Evangelical Extremists Try To Take Over GOP From C Street Cult House

C Street House, the secretive religious enclave on Capitol Hill thrust into the news by its links to three political sex scandals, those of Gov. Mark Sanford; former Rep. Chip Pickering, R-Miss., who allegedly rendezvoused at the C Street House with his mistress, an executive in the industry for which he then became a lobbyist; and Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev. Although Sanford declared today that his scandal will actually turn out to be good for the people of South Carolina because he's now more firmly in God's control, the once-favored GOP presidential prospect will finish out his term and fade away. And Ensign's residence at the C Street House during his own extramarital affair now threatens to end a career that he and other Republicans hoped would lead him to the White House says Jeff Sharlet.

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• chip pickering
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• evangelical
• extremists
• rachel maddow
• jeff sharlet

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I love Republicans. If we put them in a zoo I PROMISE I would not poke them with sticks.

[TheSpankymonkey]

As long as i can poke them... I will send you the videos... hehe.