It's okay if you're a Republican part 39,804 squared
Funny that:Previously undisclosed e-mail messages turned over to the F.B.I. and Senate ethics investigators provide new evidence about Senator John Ensign's efforts to steer lobbying work to the embittered husband of his former mistress and could deepen his legal and political troubles.
Mr. Ensign, Republican of Nevada, suggested that a Las Vegas development firm hire the husband, Douglas Hampton, after it had sought the senator's help on several energy projects in 2008, according to e-mail messages and interviews with company executives.
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3 comments:
If the Senate felt that it had to boot out Ensign based on the evidence, they'd end up having to throw out at least half of the members for similar breaches of conduct.
Ensign's not particularly exceptional on the broader plane of corruption, although in the details, his did involve some of that icky adultery stuff....
What Ensign's case makes clear is that the Senate can't police itself, nor can the members of that body bring themselves to divine the reasons why the Senate is either, by its very nature, a corrupt institution or why it attracts people who succumb to corruption.
Let's just move on to John Edwards.
i guess just not jazz hands enough
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