John Ensign Resignation Timing Raises Questions

[Swede]

According to Mike Allen's Politico Playbook, sources say the Nevada Republican anticipated he could have faced questions about other women, including at least one additional staffer.

But Ensign is not entirely in the clear. It is likely the committee will move forward on the months-long investigation by issuing an embarrassing statement regarding the propriety of Ensign's behavior and the panel could even go so far as to recommend a criminal investigation. It would by a damning, but mostly symbolic, gesture because committee members do not have authority over federal investigators


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/23/john-ensign-resignation-investigation_n_852876.html

[DCKit]

1. If he were a Democrat, he'd be a rotting corpse, hung on a cross already. nt

[JohnnyRingo]

2. I believe that "Bloomin' Onion" was ready to be thrown in the fryer.

The petals would open up in the hot grease and we'd learn things about his rotten inner workings that all the Aussie Sauce in the world wouldn't have made palatable. There's no way the republican party could have served that up to its customers, and his next stop would have been criminal court.

I still think he'll see a court of law once testimony emerges from his girlfriend's parents. He's just avoiding giving them early evidence to use against him.

[Scuba]

3. Rachel explained it pretty well last night.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/

[cascadiance]

4. I think the timing of Hampton's indictment less than a month ago might be connected...

A note from the grapevine there pointed that out to me...