1

Oh happy day! Happy happy!

Yeesh.

2 But but but I thought that having affairs with a staffer was a good thing!  At least that's what NOW told me about Lewinsky.

Seriously, is it that difficult to keep your pants zipped if you're a politician?  Really?

3 Is she hot?

4 Where do these guys find the time and energy?  Being a Congressman must be an easy job.  Good riddance. Don't let the door hit you.

5 Excellent - another one bites the dust.  A chance for that district to redeem itself.  Let the politics of personal destruction do their great work!  The libtards do it to us all the time - it is well that they should take some of their own medicine.

6 Political types, rock stars, sports stars... same. Everywhere.

7 5 Excellent - another one bites the dust. A chance for that district to redeem itself. Let the politics of personal destruction do their great work! The libtards do it to us all the time - it is well that they should take some of their own medicine. Posted by: Reactionary at May 18, 2010 10:57 AM (xUM1Q) I bet I can guess your verbal SAT score within +/- 25 points.

8 Seriously, is it that difficult to keep your pants zipped if you're a politician?  Really?

I can't even get a sheet over my head nowadays without help.

9

Worthless fucks like Souder should lock themselves in their office and set it on fire.  And take that moonfaced twat Mark Sanford with them.

10

Not only am I thankful for a loving family but for a loving God."

STFU  - I hate you.

11

Interesting timing.

So does this mean that they will have to spend a lot of money now to have a special election in about three months, just in time for the winner to be sworn in for the late summer / fall election recess, only to have to have another election three months after that?

12 You guys were saying on the other thread "but why today?  That is the question.

I mean if you have something on someone ....can you make it come out whenever you want?   Wonder if all those DC elected movers and shakers are living under a cloud of fear of what is in their closets?

13 I do find the hyperventilating over this sort of thing overwrought. Politicians have been lying, cheating, backstabbing n'e'er-do-wells for most of recorded human history. An affair with a staffer? Back in the supposedly stuffed-shirt days of the Republic, this would barely have raised an eyebrow. It was common for Senators and Representatives to install their mistresses into apartments in D.C. for convenience's sake; there were several rooming-houses for "single young ladies" that catered to exactly this clientele. It just bemuses me in this supposedly sexually-liberated age that people still freak out so badly about sexual affairs. Is he an asshole for doing it? Indubitably. But I find the outrage over it, as I said before, rather overwrought. If you gathered together all elected officials into a group, I'll bet you money that more than 50% of them (and not all men by any means) have had extramarital affairs. As long as they aren't crooked and show up for work in the morning, I don't give a shit.

14 They can't keep their pie-holes shut and/or their pants on. And now, in the Age of the Unicorn King, they are intimately involved in every single freaking aspect of our lives. Totally awesome.

15 Souder was engaged in a "mutual relationship" instead of the usual one where he stuck his hand in pants and just pretended.

16 I don't know how much effect these marital infidelity events will have in the general election. The populace is much disturbed over issues they consider more important. I do believe that this crap will not be foremost in the voters' minds - much to the Lefty media's dismay.

17 Hey, they named his party affiliation in the second paragraph! Oh right, he's a Republican.

18

Not only am I thankful for a loving family but for a loving God.

Yes, the late Charlie Wilson was a Dem, but he made the promise that he would never blame alcohol or suddenly find Jesus.

Meh.  The Congress is a wasteland.

19 Resign?  Hell, brag about it.

20 I think the guy should just fake everyone out....Fox got it out there, he was the "family values" candidate and he screwed with family values...they gave parts of his goodbye speech, now he should just lay lo and not say goodbye.  What are they going to do? 

21
Funny how the MFM makes this a headline on an election day, isn't it?

22

Reminds me of the time I had an affair with Westmoreland's aide in Da' Nang in '67.

Jungle love....its drivin' me mad.....it's drivin' me crazy.......

23 Vote for me, I can't get it up.

24 As long as they aren't crooked and show up for work in the morning, I don't give a shit.

Agreed.  Also?  I do not want to know.  Ever.  At all.*  As the BFF put it so aptly, all politicians, male or female, are Ken dolls.





*Exemption to be made for the current First Lady of France and even then it's gonna depend on who else is involved

25

And just to be an asshole male of the species and point out an inconvenient truth:

The female in this sordid bit of stupidity is equally guilty because I'm pretty sure she was aware of her boss' marital status. 

26 But why screw the staffer? Stop it. Keep it in your pants, it will be fine there. I swear, all the blood loss from an erection makes men do the stupidest things. Does he "love" her? Spare me.

27 Why is he resigning? Did he break the law?  Democrats never resign when they are caught cheating on their wives. Hell, Democrats don't resign when they are caught in major violations of the law even to the point of accepting bribes.

And as Monty says, this isn't anything out of the ordinary. Hell when you have people working together like that at an office a certain amount of cross-pollination is going to occur. It happened where I used to work quite often with far few people working there. 

28 So does this mean that they will have to spend a lot of money now to have a special election in about three months, just in time for the winner to be sworn in for the late summer / fall election recess, only to have to have another election three months after that?

Up to the governor, isn't it?  Dave Paterson decided NY-29 should almost a full year with no Congressional representation instead of holding a special election.  Heh.

29

4 Where do these guys find the time and energy? 

Do you really think it takes that much time?  And the little crumpet usually doesn't complain about it.

30 How's my lesbian bondage club outreach looking now, suckas?  Your'e welcome.

31 99.9% of the US population:
Yesterday - " Souder? Who?"
Today - " Souder? Hehe"
In one week - "Souder? Who?"

They can run this story forever it won't do any good. His resigning ends the story.

32 You would think that these guys and gals would be en guarde whenever a new part time staffer comes on to them.  You would think they would engage their brains and say to themselves "hmmm could this person have been sent by my opponents to involve me in a affair and discredit me?"  Instead of thinking "I'm too cool and I'm really haute and that must be why "that girl" as fantastic looking as she is, wants me"

33 22 Resign?  Hell, brag about it.

 

If you clicked the link and saw the guy's picture, you would think he'd have it tattooed on his forehead backwards just so people would know he could get laid.  Guy's got Jerry Nadler neck.

34 At least it was with a woman.  Or is that the reason the MFM will be all over it?  I agree with kansas, go full out Blago, brag about it and threaten to overturn other politicians apple carts.

35

They all do it, it's a "perk". I bet the other congressmen make fun of them if they aren't having an affair. Like, "What you aren't screwing your willing staffers? Barny is available...Rahm is in the showers now...what's a matter..scared?"

36

If I were him I wouldnt have resigned. There are Democrats right now sitting in Congress who have done far worse. Hell, Barney Frank was running an underaged male brothel right out of his tax-payer funded condo and hasnt apologized for shit.

37 Mark Souter - Mark Sanford; is there a parallel going on there?

Too bad this Mark cashed in early.  The State Newspaper will not be able to print daily attacks against him for a year even while most of the state actually still supported him as governor (but not as a honest husband). .

38 And just to be an asshole male of the species and point out an inconvenient truth:

How is that being an asshole?  Unless she was brain dead, she had to know he was married.  Of course she's just as much at fault. 

It was always my understanding that one sentence doesn't make a paragraph. Should be at least two.

We got into a debate about this yesterday at work and after much arguing I looked it up.  Apparently, there is no requirement that a paragraph be two sentences in modern usage.  Further proof that the world needs to get off my lawn. 

39 30 Why is he resigning? Did he break the law?  Democrats never resign when they are caught cheating on their wives. Hell, Democrats don't resign when they are caught in major violations of the law even to the point of accepting bribes.

Multiple senior House sources indicated that the extent of Souder's affair with the staffer would have landed him before the House Ethics Committee. Sources told Fox News that the aide, identified as Tracy Jackson, a woman in her mid-40s, would accompany the congressman to events and to record ads at a Christian radio broadcast station.

He most likely didn't break any law - the House Ethics Committee would have probably just slapped him on the wrist.  He's resigning because he violated his "family values" pledge and thinks that cost him any chance of re-election.

I believe in family values, but I also know what a cess-pool politics is.  None escape unscathed.  It gets tiring seeing people with their heads not completely up their backsides resign over things that a Dem would just skate on.

40 Politics is show business for ugly people. They haven't the first clue how to handle it. Their whole lives they have been dorky and ugly. Suddenly hotish chicks are rubbing up against them and they lose their shit, sacrifice it all and then think they won't get caught. The chick doesn't care, because suddenly she is a power player.

41 It I were this guys wife I would pull a spitzer and push the envelope by coming out and saying I didn't want him to resign as he was too important so he should stay there and you would work it out with him in private...

then what can anyone say?

42

It just bemuses me in this supposedly sexually-liberated age that people still freak out so badly about sexual affairs. Is he an asshole for doing it? Indubitably. But I find the outrage over it, as I said before, rather overwrought.

It's just about the only sexual taboo left, cheating. Probably because the pathos of the betrayed spouse plays so well.

Still, maybe we oughta maybe spot each pol one ignored affair. Hearing about this doesn't really help anything. 

43

but was there "snorkeling" involved?

44 Souder Made Abstinence Video with His Mistress


Meh.  They're both over 18, high-school graduates, good-paying jobs with health insurance.  Not much chance of an unplanned pregnancy collecting welfare for the next 18 21 26 years. 

45 Abstinence education is somehow to blame?  Umm I don't think abstinence education promotes NEVER having sex.  These guys are idiots.  They will stand on the thinnest of reeds in order to bash any conservative policy.

46 The female in this sordid bit of stupidity is equally guilty because I'm pretty sure she was aware of her boss' marital status. I think infidelity infuriates married women because in a way, it represents the worst kind of nightmare for them: losing their husbands to a younger, prettier woman. That's why the outrage tends to cross political lines were women are concerned. Women don't hate the political implications of the infidelity; the hate the man. It's visceral. Men, however, tend to approach it with more...what's the word? Ambivalence, maybe. It's not right to cheat, but who knows? Maybe the old lady is a harridan, an ice-queen, a complete bitch who grudgingly puts out once a month and lies there stiff as a board and then hurries off to the bathroom to take a shower. It doesn't make what he did right...but it certainly makes him more sympathetic. You always hear the saying, "The heart wants what it wants." A slighty less well-known corrollary includes the male penis.

47 The wife should come out and say she is "frigid" and encouraged her husband to release his energy elsewhere. It would help the family.

48

Eh...is she hot? Inquiring minds...

 

49 45 Politics is show business for ugly people. They haven't the first clue how to handle it. Their whole lives they have been dorky and ugly. Suddenly hotish chicks are rubbing up against them and they lose their shit, sacrifice it all and then think they won't get caught. The chick doesn't care, because suddenly she is a power player.

So you're saying I should go into politics?  .

50 Awesome work TPM.  Breaking the news that Souder was an advocate for abstinence education which is actually celibacy if you have your super secret lefty decoder ring.

51
How long did the MFM ignore Silky Pony's affair?

52 the aide, identified as Tracy Jackson, a woman in her mid-40s

Aha.  Now we know why it was OK for Bill Clinton to have sex with an underling but not OK for Souder.

53

Politics is show business for ugly people




Now wait just a damn second there....

54 Not for anything but did this guy know he was going to lose the next election anyway?

55

a complete bitch who grudgingly puts out once a month and lies there stiff as a board

He needs to work on his technique then.

56

Two questions:

Did his wife have cancer? And did the aide have his baby?

I should know better to read the comments when I've just made a lovely cup of hot hot tea.  Owowowow spewing that hurt. 

57

Tracy Jackson, a woman in her mid-40s

Ah, the wife "didn't understand him". Either that or 'ol Tracy could suck a softball through a tailpipe. By the mid-40s there certain skills have been perfected.

58 Apparently, there is no requirement that a paragraph be two sentences in modern usage.  Further proof that the world needs to get off my lawn. 

Posted by: alexthechick at May 18, 2010 11:17 AM (8WZWv)

Further evidence of the dumbing down of everyfuckingthing.

Modern usage == Welcome to Stupidville

59

"It gets tiring seeing people with their heads not completely up their backsides resign over things that a Dem would just skate on."

Skate?  You call getting a gig as a political correspondent/contributor at a major network as part of the Democrat rehab program skating???

Walk a mile buddy, walk a mile.

 

60 Where do these guys find the time and energy? Do you really think it takes that much time?  And the little crumpet usually doesn't complain about it.

Like Chinese cooking, the actual cook time is brief, but the preparation takes forever!

61

Most likely there will be no replacement, as having the election after the primary would be expensive.

I really don't think people understand the whole concept of sin.  Souder made a significant mistake.  He resigned.  That's the way it's supposed to be done.  We aren't perfect.

Well, the rest of you aren't, anyway.

62

I'm far from a prude but my feeling about politicians and cheating is that if they can do that to their wives who supposedly they once loved, they would  have no problem lying and cheating about other things.

I'm glad you aren't talking about taxes.

63

I'm far from a prude but my feeling about politicians and cheating is that if they can do that to their wives who supposedly they once loved, they would  have no problem lying and cheating about other things.

Posted by: polynikes at May 18, 2010 11:24 AM (m2CN7)

Thats horseshit. I've never cheated on my wife, but when she asks me " Honey does this dress make me look fat" I always say " Hell No !"

64 Look at lot of the dems have done stuff like this, have they resiged.  Maybe Michael should have used this as a bargaining chip  "OK< one of mine will resign if one of yours resigns too"

65

Modern usage == Welcome to Stupidville

Like "eating healthy" it's "eating healthfully" . "Eating heathy foods" means the food is not sick, it's "eating healthful foods" but nooooo, we just dumb it down for the dumb. Ten items or fewer not ten items or less. Makes me nuts.

66

I suppose it would be too much to ask of these jackasses to resign first and limit the damage to themselves instead of...

... screwing the lot of us!!!  Bastards!

67 You always hear the saying, "The heart wants what it wants." A slighty less well-known corrollary includes the male penis.

Do you mean "A stiff d..k has no conscience"?

68 64 I'm far from a prude but my feeling about politicians and cheating is that if they can do that to their wives who supposedly they once loved, they would  have no problem lying and cheating about other things.

True, but politicians by their very nature lie and cheat (at least a little). They have to as to get ahead in the political world.

#66  Skate?  You call getting a gig as a political correspondent/contributor at a major network as part of the Democrat rehab program skating???

My mistake, that life must be hell!  I'll walk my mile now...

69 I wonder how long this story was known and held in reserve for when the Democrats would need it.  I do, seriously, question the timing. 

70 On the "hypocrisy" argument against abstinence education:

There are corrupt cops.  It is a sad fact, but a fact nonetheless.  Does that fact nullify the laws against murder, rape, robbery, theft and jaywalking?

NO!

Things (like childhood abstinence and the civil law) have intrinsic value that transcends the behavior of the people who may be involved with them.  The failure of the messenger does not in any way impact the validity of the message.

What is so freaking hard to understand about that?

71

Dear Congressman: Get the fuck out of my House.

Next!

72

For me at least, "family values politicians" refers to how they vote, not how they act, unless they flaunt it. An affair is distasteful, certainly doesn't say good things about them, but it's not what I look to for a representative.

 

73 This is almost as bad as when Sid Blumenthal claimed he served in the Ai Drang Valley with Mel Gibson back in 1963 and wouldn't have made it out alive but for Greg Kinnear rescuing him with a chopper

74

Again I ask. Why Today?

75 All through college, my profs said Strunk was our guide, so there.

That was my position but alas there are other guides out there which (that?) state otherwise. 

_{* revs engine and turfs alexthechicks lawn *}

You missed that patch over there. 

76

I think infidelity infuriates married women because in a way, it represents the worst kind of nightmare for them: losing their husbands to a younger, prettier woman.

And by "nightmare" you mean "lucrative opportunity".

77 Michael Steels should hold a "get the junk out of the trunk day" for all republicans....they can stand up, say what they have done wrong and are doing wrong and then go back to work.  Maybe the dems will follow, unless they will be too busy cross checking if the guy/gal said what they have on him/her.

78

dagny, I have no idea how many wives actually encourage hubby to go forth and dork around. My guess is, not many. And the minimum rules have to be, first, don't do it with someone you see every day (because then he might fall in love) and second, don't embarrass the family.

He broke rule 1 when he he dorked a 40-something staffer instead of a 20-something stripper; and he broke rule 2 when he got caught.

Magic 8 ball says, "this fucker is getting divorced"

79 They trumpet Republicans being liberals and liberals pretending to be Republicans. Liberals being liberals - maintain a discrete silence. Republicans being conservative - well, that's just plain evil.

80 Does abstinance education even apply to 40 year olds? The point of abstinance education is to prove that lots of bad things go away with abstinance. These idiots know that because they are friggin' old.

81

Checked out the abstinence video. OMG

Starting to believe the "mistress is a dem plant" theory...

82

My suggestion would be that he keep his campaign contributions.

83

Things (like childhood abstinence and the civil law) have intrinsic value that transcends the behavior of the people who may be involved with them.

But to people who are mired in their own adolescence, they see "family values" as a criticism directed at them.

84 Oh please, they are editing the abstinence video probably as we speak with the congressman and his older other woman saying "Now you hormone filled kiddies should do as we say, not as we do, that is all"

85
This is almost as bad as when Sid Blumenthal claimed he served in the Ai Drang Valley with Mel Gibson back in 1963 and wouldn't have made it out alive but for Greg Kinnear rescuing him with a chopper

Posted by: Ben at May 18, 2010 11:30 AM (wuv1c)

It wasnt Greg Kinnear in a chopper, it was Danny Glover in a Cessna Skymaster.

Lets get the facts straight.

86 I'd really rather NOT do a political update today, Joe.

87 64 I'm far from a prude but my feeling about politicians and cheating is that if they can do that to their wives who supposedly they once loved, they would  have no problem lying and cheating about other things.

Posted by: polynikes at May 18, 2010 11:24 AM (m2CN7)

You don't take lying as a given in a politician? That's cute.

88

Rising Indiana conservative star Marlin Stutzman, who just came in 2nd to Dan Coats in the GOP primary, lives in Souder's district and might be draftable for that sudden House seat opening.

http://ow.ly/1MBB8

 

89 86 Yeah. I know. I've always had a soft spot for Lorena Bobbit except she made the error of not using the garbage disposal. However, if wifey wants to do a Hillary...

90 Not only am I thankful for a loving family but for a loving God. If that were really true, guess what you would not have done?

91

But to people who are mired in their own adolescence, they see "family values" as a criticism directed at them.

Posted by: AmishDude at May 18, 2010 11:34 AM (T0NGe)

People who are mired in their own adolescence belong in their parents' basements.  Not in positions of power.

92 I'd hit it!

93 Well as much as I would like to criticize this fellow, I would need to see how hot the staffer is first - lol

94 93 Tough shit. I tell my teenagers that all the time. See this illegal u-turn I'm making? See this hard liquor I'm pouring? See the smoking I gave up? See this impulse purchase? Don't do it dumbass until you have the money to pay for the consequences.

95 As to this story helping Blumenthal I don't really agree. In fact it makes him look worse because Souder immediately resigned. If Souder had fought it, or at least hemmed and hawed, it might help Dick. Instead Dick looks desperate and selfish.

96 Yeah, not a word in the MFM about old Blummie and his "  I served in Vietnam." Surprised ?

97

I have no idea how many wives actually encourage hubby to go forth and dork around.

I know quite a number of women who are fine with their husbands being nagged out of wedlock.  And, really, isn't that the equivalent of sex to a woman?

98 "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity."

Somewhere Saul Alinsky's dessicated corpse is laying in a small puddle of glee.

99 75 You always hear the saying, "The heart wants what it wants." A slighty less well-known corrollary includes the male penis.

Do you mean "A stiff d..k has no conscience"?

Posted by: Vic at May 18, 2010 11:28 AM (6taRI)

 

I always say "blue balls throw caution to the wind."

100
Every time. EVERY. TIME. we get traction on the Democrats...

the Republicans screw it up.

Almost as if they were programmed to sabotage the GOP. Almost.

101

Hillary Clinton once identified the recollection of my titillating past and how I present it to the media as savvy. 

Oh wait, nevermind, -- it was the New York Times.

102 Idiot. I don't care who you are, you don't diddle the help.

103 Typical MFM. When this happens to an R, naturally this is indicative of all Rs. When it happens to a D, why, we have NO idea what party he belongs to! He's just a rogue agent, nothing to do with party.

104

I know quite a number of women who are fine with their husbands being nagged out of wedlock.  And, really, isn't that the equivalent of sex to a woman?

They aren't getting laid enough or well enough. It brings the bitchiness waaaaay down.

105 "109
Every time. EVERY. TIME. we get traction on the Democrats...

the Republicans screw it up.

Almost as if they were programmed to sabotage the GOP. Almost.

Posted by: Mr Peebles at May 18, 2010 11:40 AM (OZ0pi)"

This is because the republicans are following the rules.  I mean the public has absorbed Frank, and "silky pony" and bill with ease, because the rules for democrats are different.  The republicans have to stop playing by the dems rules for the republicans and start playing by the republicans rules for the republicans.  The beginning would be for this guy not to resign and have his wife come out and say she forgives him and understands.

106
Alright, fuck it. Who cares. Let's move on.

What's Indiana's rule for replacements?

107 "Stutzman for Souder's Seat" Facebook page is already up.

108 Where in the hell are the staffer pics?

109
I'm talking about the timing, curious.

The fucking timing, it's gonna kill us!

110 Eight terms

I guess, after seven terms, you're allowed to get your wang wet.

Poster Boy for Term Limits

111

I heard this story when I was driving home from my a.m. run.  Bryan Suits, our a.m. local talk radio guy, played part of the abstinence video clip.  He said that the woman was "attractive, and Souder looks like a young Roger Ebert, and I'm being charitable."  After looking at the vid, I would have to agree. 

 

112

Uncontrollable Republican penis's is exactly the reason why the Democrats will pick up at least 2.3 million seats in the House and Senate this fall

113 I mean, after seeing this guy's pic, makes "taking one for the team"....real

114

As to this story helping Blumenthal I don't really agree. In fact it makes him look worse because Souder immediately resigned. If Souder had fought it, or at least hemmed and hawed, it might help Dick. Instead Dick looks desperate and selfish.

 

YOU DON'T KNOW DICK11!!11

115 You all are commenting on his looks as if that's what attracts women. He might be in the lower quintile for appearance, but he's in the upper 10% or so for power, and that's what women want, generally.

116 Look, with dems you know they are all oversexed and you understand how difficult it is for them to stay faithful to one man or one woman. but, with republicans, you view them as the smart dork types who were thrilled to get a second look from the opposite sex.   Maybe Steele was trying to counteract this with the lesbian bondage club?

117 Heather asked in the previous thread if Stutzman was in Souder's district:
Yes, the Indiana 3rd District encompasses the whole NE corner of the state,
and Stutzman is from LaGrange County, along the Michigan border.

118 I just checked last nights ONT.  The spammers went apeshit on it.

119 The staffer is teh hawt!

120 @123: Posted by: Crapbraggin' at May 18, 2010 11:48 AM (CfmlF)

Heh- reminds me of a radio host back in NY who was sponsored by the Dick Gidron Cadillac dealership.  He used to do a one-line promotion that went: "If you don't know a car dealer who can give you quality and value in a fine luxury car then you don't know Dick!"

Musta gave the FCC (and the station's lawyers) fits...

121 Let me know when he joins the Congressional White Caucus and starts calling Democrats racists and registering false complaints about being spat upon with the police.

122
WHY ISN'T HE FINISHING HIS FUCKING TERM???

What a piece of shit.

123 See this impulse purchase? Don't do it dumbass until you have the money to pay for the consequences.

Posted by: dagny at May 18, 2010 11:39 AM (Rg8WT)

jib, newsletter etc.

124 "131
WHY ISN'T HE FINISHING HIS FUCKING TERM???

What a piece of shit.

Posted by: Mr Peebles at May 18, 2010 11:53 AM (OZ0pi)"

this is the only question that matters

125 #107  Somewhere Saul Alinsky's dessicated corpse is laying in a small puddle of glee.

Only in the body.  Elsewhere...

126 I tell my teenagers that all the time. See this illegal u-turn I'm making? See this hard liquor I'm pouring? See the smoking I gave up? See this impulse purchase? Don't do it dumbass until you have the money to pay for the consequences.

Heh.  Sounds like me instructing people about computer stuff "See how I'm carrying this laptop by the lid?  Don't do that." 

127 Every time. EVERY. TIME. we get traction on the Democrats... This doesn't seem like a big deal. Just put another (R) in there, a better one, a real one. His entire apparatus is now looking for a candidate to attach to, so the seat should be fine. Do Marx and Lenin now make more sense to you now? Is Obama more impressive and statesmanlike in your eyes? Has the Constitution come "alive"? No. Carry on.

128 Pussy makes us lose our minds. It is the DNA cross that all men must bear. And in the end, we get our asses kicked for it. No weepy Oprah for us. Welcome to the club, Mark!

129 I mean, is there something else in the closet?  Not just this affair with the attractive staffer in her 40's who probably is taking one for the team?

130 incognito--thanks for the info.  Maybe there's a silver lining here?


OT: Barry's a cold, callous bastard.  Good grief.

131 And just to prove my point, here's Michelle Malkin in full spitting-with-rage mode. She takes this shit personally -- way more personally than a pundit should, IMO. I always wonder if there's some kind of personal history there.

132

Pussy makes us lose our minds. It is the DNA cross that all men must bear. And in the end, we get our asses kicked for it.

You can say that again.

133
Expect Souder to become the poster boy for the Republican Party in the media. You know, the same media who dropped Eric 'the tickler' Massa down the memory hole as soon as possible.

yep.

134 Liberals, OTOH, have indeed forfeited their right to tell children anything.

135

Thank god this came out on the same day the NYT was running a story about me and the entire MSM decided to run with the Souder story instead.

Good fortune has a way of smiling on you when there is a (D) in front of your name.

136 Posted by: Lemon Kitten at May 18, 2010 11:58 AM (0fzsA)

"hey vote for us dems, we keep it real, we're honest about our sexual proclivities, you know we all have them before you cast your vote and all the other baggage we have, you know and you elect us anyway, we are the real truthful tellers.  But the republicans, they are hypocrites, they do everything we do and worse and yet they want you to "do as they say, not as they do"....beware of having them in power".......here it comes...

137 All things considered, Ace needs to create when there's breaking news that on the downside.

During good times, we have the Flaming Skull.  I suggest for bad times like these we have the Flamming Pile of Dog Poo.

138 These guys don't put away a little bone money anymore. 

Amateurs.

139 Can't an alcoholic tell kids that getting hammered is bad and will lead to misery.  Okay, he's immoral.  Why does that make the policy positions wrong?

140 Conspiracy theory: I wonder if the NYT or other MFM have stories like this "stored" for a Dem rainy day. So, Dick Blumenthal is suddenly embarrassed by lying about Vietnam. NYT reporter goes to be a big file called "Possible Republican Deflection Stories," digs out what he knows about Souder and gives him a call. "We're going to run this story unless you resign." Bingo, the heat (if any) is now off Blumenthal and he carries on as usual.

141 >I'm far from a prude but my feeling about politicians and cheating is that if they can do that to their wives who supposedly they once loved, they would  have no problem lying and cheating about other things.

Posted by: polynikes at May 18, 2010 11:24 AM (m2CN7)

agreed- if you'll cheat on your wife, then cheating on your taxes or your timesheet or the business's books or the ballot box you've been entrusted with should come come relatively easy

_{remember when we used to tar and feather politicians? good times, good times...}

142 He's not finishing his term because he would have to appear before an Ethics committee.

143 "152 He's not finishing his term because he would have to appear before an Ethics committee.

Posted by: rawmuse at May 18, 2010 12:04 PM (+JrzC)"

How many dems are also in the same position.  Michael Steele should know this....

144 Who would have ever thought that something as ugly as a vagina would drive men crazy? Cause us to lose families, fortunes, and once in awhile sacrifice a Cadillac Escalade to a sixty degree loft wedge? I was probably the only fucker rooting for Tiger in the Masters.

Welcome fellow dumb asses!! We've missed ya!

145 139 incognito--thanks for the info.  Maybe there's a silver lining here?

I think so.  I had hoped the people in Indiana would vote for Marlin in the Senate race ... now they have a 2nd chance to send him to DC.

146 He might be in the lower quintile for appearance, but he's in the upper 10% or so for power, and that's what women want, generally. I think the deal is that women have a sliding scale on the looks/money thing. If you're poor, you'd better be mighty handsome; if you're ugly, you'd better have lots of money. (You rarely see beautiful women marrying poor, ugly men -- no matter how good the ugly guy's personality may be. Rich ugly guys -- rock stars, investment bankers -- get all the tail they want.)

147

Can't an alcoholic tell kids that getting hammered is bad and will lead to misery.  Okay, he's immoral.  Why does that make the policy positions wrong?

 

I know, just the other day, I was telling my son not to put a bullet in that wounded cop he was standing over and he was like, "But Dad, Mumia abu Jamal did it."

I really didn't have any response to that, so he iced that pig, but good.

148
Conspiracy theory: I wonder if the NYT or other MFM have stories like this "stored" for a Dem rainy day. So, Dick Blumenthal is suddenly embarrassed by lying about Vietnam. NYT reporter goes to be a big file called "Possible Republican Deflection Stories," digs out what he knows about Souder and gives him a call. "We're going to run this story unless you resign." Bingo, the heat (if any) is now off Blumenthal and he carries on as usual.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 18, 2010 12:03 PM (eNxMU)

The Forehead was on Anderson Cooper last night ripping Blumenthal a new one. I bet he wishes he would have kept his mouth shut.

149 My God, are you still talking?

150 Took this long for MoveOn and Soros to find a woman willing to sleep with this guy? Sheesh.

151 Wait a minute, morons. I cheated on my gal but I drew the line at the things that mattered. I paid taxes and never once cheated a time sheet. Epic pass. Pussy? Well, epic fail.

152 Rush opening with Janet not having read the Arizona immigration bill and I think Eric said he hadn't read it too...

So maybe Rush and Beck and Hannity and Levin and Savage ought to have a media event where they read the Arizona immigration bill for the people in DC who are too busy partying to read it....

Then they can post it on you tube so everyone can enjoy it...

153

B.J. Clinton cigar-banging an intern in the Oval Office and popping his squack all over her dress?  Not a big deal.  None of our business.  A private matter between him and his wife.

This Rep. I've never heard of before today?  Hypocrite.  Liar.  Corrupt.

Nuance:  taste the rainbow of cognitive dissonance!

 

154 I am still relevant!  Wahoo.

155 Like "eating healthy" it's "eating healthfully" . "Eating heathy foods" means the food is not sick, it's "eating healthful foods" but nooooo, we just dumb it down for the dumb. Ten items or fewer not ten items or less. Makes me nuts.

You too, eh?  Every time some stupid ad says, "Eat healthy", the first thought that comes to mind is "Who's Healthy and why are you eating him?"...

156 He's not finishing his term because he would have to appear before an Ethics committee hearing, chaired by Democrats.

157  private matter between him and his wife.

This Rep. I've never heard of before today?  Hypocrite.  Liar.  Corrupt.

I actually saw a libtard douchbag explaining the difference on some show once. They hold that it's ok for them because they aren't hypocrits.

Now, we would respond with taxes and transparency et al.

158 Yeah, funny how nobody but a few people in IN ever heard of this guy but how he will be on the news every night until after November.

159 Why is he resigning at all....the facebook generation likes a guy who has real human qualities and tells it like it is...so he told it....he shouldn't resign....i mean remember when BO said if his energy/cap and tax bills pass your electric bills were going to go through the roof...the facebook generation appreciates this honesty and will elect you in spite of it....we know

160
He's not finishing his term because he would have to appear before an Ethics committee hearing, chaired by Democrats.

Posted by: rawmuse at May 18, 2010 12:11 PM (+JrzC)

The same ethics committee who have cleared Charlie Rangel and John Conyers of any wrong doing.


Yea, I dont half way blame him.

161 I know this can be shocking to liberals but kids are not simply miniature adults ...

Shocking?  It's incomprehensible to liberals, because liberals are nothing but oversized children - nasty, stupid, spiteful oversized children who never should have been let out of their sand boxes, where they couldn't hurt anyone with their emotional problems and mind-numbing stupidity.

162

You too, eh?  Every time some stupid ad says, "Eat healthy", the first thought that comes to mind is "Who's Healthy and why are you eating him?"...

Which makes it really creepy when M'chelle says it, over and over and over.

163 So maybe Rush and Beck and Hannity and Levin and Savage ought to have a media event where they read the Arizona immigration bill for the people in DC

Kind of a "We are the World" thingy?

164 I have zero problem with Souder talking abstinence. The thing that I find irritating or puzzling maybe is better word is how the peeps who bashed Big Dawg then do the same thing he did, cheat on their wife with a staffer.

I do not think it prevents him from serving. I didnt think it prevented Bill from serving either. I dont even think it prevents them from serving if they lie about an affair, most people do lie about their affairs.

I just think we should focus on their VOTES and their positions on policy not in bed\

I have a bigger problem with Blumenthal. My dad God Bless, was a Vietnam vet, Marine, two tours. If Blumenthal didnt go fine, say that, Dont glom onto the actual vets.

Hillary saw more action doing a corkscrew landing in a war zone than Blumenthal did. And it was wrong for HRC to 'misstate' what went on there also. In that case frankly I think she reemembered it as frightening and serious, I am sure the military laid down the danger for her and she really remembered it as dangerous.  I know I know, Hill is the last of my vestiges of Democratness and I cling to her, bitterly.

Anyway Blumenthal should go, Hill paid the price, the country didnt care what Bill did and we made that clear in the elections after the impeaching. But I still dont think it precludes someone from serving for cheating with a staffer.

Take a letter Maria.

165 Did he teabag her?

BTW: If Specter gets booted in today's primary, I will be sorely disappointed if the "Flaming Douchebag" graphic doesn't make an appearance.

166 Does this mean I won't be receiving my "Courageous Restraint" Medal? 

167 So who outed him?

I along with most people here remain amazed at politicians and their affairs.  Especially republicans, not because their not human, but because they know that even if they are a low level administration official, they will become national news.

168 Nuance:  taste the rainbow of cognitive dissonance!

But safely, like in that instructional video your sixth-grade teacher showed you when she handed out the dental dams.

169 15 I do find the hyperventilating over this sort of thing overwrought. Politicians have been lying, cheating, backstabbing n'e'er-do-wells for most of recorded human history. An affair with a staffer? Back in the supposedly stuffed-shirt days of the Republic, this would barely have raised an eyebrow. It was common for Senators and Representatives to install their mistresses into apartments in D.C. for convenience's sake; there were several rooming-houses for "single young ladies" that catered to exactly this clientele.

It just bemuses me in this supposedly sexually-liberated age that people still freak out so badly about sexual affairs. Is he an asshole for doing it? Indubitably. But I find the outrage over it, as I said before, rather overwrought.

If you gathered together all elected officials into a group, I'll bet you money that more than 50% of them (and not all men by any means) have had extramarital affairs. As long as they aren't crooked and show up for work in the morning, I don't give a shit.

Posted by: Monty at May 18, 2010 11:02 AM (4Pleu)

Let's not forget about the Evegreen State's hard-partying sorority girl Maria Cantwell.

170 Posted by: Guy Fawkes at May 18, 2010 12:15 PM (7VvJB)

Deep down inside they enjoy this...the kids from high school will be like "oh wow, that nerdy guy with the pocket protector and the dorky shoes has power and had an affair, wonders never cease"....he finally got them...they know he isn't the nerd they thought he was....

171 179 The woman's friends to whom she bragged that she was boffing a congressman. Duh. They then told some libtard relative or friend and viola.

172 Not for anything but did this guy know he was going to lose the next election anyway?

Posted by: curious at May 18, 2010 11:22 AM (p302b)

Heard on FOX radio that he just won his primary a couple weeks ago.

173
The woman's friends to whom she bragged that she was boffing a congressman. Duh. They then told some libtard relative or friend and viola.

Posted by: dagny at May 18, 2010 12:17 PM (Rg8WT)

The Democrats probably employ an army of folks to tail Republicans and their staffers in the D.C. area.

174 "184 Not for anything but did this guy know he was going to lose the next election anyway?

Posted by: curious at May 18, 2010 11:22 AM (p302b)

Heard on FOX radio that he just won his primary a couple weeks ago.

Posted by: RushBabe at May 18, 2010 12:18 PM (W8m8i)"

Then why the heck is he resigning?

Was this a warning shot across the bow?

175 Oddly enough, Souder's roaming dingus didn't get headline treatment on SFGate.  You expect GOP misdeeds to take up half their front page.

Of course, Blumenthal's serial tale-telling isn't mentioned at all.

176 You're probably right. They may even have moles in their offices.

177 War on Bacon.

To save us, they have to kill us.

178

He's served eight terms?  It was time for him to go anyway.

179 Rush is sort of saying that we have been desensitized to this stuff by the out and out lies told by the big cheese...and the big cheese still got elected...Rush is giving a laundry list and saying "which is worse"?

180

"Rain, cold, miserable."

Arlen, or the weather?

181 I along with most people here remain amazed at politicians and their affairs.  Especially republicans, not because their not human, but because they know that even if they are a low level administration official, they will become national news.

I rest my case. Pussy. Trumps.

182


When I jumped out of my first chopper into a rice paddy in Vietnam I was just a young boy of nineteen........nonna-nonna-nonna-nineteen....nineteen.

183 The resignation pretty much limits it to today, maybe tomorrow and that is it. And if Spector goes down in PA, probably limits it to this afternoon.

Have you forgotten 2006 and Mark Foley already?  He was drug out every night for months on end. Nobody ever heard of him either before 2006 and nobody hears of him now.

184 Heck, wouldn't you want to have fun if you thought the dems were trailing you for "stuff".....Geez I'd go on a marathon visit to all my guy friends and have it look like we were just about to, well you know, and then abruptly pull down the blinds each time....and then leave and go on to the next one....I mean if you visit 48 guys in a 24 hour period...even they would be shocked...

185 191 War on Bacon.

To save us, they have to kill us.

Posted by: HeatherRadish at May 18, 2010 12:21 PM (mR7mk)

Based on how those two hawtys in the photo are positioned, all they need to do is roll towards each other and...

186

My endorsement for abstinence remains intact and untarnished.

I only told those children to wait until they were married to have sex.  I never specified who they should have sex with after marriage, only to wait.

187  You all are commenting on his looks as if that's what attracts women. He might be in the lower quintile for appearance, but he's in the upper 10% or so for power, and that's what women want, generally.

Posted by: Randy at May 18, 2010 11:50 AM (zQKSr)

Seeing that little crapweasel Peter Orszag leave the pregnant GF for a new GF, I've gotta agree.  He's the poster boy for nasty nerd.

188

"I'd go on a marathon visit to all my guy friends and have it look like we were just about to, well you know,"

...roll the banana in chocolate sprinkes?

189 Shave that bacon!

190 no no  no...have  "nice cup of green tea with lemon and a nice conversation" and go on to the next guy friend but leave the illusion that you have done the act with all 48 on a marathon.  Then later they can all testify that all they did was have an innocent cup of tea....would be lots of fun...embarrassing the idiots...

191 Just to recap:

Jessica Cutler blogging about taking it up the ass for money from Congressional staffers = hip, stylish, confident, honest, liberated.

A Republican fucking the help = OMG TEH ULTIMUTT SIN LOLZ1!!!1!

192 In America, it ain't a sin until you get busted. Getting busted is for idiots.

193 Have no respect for anyone who uses sex as a weapon.

194 When John Kerry and I were killing those gooks and earning our medals which we threw into the Potomac as a protest for acting in the manner of jingus kahn, we knew we would be saved by the wayward eyes of a republican congressman.

Oh yeah, I forgot to say I hate those liars on wall street.

195 If I had a pussy and worked in the WH, it would be like hitting the lottery. Let me get into BO's pants and I'll write the contracts for book deals, movie deals, TV appearances.

It's like having a dream about the winning numbers and buying the ticket. Ain't Amerikka great!!!

196

Oh please...............

Did you take a good look at this guy and how he handled himself in that video?  My gosh the guy is a supreme and unattractive dork.  Tracy, the aide, is hot.  This guy has never been nor had a prayer of being with a woman like her.  No way he turns down that opportunity and most of you hyprocrites would find yourselves in the same boat if suddenly you had the chance of nailing someone way above your pay grade.

I can't see WHAT she saw in him though.

197 Posted by: Lunatic Fringe at May 18, 2010 12:36 PM (uFdnM)

Didn't I hear that in order to work in the government now that you have to sing a confidentiality clause?

198 @211

Not a chance in hell. Quit projecting your lack of integrity onto those of us who understand and value committment.

199

190 You're probably right. They may even have moles in their offices.

They're undergwound cwittahs, right? Now theah's an idea...

200 Empire of Jeff - you left out "Ace snarking up a fake post about doing the same thing - INTERNET GOLD."

201 Man, that sockpuppet is very sticky.  Wonder why...

202 has charlie rangel paid his taxes yet?

203 @215,

You'll have to tell me to which post you're referring, because I don't get it. If you're implying that I'm a syncophant, then you need to use the search function - I disagree with Ace on numerous posts. Further, if that's your point, suck a cock, fuckbucket.

Charges of hypocrisy are the lamest taunts possible. All humans are hypocrites. Might as well hurl accusations of oxygen breathing.

204 Damn. Sorry for cussing out your sockpuppet, Reason.

205 Humph, this story could cause a stampede of old fat fookers moving to Indiana. Where else can a unimpressive, graying dough-boy land such a relatively young hottie. 

206 I want to know right now.
If President Obama, who is against gay marriage, who is always nagging fathers to be responsible, who uses his marriage as a political tool,  if he is found to be having an affair or that he did have an affair, is he a hypocrite?  Will that be news?

Cause right now I'm having trouble figuring out when it's hypocrisy, when it's news, and when it's a personal failing.

207

"In this poisonous environment of Washington, D.C., any personal failing is seized upon, often twisted, for political gain.

Gee, too bad DC isn't a more receptive place for adulterers and office predators.

208 Souder was apparently a longtime advocate for abstinence education. TPM Muckraker even found him and the staffer he is alleged to have the affair with talking about his feelings on the issue as some sort of campaign or issue oriented video.

Ummm... the guy is married with three kids.  We all know he ain't a virgin.  Abstinence education has nothing to do with breaking marriage vows. 

209 I can't see WHAT she saw in him though. Money. Power. Influence. And maybe that skeevy little thrill some women get from cheating with a married man.

210 Dems can run gay brothels in the basement and Reps have to resign for driving on the grass. Only in America.

211 Posted by: MayBee at May 18, 2010 01:04 PM (EF/c

Let me try to simplify for you....if you are a lib/dem then you get a pass no matter what you do

if you are a republican/conservative you are castrated if you walk on the grass

212 Marlin Stutzman will take this seat. Thanks Mark! You screwed the help and screwed yourself out of a job. I am ok with that~

213 The good news is, female senators who have affairs with married men are given a pass, if they are Democrats. (See Maria Cantwell)

214 If President Obama, who is against gay marriage, who is always nagging fathers to be responsible, who uses his marriage as a political tool,  if he is found to be having an affair or that he did have an affair, is he a hypocrite?  Will that be news?

Best leave that to the tabloids.

215 I have a feeling he's about to earn himself a PhD in abtinence.

216

"If you gathered together all elected officials into a group, I'll bet you money that more than 50% of them (and not all men by any means) have had extramarital affairs. As long as they aren't crooked and show up for work in the morning, I don't give a shit."

"I'm far from a prude but my feeling about politicians and cheating is that if they can do that to their wives who supposedly they once loved, they would  have no problem lying and cheating about other things."

Two schools of thought, here. I get the first school of thought but have to go with the second.

(1) You volunteered to be a politician and "represent" and "lead" us. In fact you campaigned for it, and in all probability told us you were more ethical than the other guy. I'm sick of nobody being held accountable, particularly politicos who have NO hesitation at telling other people how they should live their lives and passing laws to compel people to live the way a political party feels they should.

(2) Years ago, you swore before God, in front of your family, your wife to be, her family, and all your friends, to cherish her, be loyal, all that good stuff. Yeah, I know no one is perfect and stuff happens. But this same guy swore a few months ago in front of a lot of the same people to be honest, uphold the law, do the right thing, etc., etc. when he was elected to represent US. Trust him? Just sayin'.

(3) While Bill Clinton was playing whatever in the Oval Office, there were enemies of this country out there that would do ANYTHING to get their hands on compromising information about him that could give them leverage or an edge. Leaks do happen. The issues he deals with aren't trivial and are about more than money. They are about national security, soldiers' lives, on and on. Trust him to do the right thing if the stuff hit the fan and someone out there was pressuring him? Surrre, just look at his track record.

(4) They know what the consequences will be if they get caught and that the consequences will be far worse than they would be for the average guy or gal who gets caught. They also know that in today's world there is a good likelihood they will get caught, and that if they do, they DO have enemies who will bring them down. Stupid? Too stupid to make decisions that directly impact our lives?

(5) He's just a congressman, and I understand there aren't as many implications as when a President cheats. But where do we draw the line? Is cheating OK for this guy who I have never heard of and could be on the committee for emptying ashtrays in staff offices for all I know? Is it OK for a Senator who is a head of a powerful committee? For Al Gore? For Clinton? Maybe if you want to be a politician and aspire to be our representative and lawmaker, you need to think this out a little and decide that maybe, just maybe, you need to stop being a dealmaker and keep it in your pants for the time period you are in that level of public service. After that, I guess it's between you and your family.

I understand it goes on, and that nobody is perfect, all that. But I don't have a problem with people being upset and for there being real time consequences for these political bozos. 

217 Liberals won't understand that kids are not adults because most liberals never grew up themselves.  Instead, liberals think they have achieved the zenith of maturity.  When they see that kids view the world much as they do, and understand things to similar extents ("Wow, that kid is as smart as me!"  "No, you're as dumb as that kid."), they understandably think kids are just like adults.

218 Jeeeebus what a self serving asswhipe. On the day Blumenthal should be occupying the news this jackoff runs out and says oh me too! Just to deflect some of the coverage. I hope the fucker has to live in a box under the overpass.

219 The reason this is bullshit is the hypocrisy of the abstinence only video (and no, not abstinence only itself, which is a distinct subject). Here's the deal: when it comes to cupcakelets like this one, Washington D.C. is like a gigantic Krispy Kreme outlet, with big ol' flashing neons signs in every aisle reading: Go Ahead - Lick My Icing. In contrast, Indiana is an unbroken string of wheat thins franchises. All the Kennedys and a string of Dems in which Chris Dodd is but a single sausage link have regularly loaded up on these carbs for decades. There should be relief here: this isn't another Larry Craig fingering his way thru the nation's airport's men's restrooms, or Eric Massa conducting routine deep tickle searches on anyone whe comes within grope range. Hopefull this little cupcake will move to Hawaii, meet a nice foreign exchange student, travel to Bahrain or Botswana to train locals on how Americans are able to get the special spices so well-balanced on fried chicken and the crying need for home-knitted menstrual cup holders, and raise up a little multicultural communications wiz to go on to some future GOP nomination for president. Henceforth let us recognize the critical difference between fucking underage goats and licking the creme cover over partly-covered aids: the first is spelt with a "T".

220 This story in Washpost http://tiny.cc/bg47u suggests it ain't just sex -- or if sex, it' ain't "just" sex. We got anonymous tips passed to Congress about midnight trips to launch the boat in Indiana state parks--towards an investigation. Don't need no stinking Congressional investigation into a little simple midnight shtooping under the moon in Hoosier Heaven. Also, don't need a lightening quick resignation to put a stop to a Congressional investigation into said simple midnight shtooping. And that "mutual" word -- that's just weird. I'm thinking maybe furries--and hoping that's all. "Everything leaks" -- Richard Cheney.

221 I was thinking furries, but it's a boat launch not a forest glade where little bunny rabbits and white-tails scamper about. It's got to be something more fishy than furry. Of course, they could have been doing some in-depth research on the limits to abstinence endurance and someone -- or something -- just snapped. We got to set a national shock scale of demerits, for the mfm, like drivers licenses: 1 point for doing anything with a staffer that's legal in at least 3 states. 2 points for doing a same-sex staffer in any 20 states. 3 points for discussing policy with a staffer in the all-together, same or opposite sex, any state. 6 points for been a member of the Democrat party caucus. Total 5 points: you must leave.

222 Really cool vid of Souder and his paid mistress making a video on abstinence, really a classic

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