Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009 | 2 a.m.
News that Sen. John Ensign misled his top political operative so he could assuage his guilt and push his lover’s husband into a sinecure should come as no surprise. But what are the implications of the revelations in e-mails that top officials of the National Republican Senatorial Committee knew of the affair in the middle of the 2008 campaign season and were expected to help Ensign cover it up, perhaps unwittingly, by providing a safe haven for the cuckolded husband? “So, not only did ... Ensign do everything he did, but he brought the NRSC into it, effectively making Ensign’s infidelity and cover-up the problem of every Republican U.S. senator and every donor to the NRSC,” exclaimed a Huffington Post writer. Indeed.
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