Friday, October 12, 2012

And the biggest hypocrite in Congress is ...



He may not be crazy but this guy has to be in the running for the biggest hypocrite in Congress, though the competition is pretty stiff:
A pro-life, family-values congressman who worked as a doctor before winning election as a tea party-backed Republican had an affair with a patient and later pressured her to get an abortion, according to a phone call transcript obtained by The Huffington Post and verified as accurate.
This skeleton-in-the-closet story has emerged about Rep. Scott DesJarlais, a Tennessee Republican, who a decade ago was looking for a way out of an extramarital relationship and told his mistress to get an abortion for the sake of his marriage, the Huffington Post reported.
DesJarlais -- who supported  an anti-abortion bill that would have blocked abortions in cases of “forcible rape” in one of its early drafts -- demanded that his lover end her pregnancy and they tried to work out the details for travel to an Atlanta abortion clinic
In the conversation, he reportedly says: “You told me you’d have an abortion, and now we’re getting too far along without one.”
He talks repeatedly of getting the problem "solved" or "fixed" and eventually explains he's desperate to patch things up with his wife. When his wife later divorced him in 2001, court papers revealed that he admitted to having four affairs.
The lawmaker has faced accusations of hypocrisy before, according to the HuffPo. Although he voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, he later celebrated the construction of a health clinic in his district funded wholly by Obamacare.

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