Mating with  a cuddlefish is a strange affair, Nova (7/26/09--up here anyway)

 

Charley Brown: If I only knew then what I know now.

Charley Brown: If I only knew then what I know now.

Charley Brown: If I only knew then what I know now.

Lucy:  Why, what do you know now?

Tennessee State Senator Paul Stanley admitted to having a "sexual relationship" with his 22-year-old intern to a state investigator, Talking Points Memo reports. According to the sworn affidavit, Stanley said he took provocative photos of the intern during their affair. The intern's boyfriend was attempting to blackmail Stanley with the photos for $10,000. The senator eventually went to the police, and the boyfriend has been charged with attempted extortion. Stanley, a conservative Republican, promotes abstinence before marriage. (Daily Beast referring to TPM of course)

You know I blog everyday, mostly cause I have no life. Except here of course.

If you were dumb enough to waste your time you could find some real gems of mine. Like when I went on and on about Judgment at Nuremberg and how Lancaster played a German Intellectual during WWII instead of being a judge.

Or when I accused Quinn of fathering a sheep-kid.  I had the picture of the event but I lost it. Never accuse unless you have the proof.

But I thought since it was Sunday Night and I did not feel like going into the Bereshit today, that I would find some quotes from some of my favorite characters. 

I thought I would start with some recent examples from our holy roller class.

 

Senator John (the Saint) Ensign:

 

"There are times, I think, in political life that you have opportunities to do things, and I think that we are at such a time right now."

 

 Washington Post, 1999: Christian politicians and evangelical leaders commonly follow an unspoken rule not to meet behind closed doors with women staff members or travel alone with them. The Rev. Billy Graham, for example, has famously refused to be alone in a room with any woman except his wife since he married her in the 1940s. Rep. Steve Largent [R-OK], a Christian conservative, insists a male staff member is present whenever he meets with a woman, his spokesman said. John Ensign, who is running for senate in Nevada will not be alone in a car with a woman.

on Larry Craig's story: "There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. ... And having these kinds of things happen, whether it's a Republican or Democratic senator -- we certainly have had plenty of Democratic scandals in the past -- we need people who are in office who will hold themselves to a little higher standard."

U.S. Senate: "I believe that marriage should be defined as that between one man and one woman. You want to do what is ideal for children and all of the studies show that the ideal for children is to be in a household with a father and a mother."  http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2009/06/17/its-not-his-affair-its-his-bs/

 

 

Well not much to add here except the man sure took advantage of his opportunities.

 

But I cannot let him go that easily:

 

"I believe that marriage should be defined as that between one man and one woman. You want to do what is ideal for children and all of the studies show that the ideal for children is to be in a household with a father and a mother." [4/19/09]

"Mr. President, I rise today to speak on a topic that is very important. That is the preservation of the most important structure in our society." [7/13/04]  http://www.usnews.com/blogs/erbe/2009/06/17/john-ensign-defender-of-marriage--except-his-own.html

Finally, the real reason I really hate this guy:

In 1998, while running for Nevada's Senate seat against Harry Reid, Ensign called on President Clinton to resign in light of his admitted affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky:

"I came to that conclusion recently, and frankly it's because of what he put his whole Cabinet through and what he has put the country through," Ensign said Thursday, becoming the first member of the Nevada delegation to call for Clinton to quit. "He has no credibility left."http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/16/ensign-affair/

Governor Sanford is especially fun:

While serving as a U.S. congressman, Sanford was incredibly critical of his colleagues' marital misdeeds, including the affairs of former congressman Bob Livingston and President Bill Clinton:

"The bottom line, though, is I am sure there will be a lot of legalistic explanations pointing out that the president lied under oath. His situation was not under oath. The bottom line, though, is he still lied. He lied under a different oath, and that is the oath to his wife. So it's got to be taken very, very seriously." [Sanford on Livingston, CNN, 12/18/98]

 "I think it would be much better for the country and for him personally (to resign). I come from the business side. If you had a chairman or president in the business world facing these allegations, he'd be gone." [Sanford on Clinton, The Post and Courier, 9/12/98]

Sanford has also been an opponent of same-sex marriage, saying in 2004, "As Jenny and I are the parents of four little boys, we've always taught our kids that marriage was something between a man and a woman." [The Post and Courier, 2/11/04]  http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/24/sanford-affair/

THE NEWT

So much fodder and so little time. Ooooooooooooh. What is a mother to do?  Well let us start with sex since that is the theme of this drivel.

 

In 1998, Newt Gingrich, leaving a meeting at the Oval Office, said to Clinton: "Mr. President, we are going to run you out of town." In about a year, it was Gingrich out of a job, not the president. "  http://thinkexist.com/quotes/newt_gingrich/

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group."The honest answer is yes," Gingrich, a potential 2008 Republican presidential candidate, said in an interview with Focus on the Family founder James Dobson to be aired Friday, according to a transcript provided to The Associated Press. "There are times that I have fallen short of my own standards. There's certainly times when I've fallen short of God's standards." http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258001,00.html

"We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something."

 

"The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument."

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but a lousy"  http://thinkexist.com/quotes/newt_gingrich/

 

"I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much."

"If combat means living in a ditch, females have 
biological problems staying in a ditch for 
thirty days because they get infections and 
they don't have upper body strength. mean, 
some do, but they're relatively rare. 
On the other hand, men are basically little 
piglets, you drop them in the ditch, they roll
around in it, doesn't matter, you know. 

 

Okay, that is enough silliness. Just wanted to get some things off my chest, especially against those who impeached my president.