Tom Coburn has got some explaining to do

[babylonsister]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/19/744544/-Tom-Coburn-has-got-some-explaining-to-do

Tom Coburn has got some explaining to do
by Jed Lewison

Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 12:46:04 PM PDT


From a letter written on June 11 by Doug Hampton, the husband of the political aide with whom John Ensign had an affair:

The unethical behavior and immoral choice of Senator Ensign has been confronted by me and others on a number of occasions over this past year. In fact one of the confrontations took place in February 2008 at his home in Washington DC (sic) with a group of his peers. One of the attendee’s (sic) was Senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma as well as several other men who are close to the Senator.

Tom Coburn on June 16:

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said Ensign could use forgiveness.

“If you look at it in the light of everybody makes errors, at least he fessed up and resolved the problem with his family; so I think it speaks well of his corrective force.”

So Tom Coburn, who is Ensign's roommate in DC, is begging forgiveness for Ensign and hailing Ensign for having "fessed up." But Coburn himself had known about the affair for 18 months, and Ensign only "fessed up" after Hampton approached Fox News.

If Ensign and Coburn weren't such outspoken crusaders for moral rectitude none of this would be anybody's business except insofar as Ensign's actions constituted sexual harassment or involved public resources.

But both Ensign and Coburn have built a political career on passing moral judgment on others. There's an expression about stones and glass houses that they might have considered before trying to foist their own hypocritical moral code on the rest of the country.

[trumad]

1. K&R

[OKNancy]

2. I'm not outraged because

I can't stop laughing... God I hate Coburn and Inhofe.

I see a letter to the editor in my future.. hahaha.. I love the hypocrisy of the whole thing

[gratuitous]

3. The money quote and the reason this has become a kerfuffle

"If Ensign and Coburn weren't such outspoken crusaders for moral rectitude none of this would be anybody's business except insofar as Ensign's actions constituted sexual harassment or involved public resources."

If Ensign and Coburn could grow up a little bit, and quit pandering to the worst instincts of their tittering constituency (who are agog, giggly and "outraged" all at once over the word "tittering"), maybe we could move on to a society where this sort of thing didn't waste so much.

[jwirr]

4. Well you know it only matters when you get caught.

:sarcasm:

[Joanne98]

5. Hypocrite birds of a feather.

[malaise]

6. Yes he does

I'm lovin' it.