Rangle and Ensign, Royalty in Washington?

Wouldn’t it be nice if all our elected Congressmen and Congresswomen got the kind of harsh treatment that those of us in Carson City get when on of Kenny Furlong’s black shirts pull us over for not keeping a single lane?
Well, seems there is hope, however faint. Charley Rangle, until recently chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee — the important one that makes all the choices on money — has stepped away temporarily of his job and probably will not get it back when the Ethics Committee find that he had violated Congressional ethics with freeloading trips to the sunny Carribean and getting a deal on apartment rentals in New York City. Charley has been in the House of almost 30 years and he sure learned something about ethics over those years. Not that he bother to pay attention; he was too powerful, he thought.
So what happens to Charley? A wrist slap at most and reelection since he is black and his Congressional district is mostly black. Sail on, oh, listing ship of state!
Johnny Boy
Which brings us to our esteemed junior senator in Washington, Sir John Ensign. Oh, I know; we don’t get knighted in the USA, but don’t try to tell Johnny that; he’s royalty and entitled, he’s sure. Congress has been looking at his confession of adultery and lying for months now, ever since it came out that Johnny gave his former mistress and staff member some $25,000 in hush money from campaign funds. Plus almost $100,000 from his family as more hush money to the mistress’ family. Also, Johnny apparently helped a former staffer, who just happened to be his mistress’ husband, entree into lobbying, despite rules to the contrary by the Congress.
However, Johnny is serving us well in Washington. When Ms. Sotomayor was nominated for the Supreme Court Johnny got up and said she was unqualified, despite her incredible record of pulling herself up by intelligence and hard work, something Johnny is quite unaccustomed to, being born of wealthy parents. He won a family-financed vet degree (how well did he do in grades?Like to know). As a horse doctor yet. For Johnny to rant about a woman of Sotomayor’s massive achievements suggests he has no idea of how the rest of us live and work.
Happily, about all Johnny has been doing of late is going along with Harry Reid’s legislative ideas, piggybacking on the senior senator’s ideas. I may have missed something Johnny has done of merit after all the lies and posturing he has offered us, but it surely wasn’t veery important. Sure he’s keeping quiet for a year or so hoping that we’ll all forget his immoral and quite un-Biblical dishonest antics in 2012. Maybe he’s planning to return to being a vet, that is, if he ever was one. Better ask the horses about that.
But Friday night on Jon Ralston’s “Face to Face” on Channel 4, all the experts agreed that Johnny was going to have to resign in the wake of the latest news that the Feds had copies Johnny wrote on behalf of his ex-mistress’ husband. Ralston summed it up: Ensign is “morally bankrupt.”
Life with the cows and dogs may give Ensign a clearer outlook on life.
Hey, that other Guv
Now, about that South Carolina guv who ran off to Argentina to smooch with his mistress, not much news except maybe his wife is going to cut him free.
What is it our Congressmen don’t get about mistresses and the like? Maybe Johnny could enlighten us on how to be part of a Christian morality committee as the same time he was bedding a staffer. How was it that the night-time comic did it? Just fessed up, and his blackmailer is en route to the slammer.
Now our guv is going to run again and e’s confident the campaign contributions will star flowing now that he can accept them. As an ex-fighter jock he should be able to see all the bandits circling around him when he’s out of ammo. Sue Lowden is gunning for him, and she’s a very accurate shooter.
—Sam Bauman