Maybe He Should Just Keep His Family Values In His Pants

I know I seem to single out Republicans for their sex scandals. Sorry, but it can't helped. All too often Republican politicians take a holier-than-thou attitude and don't hesitate to tell the rest of us on how to live our lives. And more often than not, that means lecturing us sinners on the importance of family values.

So when one of those Bible thumping weasels gets embroiled in a sex scandal, I can't help but sit back and chortle with glee. Out of fairness to the Republicans, not all of their naughty actions involve the same sex. On occasion some of them have been known to get involved in heterosexual scandals. And when they do, it's a real humdinger.

Case in point: Vito Fossella, a GOP congressman from New York City, was arrested last week for drunk driving. While that's certainly embarrassing, it's certainly not as bad as, say, getting caught assuming a wide stance in an airport mens room.

What makes it interesting, however, is that Fossella told arresting officers he was on his way to pick up his sick daughter. This apparently made the New York Daily News just a wee bit suspicious, since his family lives in New York.

So the newspaper did a bit of poking around. Turns out that not only had the Congressman been carrying on a longtime affair with a female Air Force officer, but he had fathered a child by her.

I guess some Republicans just believe so strongly in family values that it's hard to confine those values to just one family!