Just last month, Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) resigned from the Senate after having decided that he would not run for re-election in 2012. Under investigation of the Senate ethics committee for charges stemming from an extramarital affair that led to bribery and FEC violations, Ensign made the announcement to resign May 3. The ethics committee released its report and has referred the case to the Justice Department
Tom Coburn Helped Cover Up John Ensign Affair: Senate Ethics Report
Panel Says Senator Was Warned on Illegality of Act
As Gaius Publius at AMERICAblog says,
Senate ethics complaints almost never come down to a resignation; it’s a ruler to the wrist and they move on.
It seems that John Ensign is the exception. If what Rachel Maddow says in the following report is true, this is a genuinely horrible human being, a sorry specimen – and not in a good way, since he’s apparently not sorry at all. Be prepared to be appalled.
A terrible human being. How did you fail thee? Let me count the ways. The horrid story starts at 5:05 in the clip. First it’s lurid, then turns cruel, then criminal.
Ensign couldn’t keep his pants on and figured he could buy his way out of the hole he had dug himself. Now he has ruined the lives of two families and stands to be indicted. Let’s see what transpires regarding Sen. Tom Coburn’s involvement and facilitation of this sordid C Street debacle.
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