I Bet Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) Is Wishing Sandy Was Heading Towards His District

The Romney campaign sent back a campaign contribution from Gambino Crime Family affiliated Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm, Staten Island's corrupt congressman. They also told corrupt Miami-Dade sleaze bag/congressman David Rivera that his campaign and their campaign are not working together and that he should stay clear of their events and not try to get anywhere near Romney or Ryan. And they took down the Rep. Scott DesJarlais endorsement from their website. DesJarlais is an embarrassment but Romney hasn't returned the $2,000 he gave the campaign. And with DesJarlais' fund-raising having almost completely dried up, he could use that $2,000 about now-- especially with the DCCC-affiliated House Majority PAC jumping into the race and spending $180,000 on the chillingly harsh ad above.

Many lo-info Democrats-- alas, probably most-- don't understand that the Democrat in the race, state Senator Eric Stewart, is also an anti-Choice fanatic. Just like they don't realize that Joe Donnelly's record on Choice is so extreme that their are loads of Republicans who are less destructive to women's health than he is-- regardless of the insanity of Richard Mourdock. This is what the DCCC and other Democratic Establishment insider groups give people as a choice-- no choice at all. DesJarlais-- absolutely horrible... on everything. Is Stewart any better? Maybe a tiny bit on a few things. Worth contributing money to? No, not at all-- not when you can give it to progressives that the DCCC is purposefully starving of funds so they can turn the House caucus further right, more pro-corporate and more amenable to the kind of corruption reptiles like Steve Israel thrives in.

If you're scratching your head and wondering who Tennessee backbencher and teabagger DesJarlais even is, you must have missed two news cycles that featured him. The first, over a week ago, exposed him as a hypocrite of the first order. As a doctor he seduced a patient (probably with the use of drugs), knocked her up and then repeatedly demanded she get an abortion. (Obviously he's vehemently anti-Choice in his deranged political career and has voted to force women to have bear the children of rapists, as well as to defund Planned Parenthood.) Then this weekend, another former patient came forward with her story about how her doctor, Scott DesJarlais, got her stoned on pot and screwed her several times over a six month period until she was finally able to cut him off.

On the heels of a sex scandal involving a female patient, another woman has acknowledged having a sexual relationship with physician and U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais while she was under his medical care.

The second woman described DesJarlais as "the nicest guy" and said he cooked dinner for her at their first get-together in 2000.

But she also said they smoked marijuana during their relationship and remembered DesJarlais prescribing her pain medication on dates at his home.

"His biggest thing that's completely unethical is him just picking up women while he's a doctor," the woman said in an interview last week. "I mean, seriously, that's his big no-no. ... He's just a hound."

The woman said the affair lasted six months and included mutual illicit drug use.

"Scott was just a regular guy," she said. "He smoked. I mean, he smoked pot. He [did] all that stuff."

...Sexual contact that occurs within the patient-physician relationship "constitutes sexual misconduct," according to the American Medical Association's code of ethics. At least five Tennessee physicians have been disciplined since 2005 for having consensual sexual relationships with patients, state records show.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group, filed an ethics complaint against DesJarlais after the abortion story emerged, but no action has been taken by the state.

In court filings, DesJarlais acknowledged having four extramarital affairs. He has acknowledged the accuracy of a transcript of a recorded conversation he had with an unnamed patient in which he pressed her to get an abortion.

Who remembers when Boehner and Cantor vowed to the American people that they would keep the Republicans in Congress from straying into corruption again the way they did when Tom DeLay was around. Cantor said there would be "zero tolerance" for ethics violations. Yet he and Boehner are covering up for Grimm and Rivera, not doing anything to get DesJarlais to step down and even covering up a serious national security threat posed by House Armed Services Committee chairman Buck McKeon, who may be passing sensitive and highly classified intelligence information to China through Organized Crime figure Sheldon Adelson. As bad as many of these Democrats being pushed by the DCCC are, if you vote for a Republican-- any Republican-- for Congress next Tuesday, you're slitting your own throat and the throats of your children and grandchildren.