Nevada's adulterous Republican senator

"I deeply regret and am very sorry for my actions," said Nevada's Republican Sen. John Ensign at a press conference in Las Vegas.

The senator called this press conference in order to confess.

But despite this event being a press conference, he declined to confer with any of the assembled members of the press. Instead, he made his statement of confession and walked out – without naming his carnal correspondent in this nine months of adultery. (Her name came out later: Cindy Hampton, a former member of his campaign staff, the wife of Doug Hampton, his former top legislative aide.)

It is now known that motivating The Ensign Confession was the fact that Husband Hampton had gone with his understandable grievance to a major television news channel.

Just how deeply Sen. Ensign Regrets – and How Very Sorry He Is for having betrayed his wife and sexually preyed on a staffer's wife is seen in his refusal to resign from the U.S. Senate.

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He did, however, one day after that confessional press "conference," resign his chairmanship of the Republican Policy Committee, the fourth-ranking spot in the Senate GOP chain of command.

This is a man who voluntarily vowed that he would remain faithful to his wife – only to spend nine months violating this marriage oath while cohabitating with one of his assistants who is the wife of another.

Is THIS the kind of morality the United States should have on the Finance, Budget and Homeland Security committees or the United State Senate in general?

Sen. Ensign could have – and should have – said at his press "conference":

"In 1998, I called on President Bill Clinton to resign as president after his lying was exposed concerning his under-the-desk oral sex with a White House intern named Monica. I said that Clinton sent taxpayer-paid staff out to lie for him about the misuse of public office. The president had no credibility left.

"Now it has become nationally known that I have also committed adultery with a staffer.

"I am therefore resigning from the United States Senate – as I once called President Clinton to do – because if I did not resign, I would be a notorious hypocrite as well as an adulterer."

But Sen. Ensign did NOT say this truth about himself – as he once enunciated the truth about Clinton, a massively adulterous carnal misuser of this White House intern.

Sen. Ensign might also have said: "I am resigning from the Senate also because I played the leading role in an effort to try to force my fellow Republican senator, Larry Craig of Idaho, to resign after he was caught in an airport men's room by a male police officer in a sex sting."

But Sen. Ensign did NOT apply his Clinton-Craig Resignation Standard to himself.

Instead, from Kevin Madden, Republican consultant and senior adviser to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, there came the following notable morality for high office:

"This news is a personal issue affecting John Ensign, his family and their privacy. I'd argue that it's an analytical research for opponents to try to assign a negative political impact on the fortunes of the national party because of this revelation."

TRANSLATION: "So what the hell is wrong with nine months of adultery with the wife of a staffer? Surely, public figures are entitled to orgasmic relief with the help – considering the tremendous pressures of their job! …

"Despite the fact that Sen. Ensign was chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, the No. 4 leadership position for Senate Republicans, he was surely entitled to such a personal issue that affects only himself and his family and their privacy." (!)