Bwaaaaaaaaaaaah John Ensign admits to an extra- marital

[malaise]

affair with staffer's wife during the campaign.
I love when hypocrites are exposed. :rofl:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/eye-on-2012/ensign-to-acknowledge-extramar.html?hpid=topnews
<snip>
Sources in Washington and Nevada say Republican Sen. John Ensign, a rising star in the Republican Party considering a 2012 presidential bid will hold a press conference later today in which he will acknowledge an extramarital affair.

Ensign, a member of the Senate GOP leadership, flew back to his native Las Vegas today in anticipation of the public announcement, sources said, missing a vote considered key to the Nevada tourist industry.

Two senior GOP political strategists, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, said the announcement was imminent. They declined to say with whom Ensign had the affair.

sp, add link, snip

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. I don't want to think of Ensign "Exposed"

:puke:

[Captain Hilts]

2. Oh, my, that's PRICELESS!

[malaise]

3. Oh yes!

Republican Sen. John Ensign of Nevada is admitting he had an extramarital affair with a member of his campaign staff. Ensign told The Associated Press in a statement, "I deeply regret and am very sorry for my actions."

An aide in Ensign's office said the affair took place between December 2007 and August 2008, with a campaign staffer who was married to an employee in Ensign's Senate office. Neither have worked for the senator since May 2008. The aide spoke on condition of anonymity.

http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2009/06/16/sen_ensign_admits_extramarital_affair

Byebye Sarah Palin - it's Ensign time. :rofl:

[gratuitous]

11. Well, if he's sorry

Then no problem. I don't see this as any impediment to his political future whatsoever under the IOKIYAR Doctrine.

[malaise]

51. We need Nevada DUers to give us the details of the extortion threats from

the ex-mistress and to post the video link of the press conference.

[Cha]

29. Let me guess... Ensign was all about

espousing family values before, during, and after the "affair"?

[joeybee12]

4. Is it wrong to take pleasure in someone's pain I ask myself?

And I answer, who cares!!!!

[TahitiNut]

10. Schadenfreude ... leave it to the Germans to have a word for it. (Danke shon, Herr Adorno.)

:evilgrin:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude

[joeybee12]

15. And then Homer asks, what is it when you are mad when someone gets something good?

Lisa: Sour grapes.

Homer: Boy, those Germans have a word for everything.

:D

[KamaAina]

12. It's called "schadenfreude"

and no, of course not. Not if it's a repuke. :evilgrin:

[joeybee12]

17. Right now, it's beyond pleasure...it's well...almost...

:blush:

[wryter2000]

5. Now, now

Surely, you aren't getting any enjoyment out of his humiliation. That wouldn't be the liberal thing to do. :evilgrin:

[malaise]

6. You Betcha

:evilgrin:

[Stevenmarc]

7. Not everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas apparently .

[malaise]

8. The problem is when the husband is your staffer

and he finds out.

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. I can see the GOP hypocrisy from my house!

[malaise]

13. Hahahahahahahahahaha

DUzy :rofl:

[gratuitous]

14. Well, as long as he said he's sorry

Then no problem. I don't see this as any impediment to his political future whatsoever under the IOKIYAR Doctrine.

[Cha]

31. Yeah, vitter's still around in

the Senate, isn't he?

[NewJeffCT]

39. Republicans gave him a standing ovation when he returned

to the Senate.

[Cha]

42. Their drooling hypocricy

knows no bounds. Wonder if he wins his next election?

[OhioBlue]

71. yeah and Newt's one of the GOP's favorite sons. n/t

[kath]

35. That's right, IOKIYAR rules.

:banghead:

[TahitiNut]

16. There's gotta be a great pun using "ensign" and "staff" ... I'll have to think on it.

:rofl:

[malaise]

19. Maybe

assigned .:evilgrin:

[babylonsister]

18. Kiss his prez aspirations buh-bye! nt

[malaise]

21. Poor fool can't expect sympathy on matters civil rights

not given his voting history
http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/john_ensign.htm

[nichomachus]

26. Not at all -- he's a Republican -- it's ok if you're a Republican

He's have a press conference, cry, tell us he's asked Jesus for forgiveness and it will be business as usual.

[kath]

36. yep, adultery, soliciting sex in restrooms, sending salacious e-mails to young boys, and other

such transgressions only ruin the careers of Democrats.

[malaise]

37. Do not forget that he wanted Craig to resign n/t

[bdamomma]

76. and Clinton too.

what hypocrites they are.

[wolfgangmo]

56. Are you kidding?

If he gets his wife to try to fire someone and his kid has a child out of wedlock with a redneck then he's a shoe in.

[Kansas Wyatt]

65. Satan made him do it!

'Prayers for his timely recovery will be greatly appreciated, along with support for him kicking that liberal pinko commie muslim fascist Obama out of the White House in 2012.'

And if he were a Democrat... 'Godless heathen filthy liberals are destroying this country with their immoral sexual fornications. My God, what will the children think?'

Their hypocrisy knows no boundaries.

[spanone]

20. '

r

[cascadiance]

22. Why doesn't he just have the other woman (or man) stand up on the stage and campaign with him?

I mean, this person's already on his staff anyway, and that's what Sarah Palin would do, wouldn't she?

Then people like Letterman couldn't attack him either! Would be the way to go for him!

[TahitiNut]

23. Meet Senator and Mrs (Darlene) Ensign ...

[cascadiance]

24. That "Links for Life" sign over them is just priceless in this context! :)

[malaise]

25. Any bets they've wiped those smiles off those faces

about now.

[TahitiNut]

30. Well, he's a veterinarian ... so he's got a backup career with .... (stifled).

The GOP takes any kind of "vet" they can get, I guess.

[tomreedtoon]

33. Probably lousy to judge Mrs. Ensign on looks alone...

...but she seems attractive to me. Why would a guy need to cheat on this woman? Forbidden fruit or something? Boredom? Maybe there's something to her that he just couldn't stand that won't show in a still photo?

Whatever it is, he seems pretty stupid to wreck a relationship by doing that.

[redqueen]

40. "need to cheat"? So if the wife isn't hot enough, then the guy 'needs' to cheat?

[malaise]

43. I'm sure he felt very powerful knowing that he was

messing around with his own staffer's wife. This has everything to do with power and nothing to do with looks. The thinking is 'I am powerful and I can get away with anything'.

[NewJeffCT]

46. Umm, just because somebody's spouse is pretty

doesn't mean they (be it a man or woman) won't cheat on them. Jennifer Aniston anybody?

[malaise]

57. This is why he has gone public

Politico reported, per a Nevada political insider "that Ensign began an affair with a staffer several months after he separated from his wife. When Ensign reconciled with his wife, the source said, he gave the aide a severance package and parted ways. Sometime later, the source said, Ensign met with the husband of the woman involved and had what this source described as a positive encounter. But the source said that the man subsequently asked Ensign for a substantial sum of money -- at which point Ensign decided to make the affair public."

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/06/16/1967470.aspx

[guruoo]

68. Why would he be apologising if he and his wife were seperated??

:shrug:

[wryter2000]

41. That twerp!

Somehow, the name Ensign didn't register.

:rofl:

[malaise]

44. Oops Ed is showing the press conference

Excuses, excuses.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

54. James Brolin is a senator?

[stevedeshazer]

62. Yeah. And I didn't know he married Lily Tomlin.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

78. ........

:rofl:

[Ghost in the Machine]

72. I'm game if she wants to go out for a little revenge romp..

... no strings attached, Mrs. Ensign, I'll bury my emotions and feelings for one night and just become a tool for your vengeful fantasies....


Call me , okay?

[joeybee12]

27. Come everyone K&R this all the way to the front page!!!

:bounce:

[chollybocker]

28. Wikipedia's already been up-dated!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ensign

"Extramarital Affair
In 2009, Ensign admitted he had an extramarital affair between December 2007 and August 2008 with a member of his campaign staff who was married to an employee in Ensign's Senate office.<8>" (ref.link goes to the 25-minute-old A/P article)

"Ensign is a member of the Pentecostal International Church of the Foursquare Gospel..." He's an Aimee Semple McPherson-ist!!

Bwaaaahahahahahaha!

[malaise]

34. Wikipedia Updates are the new definition of

a split second - love it.

[kath]

32. More Republican family values!

Repug hypocrisy is so rampant.
Yet they always seem to get a free pass on it...

[kath]

45. Ensign Called On Clinton To Resign After Admitting Affair — ‘He Has No Credibility Left’

see this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8475344


I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I say that the man could be such a hypocrite!

[malaise]

47. Oh My the ex-mistress was tryng to extort money

from Ensign - this is getting even better - Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah :rofl:

[mitchum]

50. That makes sense; why else would anyone fuck him but for money?

[NewJeffCT]

49. As I posted in that thread - everything changed after 9/11

so, now it's okay to cheat on your spouse & maintain credibility.

[SpiralHawk]

38. Typical Wide Stance Republicon Family Values

Ptooey on their hyprocrisy. Republicons are the Latter Day Pharisees, fer sure.

[Arkana]

48. I believe the term is "hypocrate".

And John Ensign is one. In a big bad way.

[TahitiNut]

67. Is that a shipping container for a hypotenuse?

:dunce:

[Ilsa]

52. It's them durn gays and lesbians that caused it! Even after he spoke for DOMA

he had an affair! It's gotta be the fault of the ho-mo-sex-u-als, right? :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[11 Bravo]

53. Animal, vegetable, or mineral?

[LeftishBrit]

55. Well, everyone who was impeaching Clinton over Monica seems to have been having their own affairs

Was this Ensign character one of the Clinton-impeachers too?

[TahitiNut]

58. Who knew Clinton was such a powerful leader?

:dunce:

[malaise]

64. Of course

See #45 and #60

[SoCalDem]

59. and when he runs for president in '12, he'll say.......

"THAT'S OLD NEWS, MY WIFE FORGAVE ME..MOVE ON."

and the press will... (page 1,021 George Bush Presidential Campaign Handbook)

[chat_noir]

60. John Ensign Was Right...If only we had listened to Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) when he 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.


... because if we had, he wouldn't have been forced have an affair with the wife of an employee


And of course in the interest of consistency, we can expect Ensign to announce his resignation, given that he called for Bill Clinton to resign in light of his extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky ...


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/16/743309/-John-Ensign-Was-Right

[NNN0LHI]

61. Wonder why the woman he was playing stinkfinger with didn't just take the sure million from Flynt?

A guaranteed cool million from Larry Flynt sounds a lot better than going to jail for extortion maybe?

Don

[malaise]

63. Good point but they're all

Rushicans.

[Seen the light]

66. ALL of them are hypocrites. ALL of them

Every "Christian" Republican in Congress has either cheated on their spouses or are into stuff like, I don't know, scat porn. Hilarious.

[marmar]

69. Isn't he one of those "Sanctity of Marriage" senators too?

He believes that marriage is between one man, one woman and his mistress.

[Jack Sprat]

70. He admits it and is very sorry.

He is sorry that he is being blackmailed into making this admission. He will not do this again until the next time. :sarcasm:

Seriously, I thought blackmail was against the law. Can his blackmailer get in trouble for this, if it can be proven they were extorting money from him for their silence?

[AnnieBW]

73. What happened in Vegas

Didn't stay in Vegas.

[newtothegame]

74. Bwwwaaaahhh!!!! A wife just got her life ruined!!! And a husband!!! Isn't that fuckin' hilarious??!!

[malaise]

77. Yep and even more hilarous will be Ensign

convincing anyone that the severance package to the mistress wasn't hush money.
Afterall how many campaign staffers receive severance packages?

Next time all parties will think about what happens when the affair ends before it begins.

I always laugh at hypocrites.

[NNN0LHI]

79. Which husband are you talking about?

Ensign or the woman's husband who was blackmailing him?

Don

[malaise]

80. LOL

Good question :fistbump:

[bdamomma]

75. well, he can give up any aspirations to run in 2012!!!