Written by Tondee's Tavern Tuesday, 23 June 2009 17:46
Republican Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.) returned to the US Senate today and apologized at a Senate Republican luncheon for his recently disclosed affair with a campaign aide.
According to press reports, Republican lawmakers were quick to forgive Ensign, with many anxiously looking to put the entire episode behind them.Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), for his part, urged Ensign to stay on in the Senate. Chambliss and Ensign are golfing buddies, you see, and they sport the 2nd and 3rd lowest golf handicaps in the US Senate. So listen, Chambliss says, everybody just needs to chill out. These kinds of things happen all the time! This whole things is really nothing more than a little "mistake":
"A few senators said they hoped Ensign would return to the chamber soon to resume his work rather than resigning outright. 'These situations happen. I don't know the facts surrounding John's situation, but Lord knows if we kicked everybody out of here who made a mistake, we'd be short-handed forever,' said Sen. Saxby Chambliss (Ga.)."Of course, the “facts” in this case might matter. A lot. Roll Call online is reporting that the Center for Responsible Ethics in Washington (CREW) is ready to file an employee practices complaint with the Senate ethics committee. Those kind of pesky things can happen when you dip your pen in the company ink.
But back to Saxby, because when everything is said and done, he has a soft heart and forgiving nature when it comes to sins of the flesh.
AJC - December 12, 1998:
"Chambliss issued a statement hours before Clinton spoke to the nation in a last-ditch effort to stave off impeachment and the House Judiciary Committee approved an article of impeachment. 'After serious deliberation and prayer, I believe the only reasonable course of action is for the House of Representatives to move toward impeachment against the president,' Chambliss said in the statement."
Kansas City Star - October 8, 2007:
Some of the Senate GOP muttering about Larry Craig's change of mind on resigning: John Ensign of Nevada: "I don't think it's a distraction for the party. It's just maybe a personal distraction for me." Saxby Chambliss of Georgia: "I can't think of anything good about it." Jim DeMint of South Carolina: "You don't want to know what I really feel."
(Disclaimer: Saxby's empathy does not apply to the Clenis, Democrats, or gay people. Side efects of Saxby's empathy may include dry mouth, nausea, and lose of motor function. All other empathy sold seperately.)
[Ed. Note: Big h/t to Reader HM for the info sent along via the tip line]
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mark.maisel: ...
The clarity with which the open eyed may observe the importance of political affiliation and coalition versus claimed moral/religious standards makes makes one sad, or it should. Otherwise, there is a terrible risk of cynicism which could lead to moral equivalence.
I tend to avoid having strong views on many topics, preferring instead to note history and how it shows that different means must be employed in different times. Adultery is one of my hot button topics. I realize it happens for a wide variety of reasons, and more often than many would care to admit. However, when the icing on such a cake is hypocrisy as is the case with folks like Newt Gingrich, Senator Ensign, and Governor Sanford, it makes my blood boil. I go sit somewhere quietly since there is little else I can do about it. That Senator Chambliss speaks so differently shows a different hypocrisy, but I've known this about him since his first successful senatorial campaign.
That politics requires the moral compass to always point toward expediency is something rarely admitted by politicians, and even more rarely noticed by voters & supporters. I can understand that the success of politics and government depends upon this idea. I can't understand why voters & supporters fail to see it, save that that most people tend to only listen to people & media with views they already have chosen to accept. Never hearing contradictory or disagreeing views, and being opposed to hearing them, makes for a poor electorate and government. I'm pissing up a rope here, but this latest round of misbehavior frustrates so that I must vent.
I tend to avoid having strong views on many topics, preferring instead to note history and how it shows that different means must be employed in different times. Adultery is one of my hot button topics. I realize it happens for a wide variety of reasons, and more often than many would care to admit. However, when the icing on such a cake is hypocrisy as is the case with folks like Newt Gingrich, Senator Ensign, and Governor Sanford, it makes my blood boil. I go sit somewhere quietly since there is little else I can do about it. That Senator Chambliss speaks so differently shows a different hypocrisy, but I've known this about him since his first successful senatorial campaign.
That politics requires the moral compass to always point toward expediency is something rarely admitted by politicians, and even more rarely noticed by voters & supporters. I can understand that the success of politics and government depends upon this idea. I can't understand why voters & supporters fail to see it, save that that most people tend to only listen to people & media with views they already have chosen to accept. Never hearing contradictory or disagreeing views, and being opposed to hearing them, makes for a poor electorate and government. I'm pissing up a rope here, but this latest round of misbehavior frustrates so that I must vent.
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