Senator John Ensign Retiring, Says "Sins Have Consequences"
Senator John Ensign announced his retirement this afternoon, leaving the door open for Sharron Angle to take another run at the Senate in Nevada.
“I just came to the conclusion that I couldn't put my family through this," said the Nevada senator, who said that he had “fully planned” to run for re-election until coming to the decision to retire last week.
Ensign, whose fast-rising political career was derailed after he admitted to an affair with a campaign aide whose husband served as his deputy chief of staff, said that a pending Senate ethics investigation into his conduct had “zero effect” on the decision not to run for a third term.
Ensign allegedly helped the aide’s husband find a new job, and Ensign’s parents paid the couple $96,000.
"There are consequences to sin and when you’re in a leadership role, those consequences can affect a lot of other people," Ensign said during a press conference announcing his retirement from the Senate.
“At this point in my life, I have to put my family first,” he added.
Oh, how noble. Put his family first, or just unwilling to face public scrutiny in a campaign over his C Street connections, his mistress, or his corruption?
Mommy and Daddy had to bail him out of his problems. How old is this guy? 16?
BTW, Obama signed an executive order keeping Gitmo open indefinitely. Man they really got to him. This just proves there was a military coup in this country on 11/22/63.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
Far as I'm concerned it's the people who run GITMO and enabled it to exist who should be on trial.
Consequences, maybe. But not legal repercussions. Not when the U.S. Department of "Justice" has anything to say about official transgression.
has consequences. Sinning without getting caught has none at all if your conscience doesn't lend a hand.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
for saying exactly what I was about to. Getting caught is the only thing these guys are ever sorry about.
A pending Senate ethics investigation did not influence him, but it going away certainly did.
Hopefully she was really good, otherwise this is such a shame.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Unfortunately men like Ensign seem to go after really unattractive women... must be a way to lessen the "sin" in their minds...
For all his good works, it was the same sort of thing with Pres. Clinton. I mean, puh-leeze! The most powerful man in the world at the time and, without attempting to be overly cruel, take a look at whom he chose for extracurricular bedmates/playmates...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
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I don't think it has anything to do with lessening the sin, but rather in avoiding discovery. Frankly, the less "attractive" the woman, the more likely (although not certainly) she might be persuaded to keep the relationship quiet. A "beautiful" woman, i.e., a woman in which many others are interested, is generally harder to hide unless you're paying her to be quiet.
Perhaps not... both come from strong Protestant backgrounds... I think it may have something to do with self-punishment... like an alcoholic going for cheap vodka rather than top-shelf.
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
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And I realize how mean that sounds in regards to the women involved... it's not my intent to insult them, so much as try to understand the motivations behind hypocrites... at least Pres. Clinton was up-front about his dalliances and didn't make excuses.
Silly me... trying to understand the mind of a hypocritical right-winger... don't need the whiplash...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
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http://saxman.bravepages.com
You can buy more cheap vodka than good vodka, for the same money. Makes perfect sense to an alcoholic. (Besides, after the first couple of drinks, who cares--- weeeeee-ha!?)
far left loon >.<
but I repeat myself:
good riddance
For a typical GOPer sociopath, a sin is only a sin if you get caught and it becomes public knowledge. Great set of morals there, Mr. Family Man.
Owning up to some nebulous idea of "sins" is very convenient. It allows Ensign to avoid doing what non-fundy people do... admitting exactly what he did.
Not naming the specifics allows him to hang on to some things that, to his mind, "aren't wrong"
His biggest sin, and really only one of the few things that are unambiguously wrong, just happens to be the same as those of his winger associates...
Sheer and absolute hypocrisy.
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
Sins have consequences and in his case he gets to deside when those consequences will appear and how. What about regular run of the mill sinners?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
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"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Westboro Baptist Church is there for them.
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How's about Chickens For Check Ups: The Sequel?
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
I think it goes beyond simple sin, it seems to me that it is unethical, if not illegal behavior.
Now I wish that Newt would wake up to a few of his sins and stop being holier-than-thow about his questionable behavior and step away from the presidential table.
There are only two things in life, but I forget what they are.
John Hiatt
someone else's help.
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Any minute now we should be seeing, John Ensign(D) Nevada, on Faux News. Followed 3 days later by the standard, "oooops, it was an honest mistake"
Why does it matter who he sleeps with? Arn't they all adults?
'The devil crept into Heaven, God overslept on the 7th, the New World Order was born on Sept 11th.' - Immortal Technique
It's not the sleeping with (or NOT sleeping, as is the truth), it's the hypocrisy.
I don't give a damn who sleeps with whom, and have no right to say anything about anyone else's bedroom habits.
Ensign, and those like him, feel quite comfortable directing other peoples' sex lives, while being and doing that which they rail against.
See the difference?
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
IT'S THE HYPOCRISY, STUPID!
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Translation: The political contributions of have dried up.
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David Vitter is without sin.
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In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
If Ensign really MEANT what he said, he should've said it months ago, after it was firmly established he did what it was reported he did. Instead he likely stayed around to create more damage. Eliot Spitzer at least had the guts to resign when he was "outed." I see a whole class----including Vitter, Larry Craig, all these holier-than-thous-in-stump-attire----that richly deserves to be bounced from public office (naturally, if they haven't already...or been removed by constituents). They've all got "R" next to their names...a fine class of Congresscritters.
...because I cannot imagine Ensign, or any GOPer, having a crisis of conscience and / or doing the right thing.
Or is it just Mommy and Daddy? I guess it will be a comedown for him to leave the pristine ethical environment of senatorial politics and return to the casino biz....
BEFORE he started stuping the help.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
We all know that the universe dictates that there shall always be 10,000 philandering republicans.
So - who joins the list now that NevadaMan is leaving?
Unfaithful Man Puts Family First
:^)
far left loon >.<
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