Need a good booze-and-sex-scandal distraction?

[babylonsister]

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/05/06/need-a-good-booze-and-sex-scandal-distraction.aspx

Need a good booze-and-sex-scandal distraction?

So how are Hill Democrats whiling away this stressful election day? At least some staffers are watching in shock and awe as the melodrama of Congressman Vito Fossella, Republican of Staten Island, morphs from a run-of-the-mill DUI arrest into a potential sex scandal into--thanks to the lascivious nature of his home state tabs--grossly speculative rumors that the married congressman has a three-year-old love child with a retired Air Force officer.

Bad news for the congressman: He's up for reelection this year.

Good news for the congressman: With six months until election day, he still has plenty of time to check himself into rehab, confess to his priest, smooth everything out with the wife, and declare himself a reformed sinner.

--Michelle Cottle

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/05/06/2008-05-06_vito_fossella__pal_were_pickled_at_pub_h.html

Vito Fossella & pal were pickled at pub, had to be kicked out, waiters say

BY RICHARD SISK and MIKE JACCARINO in Washington and MATTHEW LYSIAK and TINA MOOORE in New York
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Tuesday, May 6th 2008, 4:00 AM



A hammered Vito Fossella and a stumbling drinking buddy were asked to leave a Washington bar hours before the Staten Island congressman was busted for drunken driving, witnesses said Monday.

"I can't imagine him getting into a car. They were {both} incapable of driving," Josh Hahn, a waiter who was working Wednesday night at the Logan Tavern, said of Fossella and his plastered pal named "Brian."

Hahn and Andrew Howells, general manager of the Logan, said Fossella came to the trendy bar about 10 p.m., after a busy day of backslapping.

The GOP representative attended a morning ceremony for the Irish prime minister and President Bush's White House welcome for the Super Bowl champion New York Giants in the afternoon.

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[KansDem]

1. GOP = "Gang Of hyPocrites" (nt)

[mike_c]

2. not in so many words...

...but good booze and sex would be a welcome distraction. :evilgrin:

[babylonsister]

5. I second that!

:toast: :spray:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. Next up:

The Good Congresscritter and his wife announce he has received forgiveness from God. Media nods. Case closed.

[babylonsister]

6. Maybe a little rehab first to convince us! nt

[Ian David]

4. More Repuke "family values" at work. n/t

[Bozita]

7. Here's a NYDN pic of Laura Fay ...

[kimmerspixelated]

8. No, thanks, my life is complicated enough!

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Hmmm the whole things reeks of a plot for a movie

haven't these been the last seven years

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Hmmm the whole things reeks of a plot for a movie

haven't these been the last seven years