Oh my! Yet another Republican Sex Scandal...

[kpete]

Oh my! Yet another Republican Sex Scandal...
by dengre
Wed Sep 19, 2007 at 12:01:33 AM PDT
Let’s go back a few years.

Say you’re a Republican Congressman, just coming off your failed effort to Impeach Bill Clinton for lying about consensual sex.

What do you do next?

Well, if you were a Team Abramoff Congressman, you might travel 9,000 miles to engage in sexual tourism in the strip clubs of Saipan.

According to a new book that came out today, that is just what they did.

The book is Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the Global Economy by John Bowe.

It presents a guessing game about which Congressmen were running to the back room for blow jobs (only five were on the trip), but that news is just a doorway into a larger Republican Sex Scandal.

Later that weekend, a group of at least three congress members took their fact-finding mission to a Filipina strip club called Orchids, owned by a local businessman named Benigno Fitial. The club, was popular with local government officials and visiting VIPs looking for a good time. Later, the gang moved on to another club, called Russian Roulette, which featured Russian strippers. According to one source who was professionally obligated to accompany the delegation around the island, "I've never seen grown men—they were just like kids!" He reported that he sat next to one congressman, who was neither drinking nor getting into the action, while the others "were running to the back of the place into these little stalls to get blow jobs. That's why they were there." I spoke with the congressman he sat next to. He admitted to being in the club but described it not as a strip club but as a karaoke bar. He assured me, "There really wasn't much going on." Neither the congressman nor my source were able to remember the names of the allegedly misbehaving congressmen.

And the Congressional sex tourism is just one aspect of the growth of Modern Slavery in the shadows of globalization that Bowe exposes in his book:

all the sordid details, plus names at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/19/2522/65464

[flashl]

1. Why don't we just give Congress a time out?

Since they are behaving as kids.

[cali]

2. this is a long fascinating story and

it ain't just about sex. Read it!

[Vinca]

3. Names, we want names.

And can we give the Medal of Freedom to a stripper for blowing Tom Delay? That's above and beyond the call of duty.

[LeftHander]

4. Sensenbrenner Congress's big tripper took trips to SE Asia a few years ago

Singapore, Taipei, Bangkok

http://www.legistorm.com/trip/approver/Rep_F_James_Sensenbrenner_Jr/472/personal.html

Wouldn't surprise me if he did a little sex tour while on a "fact finding trip" for The RIAA. A week in Bangkok and the year before 4 days in Singapore. In 2004 he spent 8 days in Singapore.

Certainly opportunities for a little "tourism" in the region.

[spindoctor]

5. The worst part is that its probably easier to nail them on the sex than on the corruption.

Sex = bad
Corruption = free speech

[Felinity]

6. Let's have a truth party

How about a lie detector test for any public official who went to the Marianas on government business?

Maybe then we could get the Congress approval level up to 20%, after the torrent of resignations.