Friday Fish Wrap: January 16, 2010

Haiti.

That seems to define the week for me. What about you?

Whatever else I was in a twit over, I’ve forgotten about it, having the horrific, heartbreaking images of human suffering burned into my retinas and heart. If this isn’t the worst of the worst, then I don’t know what would be.

All of our national soap opera over health care reform, the nuttiness of teabaggers and Sarah, who did what to whom pales by comparison. What an arrogant, self absorbed bunch we can be at times.

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Don't cry for them, Argentina. They're hot. Steamy. And, Republicans

It’s been an absolute watershed of upstanding, family oriented, superbly righteous Republicans with a ‘bright future in the party’ taking a dip in the old ‘cheatin’ on your wife’ pool of late.

First the revelations of Nevada Governor, Jim Gibbons’ extra-marital affairs with not one, but count ‘em, two or more ‘ladies’, then the stunning confession under threat of extortion by Senator John Ensign, rounded out by the now not so puzzling disappearance of South Carolina Republican Governor Mark Sanford.

I need a scorecard - or dance card. Each and every time I walk through the living room at my house and see the photo of me standing between Senators Reid and Ensign, I remember thinking: Ensign. Hottie.

Ah, how things change.

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