That if you, as an elected official, decide to put the moves on your wife’s best friend while she, her husband and children are living with you and your family temporarily; and if/when you get found out and the husband approaches you for “financial support,” Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) is NOT, NOT, NOT the guy to use as an intermediary to negotiate a settlement. After all, he wanted John Ensign, the recently resigned GOP Senator from Nevada, to buy Doug and Cindy Hampton’s NV house for approx. $1.5 million; and then give the Hamptons an additional $1 million or so “start-over” money so they could relocate far away from the Ensigns and get on with their lives. The nerve!
(In case you were wondering, the Mark Ensigns — the Senator’s parents — eventually came through with $96K, a payment the Senate Ethics Committee finds dubious under the law, since it’s probably an illegal campaign contribution. It has referred the matter to the Federal Election Commission; actually, it’s referred the entire Ensign investigation to the Justice Department for their own investigation. And people say ethics don’t count on Capitol Hill!)
Additionally, Senator Coburn failed in his central duty of keeping John Ensign’s dick in his pants, as Ensign said in his resignation speech:
My caution to all of my colleagues is to surround yourselves with people who will be honest with you about how you really are and what you are becoming, and then make them promise to not hold back no matter how much you may try to prevent them from telling you the truth. I wish I had done this sooner, but this is one of the hardest lessons I have had to learn.
Right. Are we clear on this? It’s not up to John Ensign to police his own character, it’s up to his posse, which in Ensign’s case were a bunch of highly aggressive devout Christians living in the infamous C Street townhouse owned by a little-known religious organization called “The Fellowship.” Turns out they are the same folks who bring you the National Prayer Breakfast. (Sex and eggs amongst the bacon. Who knew?)
And, not that Ensign gives his bros any credit for this, they DID tell him “what [he] was and what [he] was becoming,” the randy Senator just didn’t give a damn.
In one passage of the report, Ensign’s “spiritual adviser,” Tim Coe, called Ensign from outside of a hotel room where the senator was with Cindy Hampton and told him: “I know exactly where you are. I know exactly what you are doing. Put your pants on and go home.
You can read the whole ethics report here, if you don’t mind tossing your Cheerios. The Bitch sincerely hopes the Senator ends up doing hard time. (But admits he probably won’t.)
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