Ensign "mans up" and resigns leadership postion

[Perky]

Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) has resigned as the chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, quitting his leadership post the day after he announced he had an extramarital affair.


“He’s accepted responsibility for his actions and apologized to his family and constituents,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a statement provided to POLITICO. “He offered, and I accepted, his resignation as chairman of the Policy Committee.”


The swift movement by Republicans – with Ensign’s consent – to clear him out of Senate leadership is a sign that the party wants nothing to do with another sex scandal as it tries to slow down the massive Obama agenda and focus on health care, energy and other pressing issues. Ensign has said he will remain focused on his Senate duties representing Nevada, but his days as a rising star in GOP politics are clearly done.



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23841.html#ixzz0IiH4HALr&C

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Gave up a major steppingstone to higher office

Bot Foley, Not Vitter, not Spitzer. Not Craig. Not even Bubba got out of the way so fast.

ANd to cut off the argument before it occurs. He should not have to resign the Senate IMHO because there but for the grace of whatever god you believe in, goes evey other senator. Yes he is a hypocrite. but they all are hypocrites.

[BOSSHOG]

1. I'm confused

Why would the republicans care that one of their own was fucking around? And why is ensigns rising star in the party of integrity in danger? Its as if Al Capone fired a bank robber.

[RoadRage]

2. Because they're now losing!!

See, everything changes when your party gets their ass kicked in 2 elections back-to-back, and things are looking worse going forward.

When you claim to be the party of "morals" but then throw them to the wind for 8+ years, and the voters figure it out and vote you out because of it, and you now want to again become the "party of morals" then you actually have to ACT like the party of "morals" while you're not actually in power.

If they were currently in power - or ever were to get into power again, that would of course all change.

And, of course they don't see the writing on the wall which is "THE FUCKING COUNTRY DOESN'T WANT A GOD DAMN PARTY DICTATING IT'S MORALS IN THE FIRST PLACE"... but well, that one they can figure out on their own.

:hi:

[BOSSHOG]

6. But doesn't displays of adultery and mendacity

titillate their base? :hi:

They are a chuckle to watch!

[RoadRage]

16. Absolutely...

They just prefer it when our side does it... that's all. ;)

[Perky]

4. Dunno.... butmost politicians would not do what he has done

Gave up a major steppingstone to higher office

Bot Foley, Not Vitter, not Spitzer. Not Craig. Not even Bubba got out of the way so fast.

ANd to cut off the argument before it occurs. He should not have to resign the Senate IMHO.

[SuperTrouper]

12. Then Spitzer should have stayed as NY Governor, right?

[Perky]

15. He could have survived

IMHO

[rubberducky]

8. No,It`s that gawwwd and his wife(who depends on his financial support)

FORGIVE him!! Nothing to see here, folks, move along.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Not quite

He's still a senator.

[Perky]

7. Do we REALLY wnat to hold Senate Adulters to that standard?

[Xipe Totec]

13. Senate hypocrites.

If he runs on a pro-adultery platform and wins, he can stay.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. resigns a LEADERSHIP POSITION, but keeps his senate seat?

that is not what he demanded of Clinton. Gotta love the hypocrisy.

[RoadRage]

17. Hopefully the voters & a nice primary opponent will take care of the senate seat soon..

is he up again in '10 or '14?

[tularetom]

9. I'll give him credit for that

And it does serve to offset some of his hypocrisy that he stepped down so readily.

BTW, did your spell checker take a dump? I cannot make ANY sense out of the last paragraph of your post.

[Cha]

18. LOL..

"BTW, did your spell checker take a dump?"

Maybe that's why he did step down so Fast? Because his past statements would just lead to a bunch of rehashing the hypocricy(in Nevada anyway, I can't see the cable media doing him harm)..and the pukes don't even need that right now.

[jobycom]

10. Nobody admits to an affair and resigns high office unless they are hiding something bigger.

Or there is a bigger strategy going on. Something's happening here that we haven't seen yet.

[opihimoimoi]

11. Its the Gary Hart Syndrome....Ensign should resign to help the GOP cleanse itself

He is now a POS in the Pub Ranks...smelly to boot.

[zulchzulu]

14. LOL! John REsign!

Asshat!

[nomorenomore08]

19. Kind of funny that this guy is Harry Reid's counterpart.

In the sense that he displayed bigger stones here than Reid ever will...

[Bucky]

20. We're just one filandering Republican away from having a Senate that truly represents America.

My money's on Mel Martinez, but Mitch McConnell could be a real dark horse.

[old mark]

21. This indicates to me that there is lots more to this story than we are hearing...

For a GOP Senator to "accept personal responsibility" for an "affair" means he must have been on heroin and fucking chickens in his office, and somebody taped it.

If we still had real reporters, they would be hounding this bastard 24-7 till he cracked.

I'm waiting....

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