John Ensign plays the victim card for cash
Emetic of the day: Nevada Republican Sen. John Ensign clinging to his seat, begging donors to fatten up his anemic legal defense fund, and blaming liberals for all his self-inflicted problems.
Sen. John Ensign is asking supporters for donations to pay lawyers defending him in ongoing ethics investigations, insisting he is “absolutely” innocent of allegations stemming from an extramarital affair and efforts to help the woman’s husband find new work.
“As difficult as it is for me to ask you, I need your help to refute these charges and wage a successful legal defense,” the Nevada Republican wrote in a fundraising letter his office said was sent out late last week.
In seeking contributions of up to $10,000 to a defense fund, Ensign blamed a “liberal organization” for his legal woes after it filed an ethics complaint against him. The executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington disputed the description, saying the group was an equal opportunity watchdog.
CREW may lean left, but they have indeed been equal opportunity when it comes to holding Democrats as well as Republicans accountable for ethics/corruption scandals.
“Liberals” aren’t to blame for Ensign cheating on his wife with a campaign staffer and allegedly trying to pay off the staffer and her husband with hush money funneled through his parents.
Ensign is like one of the cartoon kids from “Family Circus,” pointing to the NOT ME gremlin for his actions instead of looking in the mirror and practicing the personal responsibility Republicans so often publicly preach.
As I’ve said before: Corruptocrats don’t deserve indulgence. They deserve a swift kick in the ass.
Flashback August 2, 2010: I repeat: John Ensign needs to go away
Flashback May 18, 2010: The GOP Crapweasel Club
Flashback July 9, 2009: Ensign continues to drag GOP down
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As a pinko Dem, I take full responsibility for John Ensign’s indiscretions by promoting a culture in which moral failures are accepted, if not encouraged, by society. It is the both means and the end of the Democratic agenda.
I’m curious however as to why Michelle Malkin has been so silent about model conservative David Vitter as he fights for his political life in a tough primary.
As with the rnc, john will not get one penny! FYI john, see blago for how he managed to deal with his issues. It is ‘who’ you know that helps.
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If God were to use a great flood to destroy the wicked in D.C., and tell the decent and just congressmen to build an ark so they could escape the waters safely………
….the ark would be towable behind a Prius.
*Do they name boat anchors?; If so, the HMS GOP could alternate between the Ensign Anchor and the McCain Anchor; Those 2 alone are going to sink the party!
Red (State Skeptic) Herring. Ignore this.
Hmmm, a virus that’s become self aware.
why are you so obsessed with who people have sex with? I wouldn’t care if it were a gay lover or any kind. He’s not asking to pay for it with tax dollars. He’s asking donations. You don’t have to give.
You really need to get over your moral high horse when it comes to who people have sex with. You make marriage sound like a prison sentence tantamount to slavery where people are owned.
If he’s being investigated on ethics charges, what about the wife and her husband, the campaign staffer – sounds to me like the staffer is nothing more than a pimp and his wife the….well, there are lots of words for that too. Extortion and blackmail are other words that also come to mind.
I say, hit up the people that helped you pay off the staffer, as this is all self-inflicted.
Yeah but he’s the lesser of two (or more) evils. Character doesn’t count. Principles don’t count. It’s all about which party wins. Just like football.
Good on ya Michelle. Congress has become a cesspool and there are as many GOP creeps as there are Dems. The idea that public officials should recieve quarter regarding infidelity because they are “just human” is repulsive and stupid. When you marry, you take an oath. When you are elected to office you take an oath. Are we to expect that someone who is too weak and perverted in character to honor the first vow will somehow have the honorand integrity to keep the second? It is non-sequetur. We have the right and obligation to hold public officials to a higher standard of conduct.
Hit the bricks Ensign. You are not qualified to hold office, and you are hindering the conservative cause.
Can we contribute to the Ensign Prosecution Fund?
We are all aware on this forum that progressives will cut corners on morality and break their own rules to look good (ie succeed) in life. It basically puts liberals in the same league as Iran and China.
Well, contrary to all the feel-good liberal media you encounter and undoubtedly embrace, Tea Party members are sick of BOTH parties. We’ve had upsets already in Utah and Kentucky. Not exactly havens for democrats.
OT but compelling. Hey Phil, banner headline on Drudge today:
WHAT BUDGET CRISES?
LA UNVEILS $578 MILLION SCHOOL
California has the 7th largest economy on the planet, yet is running $20+ Bil in the red? I have a theory as to why this is the case. Read the link.
California deserves precisely $0.00 in bailout money from the rest of us. Period. As a matter of fact, since there is more money in CA than any other state, should we not expect some assistance from the land of fruits and nuts?
Never mind. Rhetorical question.
RSS that is mighty white of you.
You can come over to my house and help me make naplam for the milita group anytime.
I’m with Michelle on this one. Marriage is Sacrament, a commitment to each other, not slavery. If Sen. Crapweasel Ensign wants to play Bill Klinton in cheap hotels, he should switch parties or resign.
Ooh! Ooh! Can I come too? I’ll make rice krispie treats!
A perfect example of, If you have to explain it to someone, they’ll never understand.
You are the man John, THE man. You are always most welcome!
Cheddar – you MUST PROVIDE A WARNING…I’m tired of calling the tech staff for yet another monitor.
Sorry, too late I suppose. (hands over a box of kleenex)