation as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee.

The senator has yet to publicly explain the circumstances of the resignations of Hampton and her husband, Doug, from Ensign’s staff last year during the affair. The two left his staff in the spring of 2008, even though the affair carried on for months after their departure. Questions continue to linger over why Ensign came forward Tuesday — nearly a year after the relationship ended — whether his admission followed an attempt to extort money from him and if the Hamptons’ departure from his staff was related to the affair.

If Doug Hampton was removed from his office to cover up the affair, “that’d be a big problem,” said Melanie Sloan, head of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

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If the GOP feel that Ensign had to resign from their leadership position, why hasn't he resigned from the Senate?

We've seen this before, condemnation of others, while engaging in the condemned behavior.

Do I care that Ensign had an affair...no.

What I do care about is that he was rabid in his condemnation of others. This is the "Swaggert Syndrome": "You are going to hell, but I'm forgiven".

One difference is that the D's don't claim to be angelic, the R's do. When caught, the R's beg forgiveness for a "slight", while crucifying a D for the same situation. These are the people that tried to hang Clinton w/a blue dress...all the while, wearing a blue dress.

This will drive a few more away from the R ranks and file...soon, all that will be left are deluded pseudo-christians...all 150 of them.




edited for typo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BGdx5miu_U

Bush's "Yeah Yeah Yeah" team in congress left Obama a sinking ship of state.

Edit...Preachers and politicians will always have more money than most people, because they never spend any cash on work gloves.

I love it, because the GOPers all act like the deputy Pope when they talk the talk.

but what's up w/the guy in the skeleton suit...:D

Thanks for the link...:D

It was two wetsuits, a buttplug and a diaper..

Let's keep our Republican kinkiness straight, eh.

but you've scarred me for life w/that visual...:D

:hi:

Senator Ensign is an active member of Promise Keepers®, a Christian men’s fellowship (motto:” Men of Integrity”).

Central to Promise Keepers® membership is a pledge to keep the Seven Promises, among them:

PROMISE 3: A Promise Keeper is committed to practicing spiritual, moral, ethical, and sexual purity.

PROMISE 4: A Promise Keeper is committed to building strong marriages and families through love, protection and biblical values.

Well … five out of seven ain’t bad.

Besides, Mr. Ensign got a 100% rating from the Christian Coalition on family issues and 100% ratings from the Family Research Council (”Defending Family, Faith, and Freedom”)
and Donald Wildmon’s American Family Association.

”Marriage recognizes the ideal of a father and mother living together to raise their children. Marriage is the cornerstone on which our society was founded … It is not right to
mold marriage to fit the desires of a few, against the wishes of so many, and to ignore the important role of marriage.”

– Senator John Ensign (R-NV), defending the Sanctity of Marriage Act on the Senate floor, 2004

http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/john-ensign-promise-keeper/

agree not to be in a room alone with a woman other than their wives

:rofl:

...someone was watching????

:rofl:

It's looking more and more the case every day.

In an AP release written by David Espo it was also revealed that in 2002 that "Ensign abruptly dropped from public view. A person familiar with that episode, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said Tuesday the senator told a close associate the absence followed an earlier affair."

What is strange about the entire episode is that while it was taking place Cynthia Hampton received a promotion and pay raise at two political entities con tolled by Ensign. Her husband was also an employee and additional payments were made to the couple's son. It seems that the only regret of Hampton's was that he decided to "air this very personal matter" and said that she will tell her side of the story. I guess we can look forward to some kind of book deal.

Don't you just love these "Promise Keeper" Republican hypocrites?

and I'm lovin' this one. How how much was Cindy Hampton's severance package?
How did they manage to buy that McMansion? :popcorn:

Sounds fishy.

Looks like Ensign paid off once already.
Time for this creepy hypocrite to resign.

Ensign left his presidential aspirations out in the rain with this affair.

Let's say you're paid to pick apples in an orchard and that you're paid by the pound. So you go out and pick 45 pounds of apples. But before you bring them in, you discover that about three pounds of apples are spoiled because Larry Craig, David Vitter, and John Ensign went around fucking them. Do you toss them out and lower you total weight from 45 pounds to 42 pounds, or do you just hide them down in the bottom of the basket and hope nobody notices until you get the pay off?

That, my friend, isn't hypocrisy. It's marketing.

Nicely done :D

Then it must be republican policy to screw your staffers and their spouses. I see a parallel here.

It was rethuglican policy to screw the entire country for eight years under the corrupt and evil BushCo Regime.

He's just a rethuglican Senator. How is he supposed to know the difference between right and wrong? :shrug:


This post from your link is special ... Maybe he can share a restroom with Larry Craig?

That one is sure to be deleted. :rofl: :rofl:

I always get a kick out of the rubes at FR, as they explain away yet another example of extreme Republican hypocrisy-

"Only the honorable can be made to suffer shame." - yeah, there sure are a lot of shameful sufferers inhabiting the GOP these days.

"I do not think that he should resign unless there is something beyond the affair. If there is illegality, he should resign." I agree, I prefer sanctimonious hypocrites leading the Republican Party.

"WE ought to be merciless when elected officials betray the public trust and the Constitutional limits on government,but we just might want to stop trying to insist on perfect people as officeholders." Well, except for George Bush and Dick Cheney.

"Because most Pub politicians still retain some sense of shame, and most conservative voters still retain a sense of outrage and disgust over moral lapses in their elected representatives. Liberal politicians have no sense of shame, and liberal voters are bereft of any sense of morality. " Yeah, right. Or maybe we just aren't hypocrites like you folks.

"Sometimes I regret that the US Capitol was not hit on 9/11, while Congress was in session." Al Qaeda sympathizer.

"Liberal voters aren't even consistent when it comes to holding Democrat politicians accountable when they are war profiteers. " Dick Cheney changed parties????

"Blackmail which is a kin to liberal inspired set up." huh? How'd the liberal get in the quid-pro-quoquo?

"Because Rats have no consciences or morals." :rofl: too stupid to comment on.

"Why does he resign but Clinton rolled along?" Jesus, this idiot doesn't remember the impeachment that the morally righteous Republicans forced on the American people?

"On the bright side, at least he isn’t queer." The homophobe chimes in.

"I know Ensign and have worked on three of his campaigns. He IS not a guy who goes out and trumpets family values and never has been. He is about the foolishness in DC and how to remove as much of it as possible." Well he could start removing it by resigning.

"All else being equal I’d prefer a senator who has good family values but I’d still rather have a cheater than someone who is in favor of abortion or something." 'or something?'

"After finding out that the charges against Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was basically a Liberal media rail job out of town.........proven a total set up and b.s. as are most Liberal premise......" Riiiight, Bush DOJ prosecutes (albeit incompetently) and Obama lets him off the hook.


What's funny about this is that, had this been a Democrat, you know these same folks would be screamin' in outrage for him/her to resign. Notice how no Democrats are commenting on this? I'm sure Republicans, like Ensign, would have no problems weighing in on any Democrat's exposed infidelities...well, until now. Personally, the affair is Ensign's business...but I do savor the hypocrisy. Of course, if he were paying for play by embezzling RNC funds...well, that'd be a crime.

this suit will be making national headlines:

Jun. 03, 2009
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
No deposition required yet from Gibbons in Mazzeo lawsuit
By DAVID KIHARA
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

Gov. Jim Gibbons won't yet be compelled to give a deposition in the lawsuit brought by a former Las Vegas cocktail waitress who accuses him of assaulting her in a parking garage.

Federal magistrate Peggy Leen said Tuesday that Gibbons and other co-defendants, including former Clark County Sheriff Bill Young, won't have to provide depositions until it's determined that the lawsuit can go to trial ...

http://www.lvrj.com/news/46803602.html

Resign John! Resign! :D

:rofl:

doubling.

"Federal records show Cynthia Hampton was on the payroll of Ensign's Battle Born Political Action Committee at $1,385.24 a month until she was appointed treasurer and her salary was doubled to $2,771.50 starting in February 2008.

Her salary also doubled at Ensign's campaign committee, where she was treasurer, beginning around the time the affair began. It went from $500 a month to $1,000 a month.

Records also show Doug Hampton received a monthly salary of $13,555 as an administrative assistant in Ensign's Senate office. He received a payment of $19,679 for his final month of employment and was off the payroll on May 1, 2008, according to Senate records."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090617/ap_on_go_co/us_ensign_affair

Now, maybe her responsibilities significantly just happened to increase, but this is similar to what John Edwards was supposedly investigated for.

Editted because Federal really does need it's F - that a clumsy cut and paste lost

weave..

Can we all say: P-A-Y-O-F-F?

Who the hell is Sen. Sinsign kidding about the affair being his worst sin? Paying for silence about it might even be worse, IMO. Bribery by a public official to silence someone not merely about the affair, but about how campaign donations were being spent on the mistress and her family?

Ho-kay...family values at it again! :rofl: