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Republican Family Values 0

Raise high the ensign to salute those who loudly trumpet the sanctity of their values and wish to impose them on others, except the values they trumpet have nothing to do with their own values. From TPM:

The conclusion of the case is two years in the making. In 2009 Ensign admitted to having an affair with a former campaign aide, Cynthia Hampton, and then helping her husband, also a top aide, establish a brief lobbying career. As the ethics panel was wrapping up its case in late April, Ensign announced his retirement, effective May 3, the day before his sworn deposition was to begin, according to the ethics committee’s final report.

The probe focused on the great lengths — and potentially illegal steps — Ensign took to keep the affair quiet, including having his parents (wealthy Las Vegas casino owners) pay the Hamptons $96,000 in hush money.

The Senate Ethics Committee has referred the case to the Justice Department for prosecution.

This is most extraordinary.

Congressional Ethics Committees tend to bury ethics complaints amongst partisan maneuvering.

I watched the Young and the Restless for a couple of years when I was dating someone who liked that show (Victor is my hero). Y&R has nothing on this. Rachel Maddow summarizes the results of the Committee’s investigation:

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