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Even America’s Heroine™ has been hit by the recession! Sarah Palin has posted her resume to LinkedIn, prominently featuring her “2 years 7 months” experience as Governor of Alaska. If anyone has any folksy small-town snow machine moose-hunter maverick positions available, check out her profile! (LinkedIn)I think, quite frankly, character is displayed in a variety of different ways.
– Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), who achieved national infamy for having sex with prostitutes.
In contrast to the kind of luvfest David Vitter is used to, this trip was legal, public and no money changed hands.
– Louisiana Democratic Party spokesman Kevin Franck, responding to Sen. David Vitter’s attacks on possible challenger Rep. Charlie Melancon.
David Brooks knows but he isn’t telling:
BROOKS: You know, all three of us spend a lot of time covering politicians and I don’t know about you guys, but in my view, they’re all emotional freaks of one sort or another. They’re guaranteed to invade your personal space, touch you. I sat next to a Republican senator once at dinner and he had his hand on my inner thigh the whole time. I was like, ehh, get me out of here.
HARWOOD: What?
BROOKS: I can only imagine what happens to you guys.
O’DONNELL: Sorry, who was that?
BROOKS: I’m not telling you, I’m not telling you.
Whaaaat? David Brooks, you are such a tease! We know it’s not John Ensign or David Vitter because they go out of their way to fuck ladies, even ladies they are not married to. Stop being a jerk and just tell us who the gropesaurus is, already!
As far as political affairs go, there’s nothing particularly exciting about John Ensign. (As Wonkette observes, there’s nothing to exciting about a man having an affair with a woman of comparable age.) Still, I’ve always believed that when you make other people’s personal lives a part of your political philosophy, you deserve the added scrutiny of your own private life. And that’s what makes this affair so newsworthy. Not the fact that that the affair occurred, but Ensign’s rank hypocrisy:
When Bill Clinton’s adultery came to public light, Ensign not only voted to remove the president from office, but insisted the president should resign as a result of the personal scandal. When former Sen. Larry Craig was caught up in a sex scandal, Ensign not only called for Craig’s ouster, but led the charge against him.Ensign has also been a fierce opponent of marriage equality, and supported a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. In 2004, the Nevada Republican lectured his colleagues, “Marriage is the cornerstone on which our society was founded. For those who say that the Constitution is so sacred that we cannot or should not adopt the Federal Marriage Amendment, I would simply point out that marriage, and the sanctity of that institution, predates the American Constitution and the founding of our nation.”
And did I mention that Ensign is a longtime member of the Promise Keepers, a conservative evangelical group that promotes strong families and marriages?
It’s truly incredible that for as much as conservatives go on and on about “family values,” family values Republicans (and Ensign certainly falls into that category) never have to hold themselves to the same “Christian” standards that they would apply to the rest of the country. And that’s what really ticks me off about people like John Ensign, that they always seem to exempt themselves from their own self-righteousness.
While I’m on the subject of the Ensign affair, though, it’s worth noting that the Louisiana Democratic Party has an interesting take on the situation:
The Louisiana Democratic Party is today calling on Sen. David Vitter to resign his leadership position in the Republican Party after Sen. John Ensign stepped down from the chairmanship of the Republican Policy Committee, the fourth ranking spot in Senate leadership. Sen. Ensign resigned after confessing to an extramarital affair with a campaign staffer. Sen. Vitter confessed to a “very serious sin” involving illegal activity after his name was mentioned in the federal investigation of the D.C. Madam prostitution ring, and the Louisiana Democratic Party is calling on him to resign his Deputy Whip position in the Senate.
As always, IOKIYAR.
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