Posted by
Tomás Aquinas on Thursday, July 09, 2009 10:43:13 PM
More embarrassment for John Ensign the senator that was boffing one of his staffers:
Ensign paid mistress severance, husband says
An excerpt:
Hampton
told the newspaper that he learned of the affair between his friend the
senator and his wife when he discovered an incriminating text message.
He also detailed a February 2008 meeting in which he, Republican Sen.
Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and others encouraged Ensign to end the affair,
as well as the working relationship with the Hamptons. Hampton said
Coburn and others tried to encourage Ensign to compensate the couple
and help them relocate.
"These men
were the ones that said, 'What we need to do is get Doug Hampton's home
paid for, and we need to get Doug Hampton some money. We need to get
his family to Colorado,"' Hampton said in the interview, according to a
transcript obtained by The Associated Press.
OK ... now, Ensign
did screw the pooch, in a figurative sense. We already know about the
literal sense, and I'm not sure she's a dog. But consider this:
The
husband is right in the middle of all this. It's like he's the
shackrat's press secretary and broker. Did you catch that business
about the husband being at the meeting with the other senators who were
trying to 'encourage Ensign to end the affair"? That's the same meeting
where they were trying to broker 'compensation' for the Hamptons. "...
get Doug Hampton's home paid for ...". Get him some money. Get them
moved to Colorado.
The cynic in me wonders ... was Hampton her
husband, or her p**p? (apparently TownHall thinks that word is 'inappropriate') Think about it. There's a bunch of Republican
senators, sitting around with Ensign and his shackrat's p**p,
negotiating a price. "Family values" at work. Not only is Ensign dumber
than dog crap, but so are his pals. And consider this somewhat cynical
thought: Was the whole thing a setup? Did the Hamptons, once Ensign
started sniffing around, put together the Rest of the Plan in order to
squeeze some bux out of Ensign? Wasn't extortion part of the original
story?
This is really quite a sorry mess. These are the clowns who are running the country.
Then, Ensign, like Sanford, just has to bring God into it:
In
the Feb. 2008 letter posted on the newspaper's Web site, someone
signing their name "John" says he takes "100 percent responsibility for
my actions." "God never intended us to do this. I walked away from Him
and my relationship with Him has suffered terribly," the letter reads.
Wow.
"John" has just had a theological Revelation. Not bad for a Republican,
a member of the Family Values Party. Why is it that these guys don't
seem to remember these little details when they are running around
suffering from Erectus Permanitus?
"Family Values". You gotta be kidding.