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Ensign’s time is running out
Thursday, June 24, 2010 | 2:01 a.m.
If anyone still doubts that Sen. John Ensign is in deep, deep trouble, Wednesday’s Hill newspaper cleared that up. “In depositions to the Senate Ethics Committee, staffers for Sen. John Ensign have said the Nevada Republican and his senior aides knew a one-year lobbying ban was being broken when they helped a former staffer set up a short-lived career on K Street, according to two sources close to the investigation,” the story began. So let’s get this straight: Aides to the senator have told Senate investigators — and surely will tell Justice Department folks, too — that Ensign knew Doug Hampton was violating a lobbying ban when he helped set him up in business. Ensign, who has shamefully tried to blame Hampton for all his problems after sleeping with Hampton’s wife and then using his parents to try to buy Hampton’s silence, must realize his time is nearly up. If not, we are going to see quite the nationally televised spectacle before the Senate Ethics Committee — unless Ensign gets indicted first.
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resignation/televised spectacle -/\_ Ensign is on the teeter totter of life. I bet he wishes he could snap his fingers & say Calgon take me away. What a comeuppance.
John Ensign is like an undead zombie trying to avoid the inevitable grave.
Since Ensign chose not to do the honorable thing and resign perhaps Nevada Democrats will attempt to chain his rotting corpse to crazy Angle and add even more stench to her vomit-inducing campaign.
poor poor johnny boy ensign...
granted every single advantage in life...
rode mommy and daddy's coat tails all the way to washington...
imagine the horror when he finally came to the realization that mommy and daddy's money couldn't fix his boo boo...
boo hoo hoo...
bye bye johnny boy...
you snot nosed spoiled punk...
Well, if he was smart, he would just resign. . .before his other "ladies" come forward to make it even messier. . .
There is good and bad that will come from this.
The good is Ensign stubbornly not resigning.
Now, we will be afforded the chance to watch him perp walked under arrest in handcuffs in a television sound byte very soon.
The bad thing is that after the above happens, some other creepy Republican will come forward and publicly apologize to Ensign for those bad Federal investigators arresting him and denying him the ability to turn the Senate into his own personal playground to do whatever he wants and screw whoever he wishes to screw (besides his wife).
In the Republican world, up is down, down is up and duck and dodge is the norm.
Did all the Republican apologists sleep in today?
"and then using his parents to try to buy Hampton's silence"
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Conspiracy to commit bribery. I could give a flip about lobbyist Senate "ethics" violations. This man has committed a crime.
The John Ensign saga is the "poster problem" for what's wrong in "Christian America" today.
As with the pedophile Catholic Priests' holocaust (where the innocense of 10's of Thousands - possibly 100's of thousands - of young boys was killed by sodomy) (and, it's not just in the Catholic Church) - where millions of parishioners who knew - beyond a shadow of a doubt - but chose to remain silent - the entirety of Christianity is being exposed for the "Whore that it IS".
Their handbook, The Holy Bible, tells them what to do - But do the Church Leaders do it?
NO! Of course not!
And why?
When Churches accross America begin to have "REAL" "Come-to-Jesus" meetings - we'll see a change.
P.S. to the churches - it comes under the "Cast the immoral brother from your assembly"!
Not "Turn the other cheek"!
Nor "Judge not"!
Until such time as you do this - would you please call yourselves by something else?
Like - The FourSquare Association?
Or - The FourSquare Organization?
How about - Four Friendly People In Every Pew? (or should that be peeyou?)
I guess it is going to be hello Senator Heller who will vote exactly the same way Ensign does.
John Ensigns exemplifies what is wrong with the Republicant party. You just can't trust them. Angle is totally out of touch with the state and the people. The best the Republicant party can come up with is this old female duddering rhino that is as radical as they come. The other worry is a smiling former judge that should have everybody shivering in their boots. This is another recall by the Republicant party to serve Nevada and the last thing that the state can endure. If you think that Gibbons was a flop Sandoval will show the state what a real failure is.
Gibbons can appoint himself since he has some free time coming up.
That's the real sad part of this story.
If Ensign ends up in jail and/or steps down, then an incredibly idiotic and washed up Governor will get to pick and choose yet another worthless and useless Senator who will probably be just as harebrained.
And Governor Gibbons is so vain, self centered and egotistical, he'll probably nominate himself.
In other words out with the old, and in with the...old?
I swear we can't catch a break here in Nevada.
We're like infested with creepy Republican politicians who are not only a laughing stock in local news, but in national media as well, proving to be of no use to Nevada other than stir up controversy and provide for the constituents here being totally embarrassed by their continual dumb antics.
If Gibbons appoints himself, good news. He will be easily defeated in 2012. Any Republican Jimbo appoints if Ensign has to go during his term will be a far rightwinger, anyway. At least Gibbons is unpopular -- very, very unpopular.
Why doesn't Ensign do something constructive. Massachusetts's has a program that gives children of active duty military who are killed in action a $40,000 scholarship. Why doesn't Nevada have such a program? And I think Ensign's parents and Ensign should be the first to contribute.
Is Ensign trying to improve his image by hanging with SA?
SA = Sturm Abteilung or Sharon Angle, take your pick.
Also, if Jesus turned water into wine, why does Angle think beer is bad?
Look's like it is about time for rENSIGN to play softball with the talk radio hacks in town.
Tidy up there, Jon, you're drooling.
Sure, Ensign's a dolt for not resigning. But that's okay. Now that he's on his way out, I hope he holds on to his seat until the very last possible moment. It's good insurance for the Dems, giving us time to identify and groom the person we want to put in his seat after him, and a form of insurance that buys us some time until we can install someone else in his place. And the best part about all this is that he's done it to himself and we'll have front row seats to the ethics showdown.
Yes, But at the end of the day it will be;
Senator Angle
Senator Dean Heller (2012 or sooner)
Rep. Heck
Gov. Sandoval
ONLY because the Democrats are too far left on the issues