Why Can’t DOJ Investigate as Well as the Hapless Senate?

By: emptywheel Saturday May 14, 2011 5:25 am

There’s a lot to loathe about the current incarnation of the Senate, that elite club of millionaires where legislation goes to either get rewritten to serve corporate interests or killed. What does that say about DOJ, then, that the Senate is doing such a better job at investigating crimes? In just one month’s time the [...]

DC’s Newest Reality Show

By: emptywheel Sunday November 8, 2009 5:06 pm

Now that John Ensign has moved out of C Street, I propose a reality show to decide which moralizing hypocrite is best suited to replace him.

Why Is Hampton Embarrassing “the Family”?

By: emptywheel Friday July 10, 2009 10:27 am

Why is Doug Hampton–John Ensign’s cuckold–going to such lengths to embarrass “the Family.”

WaPo Discovers C Street

By: emptywheel Friday June 26, 2009 9:20 am

“The Family” is trying to pretend it’s not implicated in Mark Sanford’s and John Ensign’s moral hypocrisy.

Yes, an Adulterer WAS Living in “the Family’s” House; Yes, “teh Gays” Are Ruining Marriage

By: emptywheel Tuesday June 23, 2009 9:49 am

Moral scold Tom Coburn still doesn’t want to talk about the fact that he knew an adulterer was living with him in “the Family’s” home on C Street. And the rest of the moral scolds in the Senate telling us teh gays are ruining marriage were, nevertheless, very supportive of John Ensign when he returned yesterday.

Did Ensign’s Mistress Fail to Report Her Own Payoff?

By: emptywheel Tuesday June 23, 2009 9:23 am

From the time a bunch of “men who are close” to John Ensign confronted him about his affair until his mistress was fired, she did the books for his PAC. Is that why her reported payoff didn’t get reported to the FEC?

Did the Ensign Confrontation over His Affair Take Place at a “Family” Gathering?

By: emptywheel Friday June 19, 2009 12:05 pm

Tom Coburn and John Ensign both at least used to live at a home owned by the secretive “Family” organization. Is that where the confrontation about Ensign’s affair last year took place?

Fox’s Non-Denial Denial

By: emptywheel Friday June 19, 2009 10:35 am

Fox News says they didn’t receive the letter from John Ensign’s cuckold. By that, they mean they didn’t get it in the mail, they got it attached to an email.

Ensign’s Senate Colleagues Confronted Him about His Affair in February 2008

By: emptywheel Friday June 19, 2009 6:53 am

The Las Vegas Sun has posted the letter John Ensign’s cuckold, Doug Hampton, sent them not long before Ensign admitted his affair. In it, he reveals there was a confrontation over the affair in February 2008 that Tom Coburn attended.

The unethical behavior and immoral choice of Senator Ensign has been confronted by me and others on a number of occasions over this past year.

Uncle Toobz? Are You Obstructing Oversight of TARP?

By: emptywheel Monday November 24, 2008 4:55 pm

Some Republican Senator is trying to prevent anyone from conducting oversight of TARP funds.

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