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Hampton: Religious Buddies Drove Ensign To FedEx To Mail Letter To Cindy
We're probably not going out on a limb by saying that Doug Hampton's entire televised interview about John Ensign's affair with Hampton's wife Cindy, and the fallout from it, had to have been pretty embarrassing for the Nevada senator, if he's even been able to bring himself to watch it.
But one particular narrative that Hampton lays out really brings out what seems like the utter pathetic-ness of a man who Republicans once talked about as presidential material -- as well as the strangely paternalistic culture of the religious organization with which he's affiliated. And it jibes with yesterday's news that Ensign went to his parents to pay off the Hamptons, painting a picture of a man who, despite being 51 years old and a powerful US senator, still seems strangely weak-willed and dependent on those around him.
Hampton told his interviewer, Jon Ralston, that after discovering that Ensign was sleeping with Cindy Hampton -- and rightly not trusting the senator's assurances that the affair was over -- Doug Hampton went to a group of men associated with the C Street Christian fellowship to which Ensign belonged, and asked them to "confront" Ensign.
Already we're in weird territory here: couldn't Hampton have just kept this between himself, his wife, and the Ensigns? Why bring in these outsiders? Hampton's determination to avoid recognizing that his wife had any agency in the affair, and his decision to address it in an outside men-only forum, goes beyond self-delusion and into a kind of misogyny. But set that aside because things get weirder...
Hampton went on to name four of the men who confronted Ensign: Tim Coe, David Coe, Marty Sherman, and Sen. Tom Coburn. The Coes are the sons of Doug Coe, the influential pastor and longtime leader of The Family, the secretive Christian group with which the C Street fellowship is affiliated. Sherman also has been involved with the Family. "They have a good heart," Hampton said of the men. (He did not address the question of how the men survive while sharing a crucial bodily organ.)
At that confrontation, according to Hampton, Coburn and the other men urged Ensign -- the son of a multimillionaire casino magnate -- to pay for the Hamptons' home and for a move to Colorado. But as Hampton described it, they also insisted that Ensign write a letter to his girlfriend -- later obtained by the Las Vegas Sun -- breaking things off and expressing remorse. Then, says Hampton, two of the men, Tim Coe and Sherman, actually drove Ensign to a FedEx office, apparently to make sure he sent the letter.
And yet, Hampton said that soon after ditching his detail of religious protectors, Ensign called Cindy to warn her that the letter was coming and that she should disregard it. Twenty-four hours after sending the letter, said Hampton, Ensign was with Cindy in Las Vegas.
Now, Ensign's sex life is basically his own and his wife's business. But when a US senator submits to a lecture about that sex life from a group of outsiders, then has himself driven to FedEx to mail a letter breaking things off with his girlfriend -- who, incidentally, is his best friend's wife -- before secretly disavowing the letter right afterward and continuing the affair, he simply becomes hard to take seriously as a human being, much less as any kind of candidate for anything.
And in case that doesn't make Ensign out to be pathetic enough, there's a capper: after all this, when it finally came time to cover his tracks and get the Hamptons out of his office, he couldn't find it in him to tell Cindy himself -- he needed his religious buddies even for that. "Cindy ultimately was asked to leave basically by The Family," Doug Hampton told Ralston.
Leaning on his parents for a lousy hundred grand starts to seem like a stand-up move, by comparison.
Josh
Zachary
If Ensign were a Democrat, his own party would be demanding he get out. If he didn't resign like Spitzer, and couldn't be impeached like a governor, they would be removing his committee assignments to make the point like with William Jefferson.
So as long as Ensign stays, the Republicans get to add to their collection of albatross necklaces. And the next time they denounce Franken for his Playboy article...
July 10, 2009 12:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't know, Dems aren't any better on the moral side. But at least Dems don't pride their Walk With God.
July 10, 2009 2:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, they aren't any better. But they haven't spent the last 20 years telling us who we can screw, and who we can marry.
July 10, 2009 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's nonsense dorn. They don't care as long as we aren't screwing someone of the same sex or marrying likewise. You know that.
July 10, 2009 4:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Point. They are certainly showing us by their example that they don't care whether it is adultery or not.
Proposed Repug Motto: Sinner go and sin some more.
And while we're at it what type of a cult is this family and who else in our government is involved in it.
I've wondered about the power of group think in the Republican legislature but if they are being block captains to each other lives like the communist watchdogs set on their neighbors it becomes more understandable if more appalling.
July 10, 2009 6:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bullshit!! We ask our leaders to step down if the fuck up. Thugs don't and dems don't parade themselves around as moral pilars of society and don't tell others how to live while screwing around themselves.
Continue to stick you head up your ass so you don't have to listen to the truth.
You people are pathetic.
July 10, 2009 5:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, come on.
Other than Droopy. . . er, I mean, Joe Lieberman, what other Democrat called for Bill Clinton to resign.
Both parties are just different sides of the same debased coin, especially when it comes to male malefactoring.
July 12, 2009 4:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Way to accept personal responsibility there, Hampton. You've made Gingrich, Craig, Vitter and Sanford into straight shooters by comparison.
July 10, 2009 12:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Huh? I think you mean Ensign...
July 10, 2009 12:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Going to be interesting to see how these "gifts" were (or were NOT) reported to the IRS.
Ensign and his cult buddies may have stepped in a big steaming pile of GOP feces.
Hey...one can have dreams, right?
July 10, 2009 12:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I believe the whole reason behind making 8 separate gifts of $12,000 each, to 4 separate people, was to keep each individual transaction below the reportable threshold.
May not be kosher, but probably didn't break any tax laws.
July 10, 2009 4:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
The payments only qualify as gifts if the donor receives nothing in return. In this case, it appears that the Ensigns received (or thought they were receiving) silence.
July 11, 2009 1:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, this guy would probably be an improvement on recent Republican Presidential candidates. At least, he could not possibly be any worse than other trust fund brats like McCain and Bush.
July 10, 2009 12:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
But he is just as bad and maybe worse.
July 10, 2009 5:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is one story where there is just nobody to feel sorry for. They make Desperate Housewives boring.
July 10, 2009 12:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh I don't know. I do feel sorry for Cindy. The men in her life seem pretty pathetic.
July 10, 2009 3:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't. Cindy could have said "NO!" But she didn't.
July 13, 2009 8:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
What is amazing here is that these people think that involving themselves in someone's life is perfectly normal. They have no bounds, hence their stand against privacy issues, gay rights, etc. The sooner these groups get outed for who they really are and the bounds they refuse to recognize, the better. Of course members like ensign are weak, that's why they belong to these groups.
The Republicans are strong as a group, even with the least bit of incohesiveness, they split apart quicker than an atom. Individually they are weak, spineless, and corrupt. They need to hide their true nature and that's why a key indicator of a true republican is his Mendacity and inability to man up to the truth.
July 10, 2009 12:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. So, these people prioritize private interest over public service so much that they choose FedEx over the US Postal Service to mail their Dear John letters.
July 10, 2009 12:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Absolutely. Hating the US Postal Service with a fiery passion is a core tenet of their faith.
July 10, 2009 1:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
You appear sarcastic, but, as if anyone hasn't noticed, a strong distaste for government is very much an article of faith among movement conservatives.
July 11, 2009 8:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Mayora Tavares
July 10, 2009 1:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
The men-only forum is wierd, I'll agree, but I don't think it's unusual for someone to discount their spouse's own culpability in a case like this.
Look at Elizabeth Edwards....I found it interesting (and a little sad) that in the interviews I saw of her she really seemed to focus on how the other woman "seduced" her husband - she told him he was "hot" and waited for him outside his hotel - like he was this poor defenseless man minding his own business until this woman and her evil tactics forced him into the affair. Blech.
July 10, 2009 1:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Elizabeth is no different from most other women. No one wants to believe their own husband would do that to them at first and in poor Elizabeth's case, it was the ultimate smackdown - to be suffering with a terminal illness and your husband is out screwing someone else and having a baby with her.
July 10, 2009 5:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have no use for the hypocrites in the GOP..the members of "C" Street, "The Family" and folks that includes Hillary Clinton..(and didn't Obama attend a couple of "breakfast prayer sessions" with the Family's (the Fellowship's) leading religious advisors..? If you think that Scientology, Catholicism, Mormonism..etc., is "nuts"(take a good long look at the Family's "doctrine" founded in 1935(?)...it isn't any where near what Jesus was preaching as Christianity) ..almost the exact opposite
But what the Hampton's appear to be doing (for money)..is (Doug) pimping and (Cindy) prostituting themselves.....
July 10, 2009 1:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's not quite fair. Doug wasn't actively pimping, he was probably just getting off listening to his wives endeavours. As for Cindy, don't you think prostituting is a strong word, since there was "love" and "love making" I prefer calling it escorting.
July 10, 2009 1:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
So can we all call the WH and say enough is enough with the prayer breakfast and televised trips to the church and National Prayer Day.
I don't remember when all that started, but it seems weird that the President is "obligated" to spend time with these groups.
Remember the howl when the National Prayer Breakfast wasn't televised.
Its all too weird for me.
As for Ensign...well he is getting to weird too,
July 11, 2009 5:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
I can't imagine Obama sat down with these folks. They want nothing to do with him. He's the wrong color folks and on the wrong side.
July 11, 2009 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Anybody consider the possibility that the Hamptons realized just how lame Ensign really is and decided to shake him down? So the wife cuts Ensign a slice every now and again and the husband fleeces him and his nut-job buddies for the gold. Explains why Mr. Hampton didn't kick her out and places no blame on her at all. Also explains why he went to the nut-jobs... just a thought...
July 10, 2009 1:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ensign is an easy mark.
July 10, 2009 3:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
At least he's morally one step above me. When my sect forces me to fedex break up letter to my mistresses (it has happened a few times), I don't call. I just send it for early delivery, and guess who's there picking it up in the morning, yours truely. It may not always work out well, but as anyone cheating, make sure you know the partner's schedule.
That's my tip of the day. More to come soon.
July 10, 2009 1:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
As I suggested this to Josh this morning via email, I don't think this is a matter of ensign "leaning" on his parents for $100k. It wasn't $100k, it was $96,000, and here's why:
Mom and Pop Ensign were taking advantage of the annual gift tax exclusion which enables gifts of $12,000 per individual to pass to any other individual free of tax and requiring no documentation in the form of a gift tax return.
Thus, Mom and Pop to pass $24,000 ($12,000 each) to the mistress, the husband, and two kids. 4 x $24,000 = $96,000. Not only does this provide a degree of separation from the Senator himself, but the only way for him to pass ~$100k would have been for his wife to make $48,000 in gifts to his mistress' family.
No, this was sleight-of-hand for tax and reporting purposes.
Now, the question is, did the gift actually benefit Ensign? The IRS might be interested in this transaction since if the funds had passed to or through Ensign, half of the $96,000 would have been outside the exemption and the balance subject to gift tax returns and gift taxes.
July 10, 2009 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Now, the question is, did the gift actually benefit Ensign? "
In hindsight, I think that's an easy one.
July 10, 2009 1:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe it was tax avoidance and not tax-evasion, but the intent was to hide the transfer and keep it tax-free.
July 10, 2009 1:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
The gifts were made in April 2008 when the exclusion was $12k per person per year. It went to $13k in 2009. Would a 2009 gift have meant $104,000 for the mistress and her fam? No way. The price of silence was $100k.
There's another $4k out there somewhere.
July 10, 2009 1:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think we all got the math part okay and the IRS/potentially criminal aspect to this is pretty self-evident. It's not that unusual for people to round up or down when reporting. Not sure why you're convinced the 'price of silence' was actually $100,000 instead of that simply being a rounded up way of referring to $96,000. Does it really matter if there is an additional $4,000? Assuming Ensign's parents would not have been stupid enough to risk flagging themselves to the IRS for a measly $4,000, what difference would it make if someone else who is simply generous and helpful like Ma & Pa Ensign paid it? It doesn't meet the IRS gift threshold.
July 10, 2009 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
A couple of comments from a Christian (at least I believe I am a Christian) and many other Christian (don't know if they really are or if they even think they are) folk.
I've noticed over a few decades that if one believes and worships God.. or a god... that person is pretty much asked to do what he is told on faith. Because of this, religious folk are much more apt to do what authorities tell them without question. As a child, many of these people were told to NOT question authority... just do it.
Problem is (as I see it) these same folk take that concept into adulthood. Too bad, because this is what many wars are caused by... a 100% commitment to do what God tells them without reservation.
On the other hand, when one commits a sin... there is much inner turmoil because that person is either doomed to an eternity in hell or must do some drastic backsteps and atoning.
In walks the Christian support group... as in this situation.
As an aside, statistics have shown that much incest occurs in this strict, authoritarian realm, be it religious, law enforcement, etc. because the kids are told to obey all things and there are dire consequences for doing anything they are told not to do (such as go for help).
This concept was shown in that experiment in the 70s when psychologists were attempting to find out why people followed Hitler. Simple. The authority figures told them to... and the people did not hesitate.
For a more recent example, see "Iraq War" and "Torture"... IMHO
July 10, 2009 1:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Religion is an opium to the people. Let's legalize it, tax it and make sure there's treatment for those who need it.
July 10, 2009 1:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bush, you may recall, oftn talked about someone or another having "a good heart." More important than a good brain, evidently. As for the other organs, well, it's clear which one gets the priority with these guys.
July 10, 2009 1:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
For more on The Family, Terry Gross interviewed Jeff Sharlet on "Fresh Air" about them.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106115324
July 10, 2009 1:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm buying Sharlet's book this weekend. I watched Rachel last night and I have to know more about these fricking scary creeps
July 10, 2009 5:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Seriously, is this true????? Sounds more like an episode of National Lampoon than anything else. His friends, elected officials at that, drove him to the mailbox?
July 10, 2009 2:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
How do you suppose the Hamptons explained the monetary gift to the children? How old are these children? If they're past believing in Santa, or if they weren't aware of the "gift," as in maybe it went into a college fund, what in the world could the parents say? I just can't see them telling the kids it's pay-off for Mom having sex with the Senator.
July 10, 2009 2:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Those of us who live in Nevada have known since he was originally elected to office that Ensign is a proxy for his father, who is the real "Senator."
The son Ensign is not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.
July 10, 2009 2:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Of course Doug Hampton would want to make Ensign look weak and pathetic. The guy was banging his wife!
So Hampton has the opportunity to make Ensign look like an idiot, and he takes it.
And well played - Ensign had it coming.
July 10, 2009 2:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I actually think it was smart for Hampton to use other people as go-betweens for communications with him and Ensign. My reason is....
If they are alone together Hampton might kill him. And that would be bad for both Hampton and Ensign. I'm not saying that Hampton wants that, but there is a significant chance it would happen.
Almost any man would punch a guy for screwing his wife. If you punch a guy, that will probably start a fight. Fights over women often result in a dead man. (But for some reason the woman involved almost never gets killed.)
So for all you guys screwing another man's wife, don't ever talk to him alone in person. Especially if that man is, or used to be, your close friend.
July 10, 2009 3:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Weird, weird comment.
July 10, 2009 3:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think that well both Republican and Democratic politicians who cheat on their wives screw loosely that the Republicans in the bunch also have some loose screws upstairs.
July 10, 2009 3:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
How weird. A secretive religious group known as "The Family" that handles crisis in the personal lives of it's members, even to the point of their adulterous sex life? Even for a powerful U.S. Senator, mentioned as a possible presidential candidate? Real cult stuff. Who needs "National Treasure" conspiracy movies when you've got the real thing right here. God knows what they do in secret.
What a bunch of freaks.
July 10, 2009 4:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Maybe it's the basis of Dan Brown's new novel. I heard it was set in DC.
July 10, 2009 4:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
These Republicans are dangerous. This is a national party that puts up really defective people for the highest positions in government. Bush, Palin, Craig, Ensign, Newtie, Sanford- it never ends. They range from stupid and uninformed, to maliciously hypercritical and morally challenged, to unethical or criminal. This is the bunch that had no problem ambushing Clinton over his stupid, but private and benign sexual behavior. They could care less if they upended the government of the United States for the sake of their extremist political agenda. Meanwhile, the decent, intelligent, upstanding Republicans like Vin Weber, Tom Davis, Tom Ridge, Chuck Grassley, Dick Lugar and the rest apparently have no chance at the presidency. Only lunatics and defectives need apply. They need to close down the party and start another if the wing nuts are going to have a veto. Makes you long for the likes of Eisenhower, Ev Dirksen, Jack Javits, and Hugh Scott.
July 10, 2009 4:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Where was this band of "family" brothers while Sanford was hiking up the Applachian Trail? No wonder all these soft-headed, magic-sky-fairy-worshipping neocons need a support group to wean them off blow jobs.
Next big headline: Gingrich admits to Cantor dirty sanchez, over a Boehner Cleveland steamer.
July 10, 2009 4:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
I personally would like a follow-up story on every member of Congress that is a member of The Family (they really had to use that name...?). Who lives at this DC house? What else does The Family do? Sounds like a great longer piece for TPM.
July 10, 2009 5:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Read the book by "The Family" by Jeff Sharlet. Here's an excerpt that was published in Harper's Magazine:
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2003/03/0079525
July 10, 2009 6:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Some current and recent ones, from Sharlet's book: DeMint, Brownback, Pitts, Domenici, Grassley, Inhofe, Coburn, Thune, Enzi, Ensign, Nelson, Pryor, Wolf, Wamp, McIntyre to name a few. And in the past Thurmond, Talmadge, Geo. Bush the First and maybe the second, Dan Quayle, Jack Kemp, James Baker. There are thousands of members worldwide. And other group houses other than C Street near D.C. like The Cedars and Ivanwald. There are women's groups, too, and they clean the men's houses--they must wear makeup, and "feminine" clothes and shoes when they do.
July 10, 2009 5:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is what I'd like to see happen to Ensign, Sanford and the rest of the hypocritical bastards (skip ahead to 1:52 for the fun part):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG80yYUNQto
July 10, 2009 6:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
All this phony gift machination was so unnecessary. There was an easier way to pay off the Hamptons. Prostitution is legal in Nevada, so Ensign should just have paid the Hamptons $100,000 for the sex. They could have then off-set that with business expense deductions, and paid taxes on just a small profit, if anything at all. I wonder if Cindy Hampton could depreciate her ... assets?
July 10, 2009 8:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sounds like something scientologists would do. A cult is a cult.
July 10, 2009 8:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board/viewtopic.php?t=13158
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".....Clinton's prayer group was part of the Fellowship (or "the Family"), a network of sex-segregated cells of political, business, and military leaders dedicated to "spiritual war" on behalf of Christ, many of them recruited at the Fellowship's only public event, the annual National Prayer Breakfast. (Aside from the breakfast, the group has "made a fetish of being invisible," former Republican Senator William Armstrong has said.) The Fellowship believes that the elite win power by the will of God, who uses them for his purposes. Its mission is to help the powerful understand their role in God's plan.
Clinton declined our requests for an interview about her faith, but in Living History, she describes her first encounter with Fellowship leader Doug Coe at a 1993 lunch with her prayer cell at the Cedars, the Fellowship's majestic estate on the Potomac. Coe, she writes, "is a unique presence in Washington: a genuinely loving spiritual mentor and guide to anyone, regardless of party or faith, who wants to deepen his or her relationship with God....."
July 10, 2009 11:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
".....The Fellowship's long-term goal is "a leadership led by God—leaders of all levels of society who direct projects as they are led by the spirit." According to the Fellowship's archives, the spirit has in the past led its members in Congress to increase U.S. support for the Duvalier regime in Haiti and the Park dictatorship in South Korea. The Fellowship's God-led men have also included General Suharto of Indonesia; Honduran general and death squad organizer Gustavo Alvarez Martinez; a Deutsche Bank official disgraced by financial ties to Hitler; and dictator Siad Barre of Somalia, plus a list of other generals and dictators. Clinton, says Schenck, has become a regular visitor to Coe's Arlington, Virginia, headquarters, a former convent where Coe provides members of Congress with sex-segregated housing and spiritual guidance......"
July 10, 2009 11:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just googling around.
July 10, 2009 11:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
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There's a reason Hillary Clinton has remained relatively silent during the flap over intemperate remarks by Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, she's a lot more vulnerable than Obama.
This article first appeared on Barbara Ehrenreich's blog.
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You can find all about it in a widely under-read article in the September 2007 issue of Mother Jones, in which Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet reported that "through all of her years in Washington, Clinton has been an active participant in conservative Bible study and prayer circles that are part of a secretive Capitol Hill group known as "The "Fellowship," also known as The Family....
"... As Sharlet reported in Harper's in 2003:
During the 1960s the Family forged relationships between the U.S. government and some of the most anti-Communist (and dictatorial) elements within Africa's postcolonial leadership. The Brazilian dictator General Costa e Silva, with Family support, was overseeing regular fellowship groups for Latin American leaders, while, in Indonesia, General Suharto (whose tally of several hundred thousand "Communists" killed marks him as one of the century's most murderous dictators) was presiding over a group of fifty Indonesian legislators. During the Reagan Administration the Family helped build friendships between the U.S. government and men such as Salvadoran general Carlos Eugenios Vides Casanova, convicted by a Florida jury of the torture of thousands, and Honduran general Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, himself an evangelical minister, who was linked to both the CIA and death squads before his own demise.
At the heart of The Family's American branch is a collection of powerful right-wing politicos, who include, or have included, Sam Brownback, Ed Meese, John Ashcroft, James Inhofe and Rick Santorum. They get to use The Family's spacious estate on the Potomac, The Cedars, which is maintained by young men in Family group homes and where meals are served by The Family's young women's group. And, at The Family's frequent prayer gatherings, they get powerful jolts of spiritual refreshment, tailored to the already powerful.
Clinton fell in with The Family in 1993, when she joined a Bible study group composed of wives of conservative leaders like Jack Kemp and James Baker. When she ascended to the Senate, she was promoted to what Sharlet calls the Family's "most elite cell," the weekly Senate Prayer Breakfast, which included, until his downfall, Virginia's notoriously racist Senator George Allen. This has not been a casual connection for Clinton. She has written of Doug Coe, The Family's publicity-averse leader, that he is "a unique presence in Washington: a genuinely loving spiritual mentor and guide to anyone, regardless of party or faith, who wants to deepen his or her relationship with God....."
July 10, 2009 11:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just saying that this organization has its hooks into the Dems, too. Time to cut the ties.
July 10, 2009 11:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just googling, too: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1474
July 11, 2009 1:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
Republicans sharing a crucial body organ? Oh, you meant a heart.
July 11, 2009 10:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Is it just me, or does Ensign's C Street "Family" sound like a bunch that could be teleporting to follow a comet in their Nikes sometime soon?
July 11, 2009 12:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think they are far more dangerous than we know.
July 11, 2009 9:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
I am more concerned about David Coe and the Family than I am about this pathetic excuse for a human being.
I am buying the book by Jeff Sharlet called the Family tomorrow.
July 11, 2009 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
How many negatives & wrongs does Ensign chalk up with this one? He's at least a liar, a cheat, a tax cheat, a philanderer, unfaithful person (X2), a terrible friend, rotten husband, deceivious human, unmanly, secretive religous zealot, punk Daddy's boy, GOP party pooper & do as I say not as I do hypocritical two-faced political hack of senatorial proportions.
But at least he got his almost in before Sanford & Palin. So, I guess that means that he also has no clue of how to fess up either or what 100% truth is.
Other than that, he's a stand-up guy!
July 11, 2009 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
One thing is true, Ensign is actually among the best the GOP has to offer.
That is a very distrubing fact if you are a Republican.
July 12, 2009 12:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
I note that Doug Hampton went to ENSIGN for re-assurances that the affair was over. WOuldn't that have been something he needed to hear from CINDY? What I get is that the wife's word is of little value; if the MAN wanted the affair to continue, it would continue.
This latter note jibes with Patriarchy. What a sick bunch of f**ks - husbands, wives and panty sniffers like the C-Street jerks.
July 12, 2009 12:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
When you think of the time that it takes to have an affair and cover your tracks to hide it, be counseled by your "brethen" to break it off but then don't break it off, finally convince your parents to pay off your mistress and try to smooth things out with your wife, it really doesn't seem like these Republicans have the time for a real commitment and dedication to their jobs and their constituents, especially in these difficult economic times. Ensign should resign, because Nevada deserves a full time senator...and a grown up.
July 12, 2009 3:43 AM | Reply | Permalink