Two Nevada Republicans Call for Ensign to Bow Out

[malaise]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/us/politics/09ensign.html?ref=politics
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WASHINGTON — Senator John Ensign’s political troubles worsened Thursday as more Republican colleagues from his home state of Nevada said that the ethics investigations surrounding him have threatened to damage the party statewide.

Two Republican leaders in Las Vegas called Thursday for Mr. Ensign to resign, a day after Representative Dean Heller, a Republican from northern Nevada, said that the ethics inquiries were causing “real problems” for party members around the state.

Their comments came on the heels of a front-page article Monday in The Las Vegas Sun that read much like a political obituary. It said Nevada Republicans were upset “that Ensign seems oblivious to the collateral damage caused by his actions, and unwilling to make the matter disappear by resigning.”
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Bye bye Ensign!!

[gratuitous]

1. They want his resignation, not because he's a scumbag

But because having to explain Ensign's scumbaggery is cramping their style. They're not concerned with the corruption, or the damage done to the system, or the trust destroyed; they want "to make the matter disappear." See? Ensign's not a senator any more. Problem all solved and gone.

[malaise]

2. Yes indeed

He's really cramping their style. Bet you know I'm lovin' it. :popcorn:

[murphyj87]

3. Take with him...

Ensign should take his bribe negotiator and unemployment staller, Tom Coburn, with him when he resigns. That's perhaps why he would resign, to save Tom Coburn's neck.

[joeybee12]

4. I don't want him to!

He's hurting the GOP here in Nevada by staying. So I say STAY!!!!