Tarnished Ensign's Next Move
Sally Denton is a writer based in Santa Fe and author of six books, including The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America and the forthcoming The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas (Bloomsbury Press).
The sex scandal-marred Nevada Republican is finished politically-his party is mobilizing against him, the governor is plotting his replacement. But the pesky senator refuses to quit. Sally Denton on the countdown to his resignation.
GOP Plots Ensign's Ouster
Margaret Carlson is a columnist for Bloomberg News. She was a columnist and deputy Washington bureau chief for Time magazine.
Republicans are turning against Senator Ensign in the wake of revelations that his parents paid off his mistress. The Daily Beast's Margaret Carlson on the GOP plan to save his seat in 2012.
'Mom, Dad—I Need $96K'
Kathleen Parker is a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group and author of Save the Males.
John Ensign admitted this week that his parents paid off his mistress. The Daily Beast's Kathleen Parker wonders how exactly the senator hit up his aging parents for money.
GOP Lothario Losers
John Batchelor is radio host of the John Batchelor Show in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
The twin disasters of Mark Sanford and John Ensign expose the Republican Party apparatus for the laziness, pettiness and emptiness of what is left of the leadership. But the crash of Sanford-much higher on the 2012 list-eclipses that of Ensign.
Sin City Senator
Sally Denton is a writer based in Santa Fe and author of six books, including The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America and the forthcoming The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas (Bloomsbury Press).
In laissez-faire Nevada, anything goes: except sexual hypocrisy and casino-tainted politicians. The problem for John Ensign, writes Sally Denton, is that he has violated both taboos.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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