... Republican Christopher Lee had just begun his second term representing New York's 26th District. Just hours after the scandal broke on Gawker.com, Lee announced that he was quitting Congress, and a clerk read his letter of resignation on the House floor...
Complete moron, deserves to be gone.
Regardless of political party or profession, whether it's Chris Lee or John Edwards or Vito Fiscela (another NY Republican) or Bill Clinton (before AND after his presidency) or Elliot Spitzer or...it never fails to amaze me how successful men are willing to risk everything ... for sex.
These are no longer the days of JFK. These people should really, REALLY know better and if they don't, they deserve whatever consequences come their way.
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
