Point. Agreed. To choose public humiliation over political pressures ... commendable. Private lives (that are not expressly illegal) should not concern the general public, so long as the work is getting done satisfactorily.

Actually, more Democrats (Spitzer, Adams, McGreevy, Clinton, Frank, Weiner, all three Kennedy's, Dodd, Condit, Edwards, etc, etc) get caught in Sex Scandals then Republicans. It's about 3 to 1 right now. Not to mention when Democrats do it there is usually laws being broken in the process or to cover it up.

It doesn't matter if they have an affair(Yea it's wrong and it sucks), whats bad is when they commit crimes related to it or it distracts them or prevents them from doing or being able to do their job.

I did post about Ensign and being that Gingrich was so long ago that there probably wern't forums like these then, no. Lee did nothing illegal and wasn't really a scandal. Also, Gingrich's wasn't illegal so it's not as big of a deal at all.

Ensign is a whole different story all together. What makes it worse is I know him personally and he is definately a decent guy and was a good public servant who screwed up big. With that being said I think he should be prosecuted and he should have resigned sooner. I also said that from day one as well, so don't be so quick to judge.

Not to mention your doctor is not a representation of you.

Also polititians are held to a higher standard, it is part of the job.

Someone is not going to go out of their way to get balckmail a Doctor to screw something up on you or an average citizen. With a polititian there are a lot of rewards for blackmail and is a better target. Honestly someone wont go out of their way to blackmail you but they will for a polititian.

But their private lives ARE public, it comes with the job and they knows that going into it. Perception is Reality.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi Sunday called for an ethics panel investigation of Rep. David Wu following a published allegation that a young woman reported he'd engaged in "aggressive and unwanted sexual behavior."

The Oregon Democrat has been facing calls to resign, but remained silent Sunday over the allegation.

In a statement Sunday night, Pelolsi asked the "Ethics Committee to initiate an investigation into the allegations against Congressman Wu."

Pelosi had a telephone conversation with Wu Saturday but neither politician disclosed any details.

The Democratic leader says she will send a letter to leaders of the Republican-led House Monday formally asking for the probe.


Wu's only response so far was a brief statement Friday that called the reports serious.

Earlier Sunday, his spokesman, Erik Dorey, said he couldn't comment on what Wu did on Sunday, or who he might have consulted.

Spokesmen for both Gov. John Kitzhaber and the statewide party organization said Wu hadn't reached out to top Democrats in Oregon.

"At this point, I don't believe those conversations have happened," said Trent Lutz, executive director of the state party.

Lutz and other party members said they hoped Wu would respond directly to the allegation reported by the Oregonian newspaper. The paper quoted sources who said a young woman left voicemail at Wu's Portland office earlier this year accusing him of an unwanted sexual encounter three weeks after last year's election.

In Wu's district stretching from downtown Portland to the Pacific Ocean in northwest Oregon, county-level leaders said they, too, were hoping for more from Wu.

"I'm waiting for more details to come out," said Cris Land, party chair in Columbia County.

The heart of the 1st Congressional District is Washington County, a center of high tech and suburban development and the home of David Robinson, a former Navy officer and municipal official who lost by a margin of 4-1 to Wu in the Democratic primary last year. Wu faces primary challengers next year, as well.

Robinson said Sunday he will ask fellow activists in Washington County on Wednesday to approve a vote of no confidence in Wu, calling the woman's allegation "just another in a long line of disappointments and improprieties."

Wu has won seven terms. In 2004, he won despite acknowledging a decades-old college incident in which he tried to force a former girlfriend to have sex. Voters said they disliked an opponent's attempt to use that against Wu.

In January this year, seven staffers resigned because of behavior that included sending a photo of himself in a tiger costume to a staff member and an angry public speech. Wu attributed those to a period of mental health challenges that began in 2008 as marital issues led to separation from his wife.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/24/pelosi-calls-for-ethics-probe-into-wu-sex-allegations/#ixzz1T5sm5lbL

Wow, Democrats are already rusing to defend him saying they don't believe it happened when this guy has a history of instability, mental instability, sexual problems and forced sexual encounters.

If this was a Reublican they would have already ran him through the ringer about a dozen times.

wait, isnt the government of the people and by the people, and dont the people have a LARGE percentage of adulterers?



Politicians represent my POLITICAL interests, they arent a representation of me as a person,,,,

They are to be professional at all times. They are held to a higher standard.

not by me, I just need them to do their job like the rest of us and I let their private life be their private life (ie, no more my business than anyone elses private lives)

And thats how we ended up with Jimmy Carter watching Pornography in the White House movie theater, Bill Clinton and his history of sexual assaults, affairs and perversion and now Barry Obama and his immature, inexperienced, arrogant and profanity laced attitude.