"Put your pants on and go home!"

[CTyankee]

It seems that Sen. Tom Coburn and another friend of Sen. Ensign tried an intervention on the latter to get him to stop seeing his paramour, Cindy Hampton...

This, from the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee report, just out:

"During the meeting with Coburn and others, Ensign agreed to write a letter ending the affair with Cindy Hampton - but the report says he quickly called his mistress and told her to ignore the letter.

Two days after the intervention - which took place on Valentine's Day in 2008 - Ensign's car was spotted in the parking lot of a hotel, as was Ms. Hampton's car.

One of the friends of Ensign called him on the phone and said, "I know exactly where you are. I know exactly what you are doing. Put your pants on and go home."

More details at this (delicious) link: http://blogs.ajc.com/jamie-dupree-washington-insider/2011/05/12/put-your-pants-on-and-go-home/?cxntfid=blogs_jamie_dupree_washington_insider

Rachel Maddow had delicious stuff in her report today on Andrea Mitchell's show...

Can't wait to see this in Tweety's "sideshow" segment on Hardball!

[wryter2000]

1. I saw it on Rachel last night

:wow: That bastard. That Fing bastard.

[blogslut]

2. If you have broadband

Here is Rachel's most excellent segment from last night:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#43016334

[gratuitous]

3. Oh if I had a dime for every time I've heard that

But then, I'm not a U.S. Senator.

[Yavin4]

6. If I Had A Nickel for every time I've heard that in Church

I'd be rich. I keep telling them, "God has no problem with me worshipping him in comfort."

[malaise]

4. This is huge!

http://ethics.senate.gov/downloads/pdffiles/Public%20Report_Preliminary%20Inquiry%20into%20the%20matter%20of%20Sen%20Ensign.pdf
The Report

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#43016334
Rachel from last night

[W_HAMILTON]

5. You left out the best part!

Morning Joe said that after he was told, "put your pants on and go home," he responded by saying (paraphrasing), "but I love her!"

lol

[malaise]

10. Read the report

I can't wait for the movie :rofl:

[Yavin4]

34. Yeah, I Used That Line with the Cops

Didn't work for me either.

[EFerrari]

7. Darn! I thought this was the Friday challenge!

:yoiks:

[elleng]

12. HAHAHAHA!!!

[EFerrari]

17. LOL!

:)

[CTyankee]

18. that lady has a few extra vertebrae...

:rofl:

[Hissyspit]

21. Deliberate on Ingres' part.

Neo-Classicist principles taken to absurd extreme.

[CTyankee]

22. a real oddity...

[Hissyspit]

23. Well, he was squishing the space flatter to look more like a Greek bas relief.

Extreme Classicism. Mostly just silly, but ironically actually pointing to 20th-century painting concerns of flattening out space. So: "Neo" and "Classicism."

My understanding is plenty of other neo-classicists thought it was weird, too.

I was gonna ask where the Friday Challenge is, but I see you've already answered the question.

[CTyankee]

27. Oh, don't worry. I will tease your art loving brain some more this afternoon!

See ya!:hi:

[Danascot]

48. Obviously shopped

nt

[CTyankee]

15. Keep your pants on!

Challenge will be comin' up at about 5 pm...

[elleng]

24. See you soon!!!

:hi:

[CTyankee]

28. yup!

[Yavin4]

8. I Will Never Again Underestimate Republican Sleaze

Ensign makes Newt's affair look tame.

[Beacool]

16. I think that Edwards topped them all.

And he was a Democrat......

:(

[Yavin4]

30. Edwards Was Awful, But Ensign's Is Far Worse

Ensign made his parents committ perjury. Ensign literally forced himself on the woman that he had an affair with.

[CTyankee]

32. I dunno. What Edwards did to Elizabeth, esp. considering her health, was pretty awful.

But I'll bet that Ensign would've done worse, given the same set of circumstances...that guy is unmitigated garbage...

[Yavin4]

33. At Least Edwards' Affair Was Consensual

The woman that Ensign had an affair was his employee. In addition, her husband was also his employee. The family was entirely dependent on Ensign. She didn't want the affair, but Ensign badgered her into it.

Ensign was far worse.

[CTyankee]

37. He sure is!

It's kinda funny that it takes something like this Ensign creep to make Edwards look good!

[LLStarks]

9. Ensign was looking like a fool with pants on the ground. nt

[CTyankee]

20. I haven't had this much fun since I read about Spitzer's black socks!

I'm still trying to bleach my brain of THAT image...

I must say just the image of Ensign's white, pasty, bare butt and with his pants around his ankles makes my head hurt a bit...

[elleng]

11. 'I can't! I love her!'

WHAT CRAP!

[Beacool]

13. Ahhhh, men................

Why is it that when the little head does the thinking it seems to stop the oxygen flow to the big head? How many men have self destroyed due to their sexual peccadillos?

:eyes:

[Hissyspit]

19. Why is it that society acts so hypocritically about it?

A guy likes to wear diapers? SHOCK! Many people have a hard time staying monogamous ? SHOCK! Republicans are hypocrites about family values? SHOCK!

[Beacool]

45. It harks back to our puritanical roots.

What gets to me is that usually some of the biggest critics are the ones who are doing far worse things than the people they point the finger at so self righteously.

x(

[malaise]

26. There's a good joke on this line

Man with hard dick have soft head

[Beacool]

44. Good one!!

:7

[Hissyspit]

14. Twitter Hashtag: #putyourpantsonandgohome

[CTyankee]

25. what is a twitter hashtag?

[Hissyspit]

29. If you put a hashtag in your Tweet...

when you send a message on Twitter using your account with 140 characters or less, it gets collected with all other Twitter posts with the same hashtag, so that people can find it, it can be tracked as a "trending" popular topic, etc.

"If you Tweet with a hashtag on a public account, anyone who does a search for that hashtag may find your Tweet."

http://support.twitter.com/entries/49309-what-are-hashtags-symbols

"A hash tag is simply a way for people to search for tweets that have a common topic. For example, if you search on #LOST (or #Lost or #lost, because it's not case-sensitive), you'll get a list of tweets related to the TV show. What you won't get are tweets that say 'I lost my wallet yesterday' because "lost" isn't preceded by the hash tag."

http://www.techforluddites.com/2009/02/the-twitter-hash-tag-what-is-it-and-how-do-you-use-it.html

[CTyankee]

31. hmm, I was going to ask "why would I do that?" but maybe I can figure out

the answer...

[malaise]

35. Bashir is bashing the ReTHUG lady

right now :popcorn:

[Ichingcarpenter]

36. I hope they really don't have the photos on this one

but ..... hey you never know.

[CTyankee]

38. Don't you want to see the "evidence"?

THAT would be interesting...

[Danascot]

49. Would that be considered

the smoking gun?

[GeorgeGist]

39. Keep your eye ...

on the balls.

[pinboy3niner]

40. Friday Challenge theme: 'Men with pants around ankles'?

I certainly hope NOT!1!! :evilgrin:

[CTyankee]

41. No pants around ankles! I don't think I've even SEEN an artwork like that!

nt

[pinboy3niner]

42. Whew!

I've seen your challenge thread today, CTyankee--another great job! :toast:

[CTyankee]

43. Thanks. Come back and guess again!

[Liberal_in_LA]

46. hee

[sabrina 1]

47. What makes me worry more about this country than politicians

having affairs, is that the are so dumb. Eg, he KNEW people were watching him, yet both he and she drove their personal and apparently very recognizable cars to their love nest and left them in the parking lot like a sign saying 'we are here'.

Was there no other way to get there to avoid leaving the evidence in the parking lot?

Same thing with politicians writing emails that they should know can be retrieved, but how many times now have they been caught because of that?

But yet, these are best and brightest? We depend on them to govern this country? Surely there are smarter people in this country?

It does explain why were are in the mess we are in though.

[woo me with science]

50. What's the matter with all you people?

You got a problem with love??????

:rofl:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

51. When am I going to get my GOP Senator Real World reality show dammit?

Because I would watch the shit out of that.