Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) is a pro-life Republican who has long run on family values. Those values however were no where in sight in the recent findings of the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners which ordered DesJarlais to pay a fine for having sexual relations with patients and allegedly pressuring one patient to get an abortion. However, the cost of such conduct will be $500.
DesJarlais ran on the slogan:
“Pro-life and PROUD OF IT: Dr. D’s Prescription for Tennessee: Protect our traditional Tennessee values: Scott is pro-gun, pro-life and pro-marriage and PROUD OF IT.”
Well, at least he is still pro-gun.
DesJarlais responded to the fine by saying “I take responsibility for past mistakes and am happy to get this resolved.”
He has announced that “God’s forgiven me. … I simply ask my fellow Christians and constituents to consider doing the same for me.”
Just to be clear, again, Desjarlais was accused of pressuring one of the women to get an abortion and allegedly prescribed her unnecessary pain medication and smoked marijuana with her.
However, he has not escaped responsibility. He will pay $500.
Unbelievable! And here in Colorado, two of our state senators (including our most accomplished one) are being targeted for recall simply for voting yes (along with the state senate majority) on some very minor new gun safety laws.
The religious right wing fundamentalists of the Republican base that make up the Tea Party, and are being used by the Koch Bros., are the poster of hypocrisy. There are so many closet gays in the Republican ranks, that if they were to come out, they would have to explain their stance on gay rights issues. They use Biblical scripture to justify their hatred of gays, abortion clinics, liberals, Muslims, or anyone on their hate list, while at the same time knowing they are hypocrites! The Christian Coalition and Moral Majority helped put Bush in office (along with the Supreme Court), and ushered in the Neo-Con Agenda (Wolfowitz Doctrine). Then, memos were sent down line from the Bush Whitehouse that had Biblical scripture attached (some were on torture). This all indicates that this is more than a war about controlling and dominating the world’s resources, it is also about using the Bible to justify preemptive strikes, extraordinary rendition, torture, summary executions, and illegal kidnapping and indefinite detention without charge, counsel or trial. It is a religious war against Muslims (who occupy oil rich land) or Jihad (Holy War, or racist war). It’s about stripping away Habeas Corpus, and Posse Commitatus, and the Bill of Rights. PNAC needed a “New Pearl Harbor” to usher in the New American Century, and they got it on 911. That was the justification for the Patriot Act, & NDAA.
Ron, you are coming on a little strong. If what you are saying was really true about my comrades in the Republican Party, I would not be one.
People are going to use the Bible to put a context to all kinds of things they do, but that does not mean they are waging a religious war against Muslims, or that they are against Habeas Corpus and the Bill of Rights. Furthermore, President Obama is a Democrat and has done more Drone strikes than Bush ever did: >300 to 50.
One thing you are right about is that they have used 911 to justify taking away our civil liberties. We need to wake up and persuade politicians to reverse this. Now Homeland Security is constructing a building costing us $3.9 Billion. By way of comparison, the Pentagon cost $83 million. The new NSA spy facility is 7 times bigger than the Pentagon and costs $1.2 Billion. What else is big government up to?
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This is absurd. But, that is humanity. Let us be forgiving.
Even the Republican side of the editorial page of the Chattanooga paper proclaimed this man to be an embarrassment. But, the “good” people elected him anyway. The concept of forgiveness down south applies only to people who have the Bible and an anti-abortion sign in one hand and a gun in the other.
Mark Collins
] I’m repulsed. I hope others are. Why do people elect guys like him?
] Is there a logical explanation that I am failing to see?
Any wingnut can spew the right dogma and get elected. Those willing to vote for them aren’t willing to think, they’re only listening for the right bell so they can start salivating.
leejcaroll
] ] nick spinelli wrote
] ] “Honor and personal responsibility is gone in politics.”
] Nick, In the medical profession too.
Of course. Just ask those tortured at Guantanamo or Nataline Sarkisyan. Profit margins and careerism determine medical care nowadays.
Oh wait, you can’t ask those people I mentioned. Those being tortured are held incommunicado, and Sarkisyan was murdered by CIGNA so the company could save shareholders a few bucks. They’re not around to speak.
Mespo,
The Corleones were way too ethical for this guy!
The most important question here is why was he able to retain his license to practice medicine?
NeighborDaveSays: If I made this up, you’d call me a liar!
This is the kind of guy you would beat up if he lived in your neighborhood as a kid.
Standard GOP mantra, God has forgiven me….. The do as I say, not as I do party…..
Pro-life huh? So he wants to make women live by rules he didn’t think applied to him and the women in his life. His hypocrisy is matched only by his arrogance.
Shiny, pointy headed dood with “brain” storms inside his “intestines.”
Family values? Whose family? The Corleones!
Mike S
“I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.”
― Al Pacino
Pete9999,
Wickedly funny, but highly cogent ss usual.
It’s becoming rather sad to see that we no longer have the best congressmen money can buy.
There must be plenty of former congressmen rolling in their graves. The spirits groaning with discontent echoes in the former Tammany Hall.
Mark Collins:”Why do people elect guys like him? Is there a logical explanation that I am failing to see?”
The people that elect these clowns elect them because fools like this guy mirror their own personal, bigoted, and discredited views. Oh, and they’re from Tennessee (you may substitute Texas, Florida, Arizona, Alabama…you get the picture.)