Kyl refuses to defend Ensign; Boxer acknowledges ethics investigation
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The New York Times revealed that Sen. John Ensign may have ignored laws when giving preferential treatment to a lobbyist that was the husband of his former lover. Fellow Republican Senator Jon Kyl refused to defend Ensign when given a chance Sunday.
Another Republican Senator, Tom Coburn, was caught lying about his role in negotiating payments to the family of Ensign's mistress.
Sen. Barbara Boxer confirmed that the Senate Ethic Committee had opened an investigation into Ensign's actions. "We will look at all aspects of this case, as we do whenever there is a case before us, and try to get to the bottom of it as quickly as we can in fairness to all," Boxer told CNN's John King.
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Wingnut backlash followed by Kyl flip-flop in 3....2....1....
Does this mean The Family's C Street house will have to take out the glory hole that's been there since 1783?
Real democrats have become distinct in our country...
Yes the democrats as they have before , will that a LOOK - SEE and do nothing..
When are we going to get serious about funding , campaigning and supporting candidates to run against these democrats in the primary elections.
We have become a worthless as Obama , Emanuel and the democrats with the BS of switch and bait..
They can increase the funding or the war without any debate , they can give OUR money to the banking industry with no oversight with no real substance, they can give the wealth welfare tax cuts with no debate..
Yet when it comes to the American citizens which they took a credit card out in our name to pay for these give a ways , debate and say they can not pass any legislations which helps Americans WITH THEIR OWN MONEY>>
When in the h... are we going to wakeup and smell the s... all around us coming from these corporate w....s. The time is now to stop these corporate criminals we call elected officials..
Pelosi on Impeachment off the table...
Waxman on all the criminal charges he was going to bring about the criminals in the Bush Administration.
Leahy Says March 2007... He’ll Subpoena Rove, Discusses Potential Crimes Involved In Attorney Purge.
John Conyers (D-MI) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), have said that Congress should continue to investigate Bush’s torture policies regardless of Obama’s plans.
Carl Levin (D-Detroit) announced Vice President Dick Cheney needs to be investigated for signing off on torture. And he plans to pressure Barack Obama to do just that.
Ms. Feinstein, chair of Intelligence Committee in January, has been among the most outspoken critics in Congress of the Bush administration’s embrace of harsh interrogation methods, including waterboarding, which was prosecuted as a war crime by the United States after World War II.
Democrats in Congress debated how to rein in Bush's increasingly unlimited expenditures for the Iraq war without seeming to betray our troops in the field. But the wily Bush, presenting them with a false dichotomy, has raised the bar by demanding even more money and authority to interdict Syria and Iran. ( Democrats are as spineless as a snake)...
Senate Majority Harry Reid said it would be "very unwise" to have an independent commission to investigate the CIA's interrogations procedures without having Congress conduct its own inquiry first.
Naw - that stays. On C Street, it's not what you know, it's who you
knowblow.ever happened to ,
What happens in vegas stays in vegas , my bad , Ensign tried just that .
In this case, what happens in Vegas only stays in Vegas if that's where you end up burying the bodies.
didnt know ya have to bury them too ! .
...come to the defense of Ensign by bring up ACORN.
If his unethical and sleazy GOP colleagues are bailing on him.
Does the Senate have the ability to restrict the amount of its time it spends investigating its members and allocate time towards issues of actual governance?
An ethics committee for senator's shenanigans should not be made up of their fellow senators. Its like asking someone to suck their own dick.
At some point, there has to come a time when even because that brethren is a fellow wingnut, some things cannot be defended, even by his fellows.
Don't know for sure, but THIS might be one of them.
Well, I don't like to brag.....
You Devil You!
Is that you need knee high tube socks.
welllllll!
Only when it's cold.
And when I'm peeing in the river from a bridge......only when it's deep.
ooppsss.:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVZdVlWzWP0
you're moving to California when???..............:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y9dkCJYB8M
Need to go back...stuck back in Texas, which is just not what it used to be. :(
Isn’t this normal behavior for a republican’t?
as they scurry away from the USS Ensign.
hahahahaha... senate 'ethics' investigation... what a farce.
Time will tell.
They need to start a new afternoon soap opera
Washington DC-AC.
Or even
Sexual Congress
Congress Carnival would sound too much like a cartoon show.
soap operas have nothing on this bunch of crooks and liars!!
As The Beltway Churns
I thought that was my stomach.
The Daze of our Lives.
Dust bowl economics .
Boxer shorts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2gOQ8pL6Tk
the right has been protecting ensign from the media. they decided to sacrifice sanford instead. ensign is a full-time hypocrite.
I pretty clearly recall Kyl unequivocally saying Tom Delay was innocent at the time even though it was actually commenting on a pending criminal case. So if he's not willing to even give Ensign a teensy bit of cover, that's significant.
Do you suppose they are distancing themselves from Ensign because it will soon come out that he was not just doing the wife... but also the HUSBAND? Shades of Larry Craig, Batman!
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