Just think what Ken Starr would do with this case.

US man ‘posed as his dead mother’

Surprisingly, it’s not Mitch McConnell.

I tend to agree with Josh Marshall, who commented that there’s likely more to come in this story. Both the woman involved and her husband were close friends of Ensign’s. I’m trying to imagine what else might be involved, or who, or what is still to come on this.

Ah, family values. So comforting.

President and Vice President of Hanky Panky, Rachel.

There’s more to this than meets the eye. Why the admission now?

You know, I wouldn’t be surprised if Ensign has been doing more un-Republican things than just adultery. After all, if it is just adultery, why did he resign his Senate leadership post? Did “Diapers” Vitter resign any leadership posts? No!!

Oh, wait, there’s more! And it involves a 19-year old boy, as so many GOP officeholder scandals do nowadays!

We knew there had to be a “paying off some 19-year-old boy” aspect of this dull John Ensign story, and here it is: A Republican committee paid Nevada Senator John Ensign’s illicit girlfriend’s son $5,400 during the SAME EXACT TIME Ensign and the lady were humping. This teen-ager was given the dirty GOP money for “research policy consulting,” which is even more bogus-sounding that our business expenses. ALSO: Our friends at the Las Vegas Gleaner inform us that Ensign was putting his peen into this lady before he was legally separated from his wife.

Oh, and Mrs Hampton’s salary DOUBLED in February 2008, two months after the affair began. Nice work if you can get it, ladies!

Any political representative that has packaged and sold himself to the voting public as a pro-family values, anti-gay, anti-womens rights, holier- than-thou sanctimonious tightass that gets busted cheating on his wife should be forced to resign for the crime of fraud.

And by “a Republican committee,” of course, Wonkette meant “the Republican committee led by John Ensign at the time.”

And even more!

Oh yeah. In other Ensign-related news, an Ensign crony of some sort says that the Do had at least one other affair. This week’s disclosure…

…resurrected questions about a two-week period in 2002, when Ensign abruptly dropped from public view. A person familiar with that episode, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said Tuesday the senator told a close associate the absence followed an earlier affair.

Just because Mitch hasn’t gotten caught doesn’t mean it isn’t actually happening.

Well, Ensign seems to think he should run for President. Perhaps it’s a qualifying lap for GOP hopefuls nowadays? McCain, Rudi, Newt. Makes Mitt and Sarah look kind of boring.

I read somewhere that the woman was supposedly the wife of his ‘friend.’ So what’s a little bit of money between friends, eh? Boy, if that’s the way he treats his friends, I wonder how he treats ‘not-friends’.

the husband of the woman…asked him for a substantial sum of money.

How polite of him…Ensign is lucky the guy didn’t decide to take it out of his hide. Call him up, arrange a private meeting, and….imagine the headline:

“US Senator in Affair with Married Woman Gets Ass Kicked by Angry Husband.”

Priceless.

because recently the staffer’s husband attempted to blackmail Ensign….. blackmail is a state and federal crime.

A sunbed-tanned stud like me gets tired of steak every night. – Family Values Senator Big John Ensignia (R, of course)

…Depending upon where the attempted extortion took place, it may be an interstate or wire crime as well…

Crimes? Repugs? Laws are not applicable to Repugs, doncha know? It says so right in the fine print.

You too can be a political consultant at the age of 19, according to the LA Times

The 19-year-old son of a woman who reportedly had an affair with Nevada Sen. John Ensign was being paid by the National Republican Senatorial Committee during the relationship, federal election records show.

Brandon Hampton, who shares an address with former Ensign staffers Doug and Cynthia Hampton, was paid $5,400 between March 2008 and August 2008.

The payments, for “research policy consulting,” ended the same month as the affair, which was said to begin in December 2007.

Amazing coincidence that these consultant payments ended at the same time that Ensign’s cheating did.

Yep. A limited hang-out; confess a little truth to try and settle the issue while keeping the larger secret. I wonder what it is?

but does that qualify for Miss Cindy McCain? It is well known that she has been living with a high school boyfriend for years, they were seen going to the gym and out to dinner, it was when McCain got the nomination that the affair was terminated until after the election.

The plot sickens…maybe Ensign was hoping that confessing to the affair would divert attention from these other, more potentially criminal matters?

Good evening firepups. Thanks Teddy.

I doubt Sarah will end up staying with Todd. Guy hasn’t got the kind of money she now craves…

Why is it when Republics commit adultery it’s just a lapse in judgement but when it’s a democrat the whole moral thread of america is being eroded?

Don’t you mean “suspended” instead of “terminated?”

And has it resumed? Or has she found another tennis instructor?

Isn’t there a name for that kind of work$$?

I will be curious to find out what the Senator’s monetary limit was: clearly he paid something for the affair by doubling his mistress’s salary and putting the son on the payroll. I wonder what demand the husband made that was too excessive?

hiya Betsy

Late Night is up!

Affairs are a lot like potato chips. Most people don’t have just one.

I knew John Ensign for many years when he dealt with dogs and cats.
I am 100% sure there is more to this than first impressions and reports.
Remembering the old quote “if it happens in Washington,DC it was No accident”.
Beyond the GOP facade which is not him as he is a very kind person.
He is the type of person that acted out the GOP routine and his subsequent behavior demonstrated severe discord.
My best wishes to him and perhaps this will restart his life, being a pit bull GOP senator is suicide to the body. Cheney’s medical state did not come about by being nice.

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The real story is that a VERY conservative 2012 Presidential contender, sitting US Senator and chairman of the Republicans’ Senate campaign committee used taxpayer/ campaign funds to pay a woman and her husband and son for sex with the woman, and laundered the money through the woman’s family, and the media are more concerned with David Letterman.
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