Posts tagged “John Ensign”
Did Someone Accuse Ensign Of Telling The Truth?
Las Vegas Sun columnist Jon Ralston gives Nevada Senator John Ensign the treatment he so richly deserves: he jumps all over him with hobnailed boots. In a column that appeared late Saturday night, Jon skewered John over the letter John sent out last week soliciting contributions to his legal defense fund. (In a move that [...]
More Republican Lunacy
How insane is this? Republican Senator John Ensign believes (or pretends to) that if you conscientiously believe that a statutory requirement is unconstitutional, you should have the right to refuse to comply, and not be subject to “fines or the interpretation of a judge, potentially, all the way up to imprisonment”: ENSIGN: We’ve allowed exceptions [...]
Ensign Payoff Is Transparent Tax Dodge
The Republican Party’s ongoing Sex Scandal Duel between Erstwhile Presidential Candidates took an uncomfortable turn for John Ensign yesterday, making him the runaway star of the news cycle. Nevada Sen. John Ensign has acknowledged that his parents paid his mistress and her family $96,000 in April 2008, according to a statement made by his attorney [...]
Sober Reflections On The Sanford Saga
(1) In retrospect, one thing is clear about the 2008 Presidential election. It seems to have forever emboldened adulterers in the Republican party (both admitted and unadmitted) into fancying themselves as perfectly viable candidates. This is perhaps the natural result of seeing admitted serial adulterer John McCain make it all the way to the finals, [...]
With The Full Knowledge Of His Peers
One aspect of the John Ensign sexual-harassment-and-adultery scandal that I find most interesting is the light it sheds on the way the Republican party operates, on the real values of the so-called family-values party. (Also, how come no one is talking about this as sexual harassment? When you repeatedly engage in sex with an employee [...]