Posted by
Tomás Aquinas on Thursday, July 09, 2009 10:45:13 PM
Ensign's parents gave mistress nearly $100,000
The plot thickens, and gets increasingly bizarre, in the case of Sen. John Ensign's affair.
The
Nevada Republican, through a written statement by his attorney,
admitted Thursday that his parents paid the family of his mistress
nearly $100,000 last year.
Here's a good observation:
"It
just makes John Ensign look all the worse," [Sloan]said. "He's a
senator, not a 12-year-old. Now he needs his parents to come in and
clean up his mess?"
Republican senator Tom Coburn, from
the Okie Bible Belt, has had his fingers in the Ensign pie from the
beginning. He's the one that Hampton - husband and p*mp, or p*mp and
husband, take your pick - alleges was talking money. Coburn refuses to
discuss what advice he took, since Coburn is - naturally - a deacon. An
ordained deacon. Well sure. Figuring out a fair settlement for clearing
out one of those pesky "Family Values" things certainly comes under
'religious counselling'. Not only that, but Coburn is claiming
doctor/patient confidentiality, since he is a physician, too.
Problem
is ... Coburn is an obstetrician. Since Ensign is such a wussy, I
wonder if his vagina was hurting.
Roll
Call reported Thursday that Coburn is claiming that because he gave the
advice as a "physician and as an ordained deacon," he doesn't have to
testify. Roll Call reported that Coburn cited constitutional
protections for religious counseling as well as for patient
confidentiality.
Coburn, though, is an obstetrician, making it unlikely that Ensign was a patient in the traditional sense.
Republicans. The party of Family Values. What a joke.