They're all villains for participating in illicit behavior. Hampton obviously forgave his wife or he would no longer be with her, so one has to ask why he brings this out now and why he did not bring it out while it was going on?

The obvious answer is money or to stop Ensign from succeeding in going into higher office. But then the exact same questions can be asked for that situation as well.

So why now, Doug?

DouglasDemocrat,

Without any evidence? Care to look up how many mistresses JKF had? It was at least seven...

And brother Ted did leave a young woman to drown, and received only a slap on the wrist -- a two month suspended sentence.

For you to call me out for NO evidence when I certainly do have some kinda damages your credibility, DouglasD. BTW, I was trying to make a point that both sides have bad apples because this article seemed to point fingers only at the Repub side. BTW, I am NOT a Dem or a Repub, but an Independent who has NEVER voted strict party lines.

As for this current administration, I have my own opinion of them and their actions so far seem to bear out that opinion. If you wish wear rose-colored glasses and think they're all a bunch of saviours, have at it!

It amuses me when people characterize any political party by a few of its bad apples.

If one cares to dig deeply enough there are plenty of bad apples in both the Democratic and the Republican parties. At least Ensign told the truth once confronted by blackmail, and I find it curious he is being so ostracized when prominent Dems have done so much worse, including multiple mistresses and even murder (and have gotten away with it, btw!)

As for the current Democratic administration, I have never seen more corrupt, lying, cheating bushels of bad apples (very plural!) in all my days (and I'm no naive child.) A childish president, an evil witch, and a power hungry bunch of senators and representatives who just push through whatever their childish leader wants without even reading it. The American people are getting the very short end of the stick this time around and I wonder if there will even be a USA by the time they get done!

How can you report this event as 'sold out?' In the pic I saw there were quite a few empty seats with folks spread out to try to show more people. Tickets were even being given away on one website.

Of course the Sun is a wee bit biased, is it not?

Reid is one head of a vicious hydra devoted to bringing this country to its knees to bow before a dictator type leader. This hydra must be stopped before we, the people, have no freedoms left at all.

Obama is great at campaigning but not so good at actually performing the job he's elected to do. Just check out his Senate record: many of the bills he supposedly brought forth were actually presented by others with his name added. I am sick and tired to the adulation shown this sham and his compadres.

BTW, Rocco and you other liberals: I'm not a Repub (I'm an Independent) and I don't listen to Hannity, etc. I simply have a brain to think for myself and do research on my own. I've found way more than I needed to know to NOT vote for O and Company, nor blindly suffer what they dish out!

We as a people and as a nation have more than enough to worry about with this 'recession' and all its accoutrements without obsessing about the past. We cannot change it. Obama and company are doing more than enough damage to this country NOW, and more of us should worry about THAT.

All I see and hear and read on an almost daily basis is more jobs lost and more debt piled on us. I want to know where the thousands of jobs are we have been promised and where the changes are that will make us stronger and better as a nation. Where is the transparency O promised? It seems to be all focused on the past and none of it on the present, where O promised it would be. We're being slowly taxed to death and our government seems poised to take over public sectors they should not be involved in, and we are not informed of it until AFTER it happens. Scary stuff!

So Bush had a 'propaganda' group to create a good image. So what?

It's not like the entire MSM didn't worship at the Obamessiah's feet during the entire campaign process, and like it does not continue to do so now.

Let's talk about all the tax cheaters and liars associated with the Obama administration...I don't see any difference or any change from any previous administration. Bush has been a whipping boy long enough. He's gone and now Obama has to stand on his own feet and take the blame for what's going wrong, and start showing that 'transparency' he promised.

The MSM seems to think the Democrats have never done anything wrong, and that everything wrong with this country is the fault of the Repubs. Does anyone remember the Dems practically controlled Congress the last two years of the Bush administration? Does anyone remember the Repubs tried to avoid the housing downfall and the Dems wouldn't have any part of suggested regulations?

Let's try looking at both sides rather than just blaming the convenient whipping boy.

BTW, I'm NOT a Repub. I'm a stauch Independent who votes for the person and his/her achievements, not for the party!

I'm extremely happy someone is finally doing something about ACORN and its habit of causing voter fraud by its use of quotas. This 'organization' should be investigated and found guilty in every state in which it operates, then made to disband. Many of us out here e-mailed, wrote, or called our congresspeople to voice our concerns during the primaries and then the election process.

That the Las Vegas ACORN operatives vigorously deny any wrongdoing is a joke! They all know what goes on. During this election process their push was to elect the male Democratic candidate at all costs.

ACORN is also guilty of helping to cause the housing bust by coercing banks into lending money to folks they knew would never be able to repay their loans.

ACORN SHOULD BE DISBANDED AND NEVER PERMITTED TO OPERATE AGAIN!

Sen. Arlen Specter is a prime example of why there should be no career politicians.

Career politicians have no backbone when it comes to standing for the principles by which they were elected and for which they stand. Instead it becomes a matter of bending their will to whatever will save their jobs at any cost. We have no principled politicians any more. Instead we have those who are elected by monied backers and party cronies whether they are the best to do the job or not (and it's most often NOT!)

I am certain such sway-in-the-wind politicians as Specter will not be missed by a party which was not really theirs to begin with. If the Dems want such folks, let them have them. After all, they have quite a few of that ilk now!

BTW, I do not consider myself a Republican; I am a stauch Independent who has never voted along party lines UNTIL the 2008 elections. I normally vote for the best candidate to do the job, not because they belong to one party or another. However, the debacle presented by the Democratic party during the 2008 primaries swayed me to vote the other way. Greed, lack of any discernible qualifications, misogyny, media bias, and the bunch of bull spewed by the Dems lost my vote for sure. I'm not certain I can ever vote for a Democrat again; I'll have to wait and see.

poker_ray, good comment! Same for Linda in Vegas. I could not agree more.

While I don't believe our president should be arrogant, I do believe he should stand up for the best interests of our country, and I am not all all certain Obama does. He is a great orator (with a teleprompter, that is) and I believe that is precisely why the upper echelon Dems and their monied cronies picked him out of obscurity to run for president. Nobody can convince me it was because of his qualifications. Now we're stuck with a narcissist who craves adulation and popularity like a vampire craves blood...

You must stay up all night to find items you can relate to Republicans in any remote way to which you can write a caustic reply.

Hey, maybe that's why you cannot rest!!!