“I’ve been trying to do the best I can on all fronts. This time carved out for Jenny and the boys is awfully important in a family situation to put the genie back in the bottle.” — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, in response to a television reporter who caught him in the airport before leaving for yet another vacation (his fourth since his adulterous trip to Argentina).

The latest bombshell about the congressional Christianists’ residence and meeting house on Washington’s C Street comes in the form of a lawsuit in which the soon-to-be ex-wife of former Rep. Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) is suing his alleged longtime mistress, Elizabeth Creekmore Byrd, for alienation of affection.
Rep. Pickering bunked at the C Street house when he [...]

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I knew Stewart would have a field day with the Sanford tragedy but this exceeds expectations.

“I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night’s light – but hey, [...]

Check out the before and after itinerary fo the 2009 Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit. Before: Sanford. After: No Sanford.

Does it get any better with these Republicans? I can’t look away.
Now Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) says that in addition to “recharging” from his tough legislative session and not hiking the Appalachian trail, he slipped in a little extramarital affair while he was MIA. Which would explain why his wife wasn’t really into answering questions [...]

Yesterday, Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., the fourth-ranking member of the Senate leadership, admitted that he had an affair with a staffer, whose husband also worked for him.
Ensign, an evangelical Christian and vocal moralizer against gay marriage, was said to be planning to run for president in 2012. He will also be up for reelection to [...]

He has no credibility left.
— Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), quoted in the Las Vegas Sun in 1998, urging Bill Clinton to resign after he admitted an extramarital affair.

I deeply regret and am very sorry for my actions.
— Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), admitting he had an extramarital affair with a member of his campaign staff [...]

I was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
— Oakland County Commissioner Kim Capello (R), quoted by the “Oakland Press,” after police caught him in a sexual encounter with a 37-year-old woman who is not his wife

Come out, come out, wherever you closeted Republican hypocrites are! Oct. 11 is National Coming Out Day, a time to resolve to live openly as you are. And, in the case of some Republican politicians, to quit trying to make homosexuality go away by legislating it out of existence.
You can even find help at www.comeout.org. [...]