Nevada's Republican Senator John Ensign reminds his colleagues to remember their "solemn oath" while voting on health care reform.
Anyone with half a brain will recall that "solemn oaths" mean nothing to John Ensign. Earlier this year Ensign admitted to having an extra marital affair with a friend's wife who also just happened to be one of his staffers. After his friend-- and husband of his raunchy lover-- discovered the affair the very ethical and solemn oath senator got the husband a high paying lobbying job and also hired their teenage son as a "political adviser," to be paid for by campaign contributions from lobbying firms like the husband's new place of employment. These are solemn oaths John Ensign is so determined to uphold.
I know we all wish the Ensign drama ended there. But unfortanely for the party that preaches moral values and principles, Ensign's keeps going. It gets so messed up and so "solemn oathy" that Ensign's parents had to pay off his mistress and her family with $96,000 to keep them from going public. I'm not sure what's sadder. Standing on the Senate Floor talking about "solemn oaths" or the fact your elderly parents had to pay off your hump buddy.
Anyways, none of us are supposed to bring any of that up. We are all just supposed to forget about the track record of GOP moral values and principles, oh and don't forget their 40 year track record on fiscal responsibility too, and heed Ensign's insistence that everyone else remember their "solemn oaths." Wheeee!!!
