{"id":233,"date":"2009-07-09T13:53:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T17:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/07\/09\/sleaze-ball\/"},"modified":"2009-07-09T13:53:17","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T17:53:17","slug":"sleaze-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/07\/09\/sleaze-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleaze Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/36626-1.html\">This is incredible<\/a>.&#160; As has been reported, Sen. Tom Colburn knew of Sen Ensign\u2019s affair.&#160; He was there during a confrontation between Ensign and the husband of the woman he was seeing.<\/p>\n<p>Now Colburn says he won\u2019t testify, whether called by a court or the Congressional ethics committee.&#160; The reason he gives is another example of the righteous right\u2019s political bullshit.&#160; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) on Thursday said he would not testify in court or before the Ethics Committee about any advice he gave Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) on how to handle his affair with a former staffer, citing constitutional protections for communications during religious counseling, as well as the patient confidentiality privilege. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was counseling him as a physician and as an ordained deacon. &#8230; That is privileged communication that I will never reveal to anybody. Not to the Ethics Committee, not to a court of law, not to anybody,\u201d Coburn said. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These guys who hide behind some flimsy religious facade is one reason many of us think of the religious right as a bunch of sleaze ball political opportunists who use religion to advance a dangerous, treasonous agenda.&#160; They are America\u2019s equivalent of the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is incredible.&#160; As has been reported, Sen. Tom Colburn knew of Sen Ensign\u2019s affair.&#160; He was there during a confrontation between Ensign and the husband of the woman he was seeing. Now Colburn says he won\u2019t testify, whether called by a court or the Congressional ethics committee.&#160; The reason he gives is another example&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/07\/09\/sleaze-ball\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61,12,102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}