The C-Street Kerfuffle.

(h/t to Jason Linkins.)

Philandering Republicans Mark Sanford and John Ensign have connections to a house in Washington referred to as C Street, and are affiliated with a religious group known as The Family, who organize the National Prayer Breakfast. Sanford and Ensign are getting "counseling" at C Street for their wayward ways, while Ensign actually lives there (no word on if the joint has a hot tub.)

Also in residence is Tennessee Republican Congressman Zach Wamp, and he's out of sorts over a report Rachel Maddow did, based on his hometown paper, the Knoxville News Sentinel:

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Judging by the foibles of Christian hypocrites like Sanford and Ensign, there's more talk about sex at C Street than a strip club at Happy Hour.

It must suck to have spent all that time preaching to others on how to live their lives only to have it become public knowledge that they were "do as I say, not as I do" kind of guys, eh?

Busted!

And as for Rep. Wamp, keeping secrets and bitching about roommates seems a tad tacky, even for uptight GOP Confederates.

Sen. Ensign, Can You Keep A Promise?

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From the SeattlePI.com:

Sen. John Ensign, R-Nevada, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012, on Tuesday admitted a lengthy affair with a campaign aide who was married to a member of the Senator's staff.

"I violated my vows of marriage," said Ensign, a conservative and born-again Christian active in the Promise Keepers organization.

The two-term senator said the affair began late in 2007 and ended in August of 2008. He did not identify the "woman in question" - to use a phrase made famous by former Sen. Gary Hart - but she apparently worked for Ensign's Battleborn Political Action Committee.

Ensign's paramour and her husband - described by the senator as "close friends of mine" - no longer work for Ensign.

According to the AP, Ensign has been a rising star among conservatives, speaking out against President Barack Obama's stimulus package, statehood for the District of Columbia and union-organizing legislation and in favor of gun owners' rights.

Ensign called Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky "an embarrassing moment for the country," and dubbed airport bathroom hook-up artist--fellow Republican Larry Craig--a "disgrace" for the Idaho senator's stalled amour.

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