FLASHBACK: Ensign Called On Clinton To Resign After Admitting Affair — ‘He Has No Credibility Left’
FLASHBACK: Ensign Called On Clinton To Resign After Admitting Affair — ‘He Has No Credibility Left’
The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza reports that Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), a member of GOP leadership and a potential candidate for president in 2012, will hold a press conference later today in which he will acknowledge having an extramarital affair “with a campaign staffer who was married to an employee in Ensign’s Senate office.” Ensign flew back to Las Vegas to make the public announcement.
Since his election to the Senate in 2000, Ensign has been a leading conservative voice who demanded the resignation of former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig in September 2007. Ensign called Craig a “disgrace” after he was arrested in June 2007 in an airport men’s restroom on disorderly conduct charges. But when Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) acknowledged having an affair, Ensign didn’t call on him to resign.
Ensign has also been an ardent opponent of gay marriage. In Feb. 2004, Ensign announced his support for an amendment to the Constitution that would have defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Ensign said the amendment, which ultimately failed, was necessary to protect “the institution of marriage“:
“Sadly, the effort to redefine marriage against the wishes of a majority of the people is, with help from activist judges, succeeding,” Ensign said. “In order to defend the institution of marriage, uphold the rights of individual states, and maintain the will of the people, I believe we are compelled to amend our country’s constitution.”
“The effort to pass a constitutional amendment reaffirming marriage as being between a man and a woman only is being undertaken strictly as a defense of marriage against the attempt to redefine it and, in the process, weaken it,” Ensign said. “Marriage is an extremely important institution in this country and protecting it is, in my mind, worth the extraordinary step of amending our constitution.”
In 1998, while running for Nevada’s Senate seat against Harry Reid, Ensign called on President Clinton to resign in light of his admitted affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky:
“I came to that conclusion recently, and frankly it’s because of what he put his whole Cabinet through and what he has put the country through,” Ensign said Thursday, becoming the first member of the Nevada delegation to call for Clinton to quit. “He has no credibility left.”
How much “credibility” does Ensign have left?
“I believe that marriage should be defined as that between one man and one woman. You want to do what is ideal for children and all of the studies show that the ideal for children is to be in a household with a father and a mother.” [4/19/09] “Mr. President, I rise today to speak on a topic that is very important. That is the preservation of the most important structure in our society.” [7/13/04]"There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having these kinds of things happen, whether it's a Republican or Democratic senator — we certainly have had plenty of Democratic scandals in the past — we need people who are in office who will hold themselves to a little higher standard." [10/18/07]
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June 16th, 2009 at 6:30 pmThe biggest threat to marriage seems to be people who don’t take marriage seriously, not people who want to get married.
June 16th, 2009 at 6:31 pmEnsign is, of course, against same-sex marriage and for the “protection” of the instituion of marriage. Family values, after all.
June 16th, 2009 at 6:33 pmWell, this should give Letterman a break from non-stop Palin.
I usually hate to revel in people’s failures. I have my own, and it would be unseemly.
On the other hand this guy is a LAUGH RIOT! Suffer, you hypocritical SOB! You deserve every bit of humiliation you have coming. Thanks for protecting marriage and all!!!
June 16th, 2009 at 6:34 pmNot only was he unfaithful in his own marriage vows, but he was involved with the WIFE of a buy who worked for him!!
June 16th, 2009 at 6:36 pmMake your subordinate a cuckold – the ultimate betrayal.
Resign already you hypocrite
June 16th, 2009 at 6:39 pmI wonder if Sen. Ensign had any public statements regarding the fall of candidate John Edwards a year ago?
June 16th, 2009 at 6:40 pmOf course, I love it, but, on the other hand, I don’t see why Repugnacant hypocrisy is even news.
June 16th, 2009 at 6:41 pmAnd let’s not forget sports fans – Vitter didn’t admit to an affair, he admitted to schtupping hookers. That’s a violation of the law. Ensign should be driven from office.
June 16th, 2009 at 6:44 pmFor the Senator, the thong together with the woman’s lower back tattoo was just “a gift from God, but a call unto temptation” as they say.
So they had to pray together in the hotel bedroom to resolve this perplexing moral dilemma.
June 16th, 2009 at 6:44 pmOMG, a repub who’s a blazing hypocrite! Who ever heard of such a thing?
/sarcasm off
“Marriage should be between woman, a man, and however many mistresses he can keep on the side.”
June 16th, 2009 at 6:45 pmpart of the litmus test for pure republicanism is the unwillingness to look honesty in the eye – spin and lie your way out of anything. a second trait is to stand on whatever side that is opposite to the progression of society: so for 2009 – fall back on the views espoused in 1860.
this is hardly shocking – with the blatant racism flowing from the various party officials throughout the country – michelle obama being descended from a monkey ( i mean this is 2009). to the circulated photo of president obama darkened and only his eyes showing.
fact is the entire GOP is mired in denial – they preach purity of spirit yet bang anything in sight. they rail against the evils of homosexuality while sucking on any pipe within reach. i would pay to be an observer at judgement (suppose it is real) – imagine being before God as these righteous republicans present themselves – adulterers, gay bashers who love gay sex, leave their wives on their sick bed for the pretty young thing, willing to say and do anything.
so rock on master ensign – we afterall agree with all true republicans that it is what you appear to be saying that matters and not what you do so nor do. so continue telling us about the evils of gay marriage and how it is destroying the (other) marriage – for lord knows adultery never destroys marriage nor does it give it a bad name.
no – it all goes back to the gays with their bright colors and happy go lucky disposititions – in fact, i blame gay people for Ensigns current predicament – i dont know why nor have any proof but it just feels right to do so. in all though – Ensign must be conforted to know that he will not burn alone in hell for his hypocricy, an entire party is rooted in this – perhaps a heart to heart moment with the pre-eminent oracle of the party, newt gingrich, also a three time adulterer could soothe him back to life
June 16th, 2009 at 6:45 pmHmm, his wife lacks that usual GOPer-Stepford look…
June 16th, 2009 at 6:49 pmhttp://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Nov-06-Thu-2003/photos/4huf.jpg
Republicans are one hundred percent phony.
June 16th, 2009 at 6:49 pm….
this ensign thing has me all bummed out.
how about you am. pat.? johnm?
:(
June 16th, 2009 at 6:49 pm….
sam?
…
June 16th, 2009 at 6:51 pm… which is why the Senator favored the missionary position.
June 16th, 2009 at 6:52 pmWas this Ensign’s way of getting the free samples of the Viagra/Cialis/other blue E.D. pills out of his system?
June 16th, 2009 at 6:53 pm….
backup?
:(
June 16th, 2009 at 6:54 pmThis smells like hypocrisy and according to David Sheuster, hypocrisy is bad.
June 16th, 2009 at 6:55 pm“Love the way she moves
June 16th, 2009 at 6:56 pmLord, the temptation is great
Wiener wins again”
Banning gay marriage is not the way to ‘protect’ heterosexual marriage from hypocrites like you…
June 16th, 2009 at 6:56 pmralph the wonder locust Says:
Mr. Sonia Herecomestheangst Says:
For the Senator, the thong together with the woman’s lower back tattoo was just “a gift from God, but a call unto temptation” as they say.
So they had to pray together in the hotel bedroom to resolve this perplexing moral dilemma.
… which is why the Senator favored the missionary position.
Of course. Reading the Kama Sutra would go against everything that is Jesus and Pat Robertson!
June 16th, 2009 at 6:56 pmJust another repuglican hypocrite with his hand caught in the nookie jar…what else is new?
June 16th, 2009 at 6:56 pmLungman424 Says:
Just another repuglican hypocrite with his hand caught in the nookie jar…what else is new?
…
onion flavored trident.
:|
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June 16th, 2009 at 6:58 pmThis is why7 I am not a Conservative anymore. Progressives are never in the news for wrong doing. It is tough defending this. I go to class and when politics come up they just laugh at Republicans. I am glad I left that party and came over to the winning side. I am registering tomorrow as a Democrat and will soon have a blog inspired by Think Progress.
How does this name sound: The New Progressive?
June 16th, 2009 at 6:58 pm“I want to offer my deepest apology regarding the offensive nature of putting my little conservative in my colleague’s wife’s f-mail box.
“Again, I am deeply sorry and offer a sincere apology to anyone offended.”
June 16th, 2009 at 7:00 pmHonestly, who cares about this. The man was just getting some ass, what’s the problem with that?
June 16th, 2009 at 7:00 pmI see our fake-progressive troll has added some new moves to his repertoire. He now has a backstory, clumsy though it is.
Still not at all convincing, but it does add a touch of depth to a very shallow portrayal
June 16th, 2009 at 7:02 pmSam
This is why you are a stupid punkass troll. You are stupid, you are pathetic and you are an ignorant piece of filth. Just go shoot yourself. The world can do without your abject stupidity
June 16th, 2009 at 7:03 pmSam Says:
This is why7 I am not a Conservative anymore. Progressives are never in the news for wrong doing. It is tough defending this. I go to class and when politics come up they just laugh at Republicans. I am glad I left that party and came over to the winning side. I am registering tomorrow as a Democrat and will soon have a blog inspired by Think Progress.
How does this name sound: The New Progressive?
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that thing the senator’s wearing?
it’s called a “lei“.
:)
if they x-rayed your head “sam“,
that’s what they’d see.
:)
June 16th, 2009 at 7:03 pmThis man is a pervert and I love this story. Anything that makes Republicans look bad brings a smile to my face.
Posts 15, 16 and 25 was not me. My nic was jacked.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:03 pmThe affair staffer, of course is not named.
My guess is that it is someone named Cynthia Ely Hampton. Cynthia is married to Doug Hampton, who was (is?) Ensign’s Administrative Assistant (head of office).
I stumbled on The Hamptons a year or so ago when the Chris Ward NRCC embezzelment story broke. Cynthia was the “Assistant Treasurer” of the NRCC.
Comments on that connection here: http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/08/the-nrcc-meltdown-an-introduction/#comment-51598
and here: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/was_nrcc_staffer_cooking_the_b.php#comment-2590686
June 16th, 2009 at 7:04 pmPost 31 is not me. Its a nick jacker. It’s probably Mr P or one of his buddies.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:04 pmPlease flag 15, 16, 25 and 31 for nick jacking.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:05 pmBah hahahahahahaha! Ensign Big Mouth admits to having an affair today! Bah hahahahahahahahahaha! Oh gawd! Too much!!!! Bah hahahahahahahaha!!!! When will the hypocrisy stop?????!! Bah hahahahahahaha!
June 16th, 2009 at 7:05 pmThe night Ensign was on Chris Matthews screaming about the Senate Armed Service Committee Report on Torture being a Democrat Report…I was praying for him to make fast friends with comeuppance and failure…thanks God, prayer does work…
:|
June 16th, 2009 at 7:06 pmP For Progressive Says:
Honestly, who cares about this. The man was just getting some ass, what’s the problem with that?
June 16th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
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needs a question mark (?)
s/b “Honestly, who cares about this?”
:)
June 16th, 2009 at 7:06 pmKayInMaine,
June 16th, 2009 at 7:07 pmThis clown is toast and he deserves his fate. The GOP is the party of hypocritical values.
…
named jacked.
cool.
:)
June 16th, 2009 at 7:08 pmjoe cantwell Says:
KayInMaine,
This clown is toast and he deserves his fate. The GOP is the party of hypocritical values.
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cool.
:)
June 16th, 2009 at 7:09 pmP for Progressive wonders what the problem is with what Ensign did. Well, P, here are a few problems:
June 16th, 2009 at 7:09 pm1.) Ensign was sleeping with someone who worked for him! This is considered a supreme no-no in corporate circles.
2.) He was cuckolding someone else who worked for him!
3.) He was violating his marriage vows (”forsaking all others,” etc.), a sin against his wife and God (if he got married in a church, synagogue or temple, that is)!
4.) He was hypocritically doing what he excoriated Clinton for, and thought it was so bad, he called on Clinton to resign!
Obviously, Ensign should take his own advice and RESIGN. But yes, I know, IOKIYAR.
….
“toast”?
:|
June 16th, 2009 at 7:09 pmSam Says: “This is why I am not a Conservative anymore. Progressives are never in the news for wrong doing.” It is tough defending this. I go to class and when politics come up they just laugh at Republicans. I am glad I left that party and came over to the winning side. I am registering tomorrow as a Democrat and will soon have a blog inspired by Think Progress.
How does this name sound: The New Progressive?”
Oh my poor Sam!
Why would you want to join-up with Progressives when they were all so mean to you?
Perhaps it would help if you explained what being a progressive actually means–apart from just “winning” of course.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:10 pmNothing defines conservatives so much as their capacity for hypocrisy.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:10 pm…
and really,
what is “his fate”?
?
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June 16th, 2009 at 7:11 pmHey yo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 16th, 2009 at 7:11 pmI noticed that whomever protests the loudest about extramarital affairs (whether D or R), are usually the ones dabbing their pen in others ink.
I think, as a society, if we are truly concerned about the sanctity of marriage, we’d want to address the issue of infidelity.
Nahhhh, let’s go after some of dem monogamous homo saxuals!
June 16th, 2009 at 7:12 pmThems the reel problem.
/snark
Maybe we should leave Gitmo open. America needs a place to waterboard all these holier than thou, Republican, sexual hypocrites like Sen. John Ensign, Sen. Larry Craig, Sen. David Vitter, Bill O’Reilly, and Ted Haggard.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:14 pmwhat’s “nick jacking”?
Is that what adulterous Ensign was partaking in?
A little “nick jacking” on the side.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:14 pm5th Estate,
June 16th, 2009 at 7:15 pmProgressives stand for progress. They are for the future and are cool. Nobody my age is conservative. If you are one, you are viewed as an outcast. Being with the winning team is better than being with losers.
Can we kill this DOMA crap now?
June 16th, 2009 at 7:15 pmSam,
June 16th, 2009 at 7:17 pmRead up on what a progressive is.
Do not give in to peer pressure just because it’s not cool to be a conservative.
Sam Says:
5th Estate,
Progressives stand for progress. They are for the future and are cool. Nobody my age is conservative. If you are one, you are viewed as an outcast. Being with the winning team is better than being with losers.
:)
June 16th, 2009 at 7:17 pm54,
June 16th, 2009 at 7:19 pmStop the name jacking, it is really getting annoying.
Please flag 54.
What’s wrong with this?
June 16th, 2009 at 7:19 pmWHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS???
Geez, P, let’s say an elected official has something against Disney World. He calls it evil. He calls it an abomination for children everywhere. He is disgusted by it’s flagarant money whoring, which can seriously deplete a family of it’s income. He dispises Disney World. He thinks anyone spending their hard earned money at it’s gates is moronic and uneducated.
Then, photos surface of the elected official spending a week’s vacation not only in Orlando, but on site a Disney property.
Would that not be news?
joe cantwell Says:
Sam,
Read up on what a progressive is.
Do not give in to peer pressure just because it’s not cool to be a conservative.
:)
June 16th, 2009 at 7:19 pmAhhhhh, sweet schadenfreude.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:20 pm(((((HUGGING THE REAL JOE CANTWELL)))))
I feel your pain, man. I really do. Right now there’s a guy with 4 teeth in his head pretending to be me on the right blogs. Trust me on this. It never ends! LOL
June 16th, 2009 at 7:20 pmI think their capacity for self-hatred projected onto others, general greed, avarice and cruelty, criminality define conservative as well.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:21 pmEnsign must of gone to the school of Newt. It’s a degree you get through teh male. White, republican male.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:21 pmjoe cantwell Says:
54,
Stop the name jacking, it is really getting annoying.
Please flag 54.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:19 pm Recommend (0) | Report Abuse
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54?
:)
June 16th, 2009 at 7:22 pmAfter the disgusting line of reasoning put forth by the DOJ on behalf of DOMA last week, it should be killed…
:|
June 16th, 2009 at 7:22 pmto the “nick jacking” troll who apparently is jacking his nick:
We know the true joe cantwell.
His style is unique, humorus, intelligent, and fun to read.
Yours is not.
Too easy to distinguish.
Get a life.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:23 pm*
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:-)
KayInMaine,
June 16th, 2009 at 7:23 pmIt is really getting annoying but I’ll just ignore. It’s Mr P or one of his buddies.
It isn’t the moral frailty that bothers me. We all have shortcomings. It is the outright hypocrisy and dishonesty of these thugs that turns my stomach.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:23 pmKayInMaine Says:
(((((HUGGING THE REAL JOE CANTWELL)))))
I feel your pain, man. I really do. Right now there’s a guy with 4 teeth in his head pretending to be me on the right blogs. Trust me on this. It never ends! LOL
Hey hey. No extramarital affairs between you two.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:24 pmP For Progressive Says:
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Honestly, who cares about this. The man was just getting some ass, what’s the problem with that?
Getting some a$$ is not the problem. The problem is “good” Senator Ensign calling for the resignation of former President Clinton for having an affair while Ensign was doing the same thing. Comprende?
Then on top of that – the fool pretends to care about the sanctity of marriage while cheating on his wife with married woman. A married woman who is married to another man that worked for Ensign’s Senate Office!!!!
This shyte is like a soap opera!
June 16th, 2009 at 7:24 pmThe name-jacker is so f ucking stupid that he can’t even try to copy the real joe’s style. :-D
June 16th, 2009 at 7:25 pmDRxJ Says:
to the “nick jacking” troll who apparently is jacking his nick:
We know the true joe cantwell.
His style is unique, humorus, intelligent, and fun to read.
Yours is not.
Too easy to distinguish.
Get a life.
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and i’m not married to my cousin.
:)
June 16th, 2009 at 7:25 pmIf it was just a private opinion, then whatever, but their hypocrisy and dishonesty allows them to get elected and once elected they turn around and abuse the rest of us by making laws based on their hypocrisy and dishonesty…
June 16th, 2009 at 7:26 pm“There’s too many people that paint with a broad brush that we’re all corrupt, we’re all amoral. … And having these kinds of things happen, whether it’s a Republican or Democratic senator — we certainly have had plenty of Democratic scandals in the past — we need people who are in office who will hold themselves to a little higher standard.”
ahahahahahaha! This shyte is unbelievably funny! Priceless!
Now I’m waiting for all of those closet homosexuals, married to women, in the GOP to get “OUTED”!
June 16th, 2009 at 7:27 pmjoe cantwell Says:
KayInMaine,
It is really getting annoying but I’ll just ignore. It’s Mr P or one of his buddies.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:23 pm Recommend (0) | Report Abuse
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i don’t really mind it,
in fact it’s rather cool.
but cheating on your wife
with a married campaign worker?
not cool.
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:)
June 16th, 2009 at 7:27 pmReal joe:
Please don’t ignore it. Email the staff and choke off the smelly, creepy, sockpuppet factory.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:28 pmIf any cares to send Senator Ensign an email message asking him to resign, here is his address…
http://ensign.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Home.Home
June 16th, 2009 at 7:29 pmZooey Says:
The name-jacker is so f ucking stupid that he can’t even try to copy the real joe’s style. :-D
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and he doesn’t know about us, zoo.
:)
June 16th, 2009 at 7:30 pmThe 28th Amendment;
June 16th, 2009 at 7:31 pmA marriage is between one man, one woman, three mistresses, a couple of pages and the occasional public restroom encounter.
I believe that Ensign and his wife admit that they were separated when he was a complete dog. He didn’t lie under oath,father a child or steal money from his campaign fund to payoff his mistress.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:33 pmRepublican Senators are working hard to uphold the institution of heterosexual adultery…
June 16th, 2009 at 7:36 pmfrances Says:
I believe that Ensign and his wife admit that they were separated when he was a complete dog. He didn’t lie under oath,father a child or steal money from his campaign fund to payoff his mistress.
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but “he was a complete dog.”
i agree.
:|
sam,
do you people your age agree too?
:)
June 16th, 2009 at 7:37 pmto 79–No, he betrayed an employee, undermined someone else’s family, attacked the honest, truly felt relationships gay people had as an affront on marriage. The man is a saint!
June 16th, 2009 at 7:37 pmOh yeah. Sorry. *pushing skirt down*
June 16th, 2009 at 7:37 pmfrances says, “I believe that Ensign and his wife admit that they were separated when he was a complete dog.”
Somehow, I don’t think that being separated from his wife would give Senator Ensign the right to nail all of his co-worker’s wives.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:40 pm“You want to do what is ideal for children and all of the studies show that the ideal for children is to be in a household with a father and a mother.”
_________________________________________________________
“All” the studies? What studies? I have seen results of studies that show children generally do better in two-parent homes than in single-parent homes. And I say “generally” because of course there are exceptions. Many single parents do a great job.
But I haven’t seen any studies to show that children are better off with two parents of different sexes than with two parents of the same sex. In fact, gay couples are quite dedicated when it comes to parenting. Very few accidental pregnancies occur with gay couples, and they have to go through quite a bit to have children. When you have to work that hard to have a child, it’s usually because you really want one and you want to do right by him/her.
But this is a typical wingnut tactic. It falls in the same category as “they say” — suggesting there’s an understood consensus somewhere even though none exists.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:40 pmSam…
Thanks for replying.
FYI Progressives also stand for the National Anthem.
And they are indeed for the future, which is why so many of them always want the latest I-phone.
But it’s hard to be against the future, because you’ll never be able to meet up with someone ‘later’, because that would be in the future so it won;t work if you aren’t for the future. Perhaps THAT was one of your problems as a Conservative.
And progressives have always been cool of course, even during the last eight years when your Conservative buddies called us all traitors and Un-American and baby-killers and Fascists and perverts–which they still do of course, but they keep leaving out the fact that we are also now “winners”.
So bear in mind, as a newly minted “progressive” you still won’t be immune from people being mean to you.
But as long as you are on the “winning team” from now on, that shouldn’t effect you as much, because really “winning” is ALL that matters, right? Not being correct, or moral, or generous in spirit or honest or practical, or considerate, or circumspect–just “winning”, whatever it is. Just as long as YOU get a trophy!.
Well , anyway, now that you are a ‘progressive” I’m sure your social life will improve greatly. It will be just like one of those Disney teen moves where the weird outcast chick suddenly gets her hair done and a miniskirt and becomes the prom queen.
One word of advice.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:41 pmExpressing yourself like a six-year-old when you are apparently 23 MIGHT be a bit of an obstacle to your socio-political plans. Work on that.
Sooooo, Ensign thinks marriage should be between a man, a woman, and a good friend’s wife?
June 16th, 2009 at 7:42 pmLet’s see, who was that other guy calling for Clinton to step down over the affair while he was himself having one….?
Lizard…nope….Toady….nope….Snake….nope…what was that slimy little lizards name?
NEWT, that’s it NEWT.
Now he can join the ranks of NEWT, the slimy little lizard.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:42 pmWas he having the affair with the man or woman? Since he called for Larry Craig to resign but not David Vitter I’m thinking he just might have been doing it with the man.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:42 pmMy gaydar is about as unreliable as anyone else’s but I could swear that Ensign is gay.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:42 pmCould care less about the goppers sex life and give it a big eeeeeewwwwwwwwww.
But this IS so classic of the out of control hypocrisy possessed by most, if not all, GOP members.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:42 pmJust wait until Letterman gets ahold of this.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:46 pmSince Ensign is a DVM I wonder if he liked doing it doggy style, which again makes me think he was having a gay affair.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:46 pmdelafield,
Never said it gave him a right to do anything. They were both in it together. Dem/Repub- they both cheat evenly. That is why this is not a news story. The point is that he was separated, did not lie under oath, did not steal money from his campaign fund to payoff mistress, did not cheat while his wife was suffering from cancer and did not father a child. His hair is his real crime!
June 16th, 2009 at 7:47 pmpastcaring Says:
After the disgusting line of reasoning put forth by the DOJ on behalf of DOMA last week, it should be killed…
1. The DoJ has to enforce the law.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:47 pm2. The law (in this instance) sucks ass.
3. Call your Congressperson (1, 2)
frances Says: I believe that Ensign and his wife admit that they were separated when he was a complete dog…
juuuuuust guessing that one doesn’t become a complete dog after separation; more often, it’s the cause, not the result.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:49 pmDavidhart,
Does it matter if he’s gay?
June 16th, 2009 at 7:49 pmThe Republicans built this glass house. You think anyone would care about a Congressman cheating on his wife, if they hadn’t made it an issue?
June 16th, 2009 at 7:50 pmpatty,
Your right. Cheating on your wife makes you a dog! Everytime.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:50 pm# 89 Pachydiplax de St. Augustine Says:
Jeez, you’ve become SO cynical! :D
June 16th, 2009 at 7:51 pmwiley,
TP is making it an issue today.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:51 pmfrances Says:
Davidhart,
Does it matter if he’s gay?
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no but he is “a complete dog.”
we’ll have to wait on the stealing part.
and it is BIG news.
:)
BIG!
:|
June 16th, 2009 at 7:53 pmfrances Says:
wiley,
TP is making it an issue today.
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how many times have you posted
on this issue so far? i’ve lost track.
???
:)
June 16th, 2009 at 7:55 pmjoe,
I wouldn’t begin to guess how BIG his news was.
:/
June 16th, 2009 at 7:56 pm5th Estate Says:
June 16th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
This one calls for the rarely bestowed LOL.
Well done, 5th!
June 16th, 2009 at 7:56 pmwiley,
I know you’re right. I’m still stuck on his hairdo.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:56 pmWhat i find funny about this is that when a republican does it it is the biggest thing to come around and yet when a democrat does it there is nothing wrong with it. Talk about double standards. And yes there are a lot of democrats that scream what i am reading on here today.
June 16th, 2009 at 7:57 pmJust like the Palin thing. You never hear a republican going after a democrats kids but boy the liberals don’t have a problem with it.
frances Says:
joe,
I wouldn’t begin to guess how BIG his news was.
:/
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y knot?
:|
June 16th, 2009 at 7:58 pmjoe,
Can’t get passed his hairdo!
:O
June 16th, 2009 at 7:58 pm***
frances,
he use to part it down the middle.
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June 16th, 2009 at 8:02 pmIt would appear from the comment at 7:57 p.m. that someone has neglected to keep up with the news.
Briefly:
1) the Republicans have long presented themselves as the lone party of upholding family values.
2) when reality shows they have behaved horribly, they conveniently forget, then deny, the reality (for ex., the joke about Chelsea Clinton/Janet Reno springs to mind — or, more recently, the forwarded email with the composite presidential photo).
Clearly, no one is perfect. For that reason, no one — and no party — ought to present himself/herself/itself as such.
The more self-inflated they are, the more they fly around the room when popped.
Outlaw284 Says:
What i find funny about this is that when a republican does it it is the biggest thing to come around and yet when a democrat does it there is nothing wrong with it. Talk about double standards. And yes there are a lot of democrats that scream what i am reading on here today.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:02 pmJust like the Palin thing. You never hear a republican going after a democrats kids but boy the liberals don’t have a problem with it.
Two problems, stupid troll.
1. Edwards doesn’t hold any office.
2. Edwards never tried to legislate morality, to the best of my knowledge, or pimp “family values” to con the rubes into thinking he’s some kind of saint.
Ensign, on the other hand, has been a vocal proponent for infringing the rights of people who don’t follow his professed moral code. If one can’t see the difference? One is too stupid to argue with.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:04 pmpete Says:
Two problems, stupid troll.
1. Edwards doesn’t hold any office.
2. Edwards never tried to legislate morality, to the best of my knowledge, or pimp “family values” to con the rubes into thinking he’s some kind of saint.
Ensign, on the other hand, has been a vocal proponent for infringing the rights of people who don’t follow his professed moral code. If one can’t see the difference? One is too stupid to argue with.
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and he’s “a complete dog.”
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republicans…
will they ever win?
:)
June 16th, 2009 at 8:06 pmWhy all the ecitement here – Ensign is a Rebublican and that says it ALL! Each and every single one is a bigot – just when I hear their mumbling Of God this and God that moral value and family value – my stomack hurts my brain freezes – any discussion of those people is in vain, senseless stupid and a waste of time – any word I like to use that fits their character would be read as an insult, so sorry I must stop …
June 16th, 2009 at 8:07 pmMore important as the Rebulican bigot-professionals is the talk of the town: Democrat-weasels thathave the audicity to moan about the 10 year pricetag for a healthcare proposal that will help people, at the same time they don’t have a problem to sign off on >100 billion $$ for a military spending bill that ONLY will hurt everyone including the pockets of us, the taxpayer –
Stop those blue-pudels in their track before it is too late – they are the real disgrace I’m upset about, not a sex-greedy Republican liar!
pete Says:
Two problems, stupid troll.
1. Edwards doesn’t hold any office.
2. Edwards never tried to legislate morality, to the best of my knowledge, or pimp “family values” to con the rubes into thinking he’s some kind of saint. . . .
And, pete, as I recall, progressives everywhere were furious with Edwards for his behavior. I don’t remember anyone posting messages or appearing on TV with excuses for the former senator’s ridiculously stupid, wrong, insensitive behavior.
Thus, one more difference between the two groups.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:08 pmJoe,
I like the color better in that picture.
Pete,
He tried to and he did pretend to be happily married and honest and diss Clinton time after time. He lied about having a baby with his mistriss and is under investigation for paying her off with campaign funds. But both have really awful hair.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:08 pmfrances says, “Never said it gave him a right to do anything. They were both in it together. Dem/Repub- they both cheat evenly.”
Francis, I think the cheating ratio is more like seven holier than thou Republicans to every one Democrat.
And when it comes to hypocrisy, nothing compares to the number of chickenhawk Republicans who cheerlead for war but run away when they’re asked to serve. Bush, Cheney, Limbaugh, and Reagan are just a few.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:08 pm…
walhalla,
would you like to be sheriff?
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June 16th, 2009 at 8:09 pmThis sort of thing just happens from time to time. We could keep score like it’s a ballgame, or we could just chill on it and leave their private matters alone. Of course we know how the R’s play it, so we gotta point and laugh also.
But there’s only one real sin in America – hypocrisy. Don’t do something you picked on somebody else for doing and you’ll do fine. R’s will never understand this, because they can’t resist wagging fingers at other people.
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Outlaw284 Says:
What i find funny about this is that when a republican does it it is the biggest thing to come around and yet when a democrat does it there is nothing wrong with it. Talk about double standards.
ORLY? Articles of impeachment much?
June 16th, 2009 at 8:10 pmWhy were progressives furious with Edwards behavior?
June 16th, 2009 at 8:10 pmAdditional quotes from Ensign in 2004:
http://marriagelaw.cua.edu/Policy/TestimonySenate/ensi071304.cfm
Mr. ENSIGN. Mr. President, I rise today to speak on a topic that is very important. That is the preservation of the most important structure in our society. I rise to speak on the topic of marriage and the need for the Federal Marriage Amendment.
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All words have meaning. The word marriage has meaning deep rooted in our culture. There are certain words that have such an important meaning that they invoke strong emotions within each of us. For me, marriage is one such word. The word marriage represents an institution with historically universal understanding. Its meaning is one that has been constant throughout time and across all cultures. I can think of no other word, and no other institution, that enjoys such a special status with such an important meaning.
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For those who say that the Constitution is so sacred that we cannot or should not adopt the Federal Marriage Amendment, I would simply make two points. First, marriage, and the sanctity of that institution, predates the American Constitution. It predates the founding of our Nation and even the landing at Plymouth Rock. Marriage, as a social institution, predates every other institution on which ordered society in America, and the world as a whole, has relied including even the church itself. Second, the Founding Fathers envisioned the possibility that future generations may need to amend the Constitution.
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June 16th, 2009 at 8:11 pmIt is with concern that I have read about how a few unelected judges and some locally elected government officials have taken steps to redefine marriage to fit their own agenda. 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 that marriage has played in our history.
Guido the Benevolent Torturer Says:
I predict a tear-filled coming-to-Jesus is in Ensign’s future. With his wife at his side.
The wife-standing-by-you while you confess everything Kabuki moment is the most (aesthetically) disgusting thing the Conservative movement has ever produced.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:12 pmdelefield,
It’s Frances with and e. So you are the official cheating score keeper? Good for you. I’m sure it keeps you busy.
I’m still stuck on Ensign’s hair
June 16th, 2009 at 8:14 pmHi 5th Estate:
I agree with your comment, however my cynicism is cyclical and this too will pass.
I haven’t had a haircut since January (sins of my old age wanting a ponytail to look like a pirate) combined with a 110 degree heat index has fried my brain today. Will take my neighbors advice and go soak my head while thinking about being a bald pirate! :)
June 16th, 2009 at 8:15 pmExtra marital means extra marriage, libs. We must protect marriage and lots of it.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:17 pmSenator Ensign has always been a ladies man. He just loved my blonde bombshell Darcy when we met in 2000.
Come and see for yourself. Photos don’t lie. http://landofpuregold.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/senator-ensign-has-always-been-a-ladies-man/
June 16th, 2009 at 8:18 pmRepublican and hypocrisy, two words one meaning.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:20 pmfrances
Ensign. 2012. Game. Over. Another Repub bites the dust.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:20 pmWiz Says:
Republican and hypocrisy, two words one meaning.
And, along that same line:
“Republican hypocrisy” — redundancy
June 16th, 2009 at 8:21 pmWhat i find funny about this is that when a Democrat is discovered to have had an affair then Republicans demand he be booted from office and its the biggest thing to come around ( Clinton, McGreevey, Spitzer, Edwards) yet when a Republican does it (Thurmond, Vitter, Craig, Gingrich) he’s never called to resign, and of course if a Republican solicits underage boys for sex, but is SINGLE, well there is nothing wrong with it. Talk about double standards!
Just like the Palin thing. You never hear a republican going after a democrats kids (apart from Chelsea Clinton, or that kid in the SCHIP ad) but boy the liberals don’t have a problem with it—when the kid in question (Bristol) campaigns on her own volition for abstinence and the sanctimonious demonization of sex outside of marriage and sex-education whilst she herself is an unwed mother (living off her mother’s state-salary).
June 16th, 2009 at 8:21 pmWhat goes around comes around! KARMA! If Ensign would’ve practiced what he preached regarding the sanctity of marriage – his affair wouldn’t be getting as much attention.
I’m sure he wishes he’d had a hot cup of STFU when he called for Clinton’s resignation! HA!
GOPers need to stop trying to run people’s lives and mind their own GD business!
June 16th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
June 16th, 2009 at 8:22 pmBah hahahahahaha hahahahaha hahahaha *cough hack* bah hahahahahahahaha!
Was the back bacon wrapped in a “respectable Republican cloth”?
June 16th, 2009 at 8:22 pm5th Estate Says:
Yes indeed!
June 16th, 2009 at 8:22 pmMegaloptera McWars Says:
frances
Ensign. 2012. Game. Over. Another Repub bites the dust.
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and he won’t be the last.
:)
June 16th, 2009 at 8:22 pm5th Estate Says:
What i find funny about this. . .
Priceless! Wish I could’ve hit “Recommend” multiple times.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:25 pm5th Estate Says:
Just like the Palin thing. You never hear a republican going after a democrats kids (apart from Chelsea Clinton, or that kid in the SCHIP ad)
Also Amy Carter.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:26 pmPachydiplax de St. Augustine @125
I’ve heard that bald pirating is the best kind, and a guaranteed cure for cynicism ( and also the heartbreak of seborrheaic dermatitis! )
June 16th, 2009 at 8:27 pm…
not a word from am. pat.
or johnm…
what up with them?
???
June 16th, 2009 at 8:27 pmHypocrite, heal thyself.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:31 pm…
also what’s with the
“black power” salute?
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June 16th, 2009 at 8:31 pmElBruce Says: Also Amy Carter.
And what about John McCain’s adopted daughter when he was competing with Bush for the 2000 candidacy? That was that Democrat Karl Rove’s slimy work!
Rove is a Democrat right? ‘Cos I see him on the Tee Vee all the time and we all know the Tee Vee Media is liberal right?
June 16th, 2009 at 8:33 pmThese people, gwad damn it, hide behind the sacrament of marriage and use the sacrament of marriage to deny some from getting married…. all this while they trash it.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:34 pmAgreed…but as the article I linked to pointed out, the DOJ does not have to liken gay marriage to incest or marrying children or to justify it by saying that it saves the govt. money…that’s not really enforcing the law, that’s twisting the knife…
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Back on topic; It appears Ensign ‘came out’ with this because there have been attempted blackmail by the other woman’s husband:
June 16th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Patty
For a second there, didn’t you think I was another troll? At the beginning? :D
Glad you liked it. I’m not here to rack up recommends,but I take em when I can get em. Thanks for your kind praise. Cheers!
June 16th, 2009 at 8:37 pmEnsign made his affair public to save himself some money. Apparently, hubby requested a large sum to keep the escapade Johnny had with his wife undisclosed.
I’m disappointed Johnny robbed us of a lifetime of his wonderful family values preaching just to save a few bucks.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:39 pmpastcaring already got that in. sorry for the repetition, past.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:40 pmIt’s the threat of gays getting married that got to him. That’s what caused his indiscretion. The guy gave the standard apology to his wife, children, party, etc. But he didn’t apologize to the woman he was boffing or her husband. I wonder why not.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:41 pmTP isn’t making an issue out of the man cheating on his wife. The issue is that this man who has proclaimed men who cheat on their wives unfit to govern, has been caught cheating on his wife. The issue is the hypocrisy of the Republican party. That should be obvious.
If trolls ever said anything relevant and thoughtful, I might take their side once in a while.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:43 pmNo prob….sometimes our fingers can’t move as fast as we wish…
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June 16th, 2009 at 8:45 pmThe gay people made him do it.
The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com
June 16th, 2009 at 8:47 pmIf the frenzied religious right and the proven hypocrites of party of NO are so concerned of the sacrement of marriage, then why not let gays get married… as they may do a better job at it.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:48 pmThere is a Republican mentality. I am not sure what it is, but it proves to be disgusting. The Christian Right has empowered the Republican with and exempted status. The rest of us have to toe the line they define.
I guess you call this Newt’s “altered reality”.
June 16th, 2009 at 9:00 pmHe’s just another Newt. The ones that scream the loudest about the “affairs” of others are the ones that are usually among the worst offenders themselves.
But this is just another day in the land of the Family Values Republicans.
June 16th, 2009 at 9:06 pmThe current leaders of the Republican Party (Newt and Rush) have had multiple marriages/affairs and never say “I was wrong”.
He is just living up to the new Republican Standard….
June 16th, 2009 at 9:10 pmCaption: Knock three times on the stall wall if you want me.,,
June 16th, 2009 at 9:27 pmpastcaring Says:
Agreed…but as the article I linked to pointed out, the DOJ does not have to liken gay marriage to incest or marrying children or to justify it by saying that it saves the govt. money…that’s not really enforcing the law, that’s twisting the knife…
You know, I went to the article you linked to, and actually read the parts they quoted where they were saying that Holder was trying to make gay marriage sound ebil… and these were perfectly valid legal concerns. Under the section titled “Holy Cow. Obama invoked incest and people marrying children” was a description of varying definitions of incest regarding first cousins between states as well as varying ages of consent between states. As it turns out, states don’t have to use each others’ definitions or ages of consent. That’s relevant to the “full faith and credit” issue, particularly where marriage is concerned.
I didn’t bother to go on to the “saves money” part, because the parts that article quoted had convinced me it was trying to misrepresent them. It failed.
June 16th, 2009 at 9:29 pmJeff Gannon can keep a secret Ensign,,,just saying.
June 16th, 2009 at 9:36 pmXisithrus Says:
Jeff Gannon can keep a secret Ensign,,,just saying.
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x,
jeff gannon is a hero,
a cock sucking, right wing hero!
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and don’t you forget it.
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June 16th, 2009 at 10:30 pmWIRETAPS?
I can’t help but wonder if these GOP misfits are kept on the party line because the Bush administration compiled dirt on them using wiretaps, and then blackmailed them, thus keeping them in line.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:05 pmOOOoooooOOoooh!!!! I love the smell of Repuke hypocrisy in the mornin—er, evening!!
STINKY
June 16th, 2009 at 11:09 pmSTINKY
STINKY!!
I have never encountered such a hateful, spiteful, mean-spirited bunch as the regulars on this blog. Your reveling in the personal travails of another human being and an outstanding public servant is truly disgusting.
Moral failure is not a Republican or Democratic trait; it is a HUMAN trait. Ensign has confessed and asked for understanding and forgiveness. What more can he do? Perhaps he could apologize to others who have similarly fallen that he previously grandstanded against. But those of you that are screaming for his head are just as hypocritical.
If all the sinners in Washington resigned, it would be a ghost town. There is also plenty of hypocrisy to go around. But, our leaders should stand for principles they believe in, and that are best for our country, even if they themselves fall short. Ensigns defense of marriage is not invalidated by his own moral failure. Indeed, his wife has attested that this deeply hurtful experience has made them stronger. As one who has been married for 32 years, with my own failures and disappointments, I have great empathy for them. For that matter, I have the same empathy for John and Elizabeth Edwards. At times like this, I would expect mature and “progressive” people to demonstrate grace and avoid judgementalism. This should not be a partisan issue.
June 16th, 2009 at 11:30 pmSo sorry we have disappointed you, and that you will no longer be gracing us with your presence. It is truly a loss for all concerned.
Absolutely.
Unfortunately, conservatives like Senator Ensign seem to consider moral failure in others to be signs of their own moral superiority. They show remarkably little capacity for sympathy and even strive to make “empathy” a dirty word.
I think if you were to hang around here with any kind of open mind, you’d find the regulars are remarkably sympathetic people, but have little tolerance for the kind of hypocrisy that Senator Ensign has exhibited — hypocrisy that is all too common among politicians of all stripes.
In short, Phillip, it’s not the moral failing we celebrate; it’s the exposure of hypocrisy.
June 17th, 2009 at 12:17 amAs far as the Senator’s support for the “defense of marriage” we find his position so absurd — that marriage needs “defending” from people who WANT to get married — that when a real threat to marriage rears its ugly head, it makes the fake “defense of marriage” even more ridiculous.
I’ve been married for twelve years, and a gay couple getting married has no impact whatsoever on my marriage. How about yours?
June 17th, 2009 at 12:22 amJune 17th, 2009 at 12:25 am
Yet another Goddamned Republican sex scandal. Only get a load of the religious organization to which John Ensign belongs.
June 17th, 2009 at 1:07 amNo doubt that the threat of “Same sex Marraige” is what caused Ensign this failure in his traditional marraige.
Of course Ensign will not take the same advice he gave publically to then President Clinton. Nah, no way.
Don’t you just love forgiving these intolerant misbehaving religious zealots that want you and me to lay our rugs to Mecca and pray under the perview of the secret religious police to ensure we do?
June 17th, 2009 at 1:25 amYour missig the point, he made a political career of doing just what you accuse us here, who ARE NOT elected reps.
June 17th, 2009 at 1:30 amEnsign is a humanm thats true, he has human desires, thats true as well, and hes knows, I think, that humans have desires and uses others desires to his political advantage….until now.
June 17th, 2009 at 1:32 amPhilip50 Says
Well Phillup I see you are still ignorant and astonishignly stupid. If he had kept HIS mouth shut when others were in a similar plight it might mean something but he is a hypocrite. Like YOU only not quite so stupid. People in glass houses ought not to throw stones or they might find THEIR windows broken. I have never seen such an ignorant group of hypocritical morons as you rightwing trolls. What a punk you are.
June 17th, 2009 at 1:37 amI have read all of the comments. I have to say to myself that there is a great deal of the commenters are commenting on each other. The comments should be aimed at Senator Ensign. Here is a individual that should be held to his own words and judged by all Americans. As a resident of Nevada, I am for him stepping down from the Senate. As my grandparents taught me be careful with your actions some day you may have to eat your words. Now is the time for Senator Ensign to enjoy the bitter sweet taste of his own action. As to the statment that was a seperation between you and your wife still does not make it okay for you to lack the maturely and put another marriage in the shiter. PLEASE STEP DOWN FROM THE SENATE.
June 17th, 2009 at 1:52 amWho the hell are you, kat? Why do wingnuts always introduce themselves by telling us what we’re supposed to talk about, and how we’re supposed to talk about it. Get bent.
June 17th, 2009 at 2:04 am…
conservatives have problems with women:
“Christian politicians and evangelical leaders commonly follow an unspoken rule not to meet behind closed doors with women staff members or travel alone with them. The Rev. Billy Graham, for example, has famously refused to be alone in a room with any woman except his wife since he married her in the 1940s.
Rep. Steve Largent (R-Okla.), a Christian conservative, insists a male staff member is present whenever he meets with a woman, his spokesman said. John Ensign, who is running for senate in Nevada will not be alone in a car with a woman”
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from wapo by way of tpm.
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June 17th, 2009 at 2:15 amjurassicpork Says:
Yet another Goddamned Republican sex scandal. Only get a load of the religious organization to which John Ensign belongs.
June 17th, 2009 at 1:07 am
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omg he’s a “promise keeper”.
i thought those jerks were extinct.
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June 17th, 2009 at 2:18 amPhilip50 Says:
I have never encountered such a hateful, spiteful, mean-spirited bunch as the regulars on this blog.
Fcuk off and die.
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Philip50 Says:
Your reveling in the personal travails of another human being and an outstanding public servant is truly disgusting.
Good thing we ain’t special prosecutors, huh? Or members of Congress, for that matter.
June 17th, 2009 at 2:34 amWithout diminishing Sen. Ensign’s responsibility, a repressive, organized, sanctimonious group devoted to legislating morality such as the Promise Keepers is a virtual petri dish for the very behavior it seeks to suppress. This is a textbook case. Instead of driving out their demons and those they perceive in others they succeed only in nurturing their own.
June 17th, 2009 at 2:48 am“FLASHBACK: Ensign Called On Clinton To Resign After Admitting Affair — ‘He Has No Credibility Left’”
lol Love those family values lawmakers and in Sin City of all places. lol
June 17th, 2009 at 2:54 amApprently, the real story is to establish Ensign as a practicing hetero, even though his narriage between one man and one woman has clearly failed. Clinton did something that no Republican President ever did: have sex in office. (and Ensign wants a crack at that brass ring, too!)
June 17th, 2009 at 3:47 amI say “stone the adulterer.”
June 17th, 2009 at 7:52 amJust more typical Conservative B.S. Is this really shocking to any of you? All the Conservatives do is throw stones from their shiny glass houses… Just an entire lot of adulterers, closet homosexuals, and hypocrites “fightining” adultery, homosexuality, and hypocrisy. I hope he breaks his neck from the fall off of his moral high horse.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:35 amThe FIX(GOP)-TV Newtork could create a new “reality” show. Its name would be “Bowling for Concubines.” Some of its contestants might include: John Ensign, Larry Craig, Newt Gingrich, David Vitter, Rudy Giuliani, Jimmy Swaggart, Harry Hyde, Dan Burton, Kirk Fordice, etc.
The show would last one year. At the end of the season they could have playoffs. The ultimate winner of that tournament would win the services of a prostitute for a whole year.
In addition, he would get a gold-plated cross. It doesn’t matter who the champ is because all of the contestants are pristine Christians.
And to present that award, no one other than……Carrie Prejean.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:44 amI made a mistake. I typed in “Harry Hyde.” I meant to type “Henry Hyde.”
June 17th, 2009 at 8:55 amSince his election to the Senate in 2000, Ensign has been a leading conservative voice who demanded the resignation of former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig in September 2007. Ensign called Craig a “disgrace” after he was arrested in June 2007 in an airport men’s restroom on disorderly conduct charges. But when Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) acknowledged having an affair, Ensign didn’t call on him to resign. Ensign has also been an ardent opponent of gay marriage. In Feb. 2004, Ensign announced his support for an amendment to the Constitution that would have defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Ensign said the amendment, which ultimately failed, was necessary to protect “the institution of marriage”…In 1998, while running for Nevada’s Senate seat against Harry Reid, Ensign called on President Clinton to resign in light of his admitted affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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As before…
(To be sung to the tune from the chorus of “Bingo”…)
I-O-K-I-F-Y-A-R…
I-O-K-I-F-Y-A-R…
I-O-K-I-F-Y-A-R…
It’s O-Kay If You’re A Re-Pub-Li-Can!!!!
(Provided that your partner is of the opposite sex, that is…)
*Sigh*…yet another hypocritical, self-righteous, adulterous Republican who apparently saw nothing wrong with doing the very same thing which he’d condemned other people for doing — or at least, certainly didn’t see it as wrong enough to stop himself from doing it! — and who considered himself entitled to lecture other people about the behavior which he believes damages the “sanctity of marriage” (even when it doesn’t) even while engaging in behavior which suggests indifference or nonchalance regarding the damage he was inflicting on his own marriage. (The dates of his own infidelity, however, probably explain why he kept quiet about Vitter…guilty conscience, perhaps?)
Someone should remind him of what they say about pointing your finger at someone — namely, that you still have three fingers pointing back at you! When one considers the way in which most people — Democrats and Republicans alike — seem inclined to criticize others for actions of which they themselves have been/are guilty, or when they are guilty of other equally reprehensible deeds, it becomes clear just how true this statement is…
June 17th, 2009 at 9:25 amThe wheel of irony keeps on rolling. It appears the biggest threat to marriage these days are those family values preaching republikins like Henry Hyde, Rudy Ghouliani, Newt Gingrich and Diaper David Vitter.
June 17th, 2009 at 9:28 am…and John Ensign….
June 17th, 2009 at 9:28 amJohn Ensign is a veterinarian. Is “Neuter and Spay the Only Way”?
See:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/john-ensign-promise-keeper/
June 17th, 2009 at 9:48 ampete Says:
Two problems, stupid troll.
1. Edwards doesn’t hold any office.
2. Edwards never tried to legislate morality, to the best of my knowledge, or pimp “family values” to con the rubes into thinking he’s some kind of saint.
To bad the stupid troll is pete.
Elizabeth Edwards “It’s not the infidelity. It’s his reckless decision to go forward with a presidential race after confessing a fling to his cancer-stricken wife, knowing it was much more than that. Even worse was his willingness to feature his wife in a campaign based on family values, even as he lied about the affair on the campaign trail.”
June 17th, 2009 at 10:40 amSo i guess that Edwards did do the same thing that Ensign did. Next time try to inform yourself before you open your black hole.
Liberals love to try and bash conservatives about this and that and yet when their own guys do the same thing or worse they have no problems with it. And you people are talking about hypocrisy. Please the hipocrites are the ones in this blog. From what i have read most of the people in this blog do nothing but read what the media puts out and doesn’t even bother trying to do any research. That is apperant from the responces that you get from some of the people in here. You can tell just how much a person knows with the comments that they make. And I have found that when you talk to some people and say things they don’t like or can’t dispute than they call you names.
It doesn’t matter weather he is a democrat or a republican he lied just like clinton, edwards, mccain, and the rest of them. Is anyone going to ask him to resign? NO Is anyone in here going to ask a democrat to resign if they do something just as bad? NO I didn’t hear anyone telling Edwards that he needed to quit the campaign because of his cheating and he was doing the same thing. Talking about family values.
I don’t think that Ensign’s affair had any impact on his being able to do his job. However, that said, the hypocrisy is staggering. But unsurprising.
Since the Republicans have staked out the “moral high ground” … How many of them have fallen into the pit? How much further a fall is it when you hoist yourself up onto that pedestal?
June 17th, 2009 at 12:58 pmWorst hypercrit . SICKENING IDIOT!!! “Monkey see Monkey do”
We are all human afterall. NO EXCUSE !!!!!!
KAN
June 17th, 2009 at 1:32 pmMany of you Theo-publicans believe that if the House, Senate, and President Obama could just shred the Constitution and supplant it with the Holy Bible, the US would become an instant Utopia.
There would be no more: abortion, death penalty, drug usage/gangs, racism, homosexuality, foul language, financial corruption, rape/incest, poverty, disease, famine, natural disasters, war, nor ADULTERY.
Unfortunately, Puratinism doesn’t necessarily reward people who live a “Christian” lifestyle. It benefits people who APPEAR to live a Christian lifestlye.
In this arrangement, when wealthy and connected people “screw up” they can buy-off, intimidate, dig up privileged medical, financial, and legal info. or use many other means to keep the situation silent.
June 17th, 2009 at 2:42 pmAs Freddy Mercury himself said,”Another one bites the dust!”
June 17th, 2009 at 8:15 pmAnyone offering a different opinion on here, no matter how respectfully offered, is cussed out and called everything but righteous. So much for progressive thought and tolerance.
This largely a hate site, plain and simple. The aspersions made about Christians or people of faith shows the utter closed-mindedness and intolerance of so many people who consider themselves “liberal” and “progressive”. You are anything but.
I find particularly revolting the false insinuations that Christians or conservatives want to force their values on others. It is largely Christians and people of faith that formulated our Constitution and Bill of Rights that guarantee the rights of all our citizens, both believers and non-believers alike. Do Christians want to promote principles that they stand for? Of course. So do all of you. This is America. We can agree to disagree. But, the aspersions made by many of you about a huge plurality of loyal Americans is despicable and false.
Christians (who come in many different stripes) do not have to be perfect themselves to promote Christian or otherwise sound principles. We should all aspire to higher standards than we ourselves have been able to always attain. We should not make, or only support, laws that would not indict the worst behavior of our best citizens. No, our laws, and not only our laws, but our public discourse should encourage civil, positive, safe, respectful behavior, even though many of us…no, make that ALL of us…fall short.
So all of you that love to point out Ensign’s hypocrisies on here, stop being hypocritical yourself and start treating him…well…like he were a liberal Democrat. Then you would be less hypocritical yourselves, and I will respect you and your opinions more. (Not that I believe many of you care one iota!).
June 17th, 2009 at 11:19 pmQuestion? If he really doesn’t have any creditability left will obammie give him a place in his cabinet or will he become the demoncrap’s poster boy for 2012 when the second peanut farmer goes down?
June 18th, 2009 at 8:44 pmWell put Philip50
June 19th, 2009 at 6:28 pmlibertylover said: “I don’t think that Ensign’s affair had any impact on his being able to do his job.”
The key phrase you use is “I don’t think.” That’s pretty clear.
Just for a start, a senator who is having an adulterous affair that he wants kept quiet is open to blackmail by lobbyists.
From 2007 to August 2008 Ensign’s focus was not on his job as senator but on managing his affair and finding new employment for his paramour and her husband.
The hypocritical Ensign quotes I have seen here and there are prior to the time of the affair in question. Here is a link to a youtube clip from April 13, 2007, in which Ensign held himself up as a paragon of virtue, someone who was quite the opposite of those nasty Democrats.
June 20th, 2009 at 10:57 amGo look at Ensign’s voting record.
Regardless of whether he was faithful to his wife or not, the guy is a shill for corporate interests.
He not only votes against funding for education but votes against closing corporate loopholes and using the additional revenue to support education.
http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/john_ensign.htm
June 20th, 2009 at 11:01 amSorry … I thought I pasted in the youtube link.
Here it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlUQTetdAwQ
June 20th, 2009 at 11:03 amThank you..
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