Vito should have just kept quiet and taken the DUI

Have you been reading about the troubles of Republican Congressman Vito Fosella, from Staten Island? It is very sad and unfortunate.

First, he gets stopped for drunk driving and he hardly even has a buzz on. His alcohol level is like .11. Man, you can get that drunk sniffing corks. Then he makes a slip of the tongue to the cops that he has to pick up his daughter in the neighborhood, only he doesn't live in the neighborhood. It turns out he has an illegitimate child by a mistress living near by. This turns out to be a perfectly normal, heterosexual relationship with a woman of mature years, who is a retired military officer. Nothing wild and crazy about it and he seemed to be taking full parental responsibility for the child. He did have another wife, in another neighborhood, who was unaware of the mistress and child but nobody seemed to be suffering any particular deprivation.

I'm not sure he will have to resign from Congress but it looks like it and apparently his biggest donors have nixed any plans for further terms in office. This guy's life is pretty much over and all he was doing was having plain, vanilla, family style sex, not that there is anything wrong with that. If I agreed with his politics, I'd have no problem voting for him after this.

Republican politics seems very complicated. I don't really understand all the nuances of what is allowed and what is not. It doesn't seem to me that this guy did anything that McCain didn't do when he divorced his first wife and married his mistress. Ronald Reagan was already divorced when he married a pregnant Nancy Davis but it was a pretty slap dash affair and common knowledge that Nancy was little more than a studio provided "escort" to publicly accompany an aging, second rate star who didn't really like women all that much. Their marriage went on to be enshrined as one of the great love matches in American history and if her heels were a little round, nobody really cared. As far as the DUI goes, a lot of politicians have them. George Bush's early brushes with the law were all made to go away because of his fathers influence but Cheney has a shitload of DUIs and is known to sop up the sauce like a bar mop, even to this day. If he had any functional cardiac muscle left and had the desire, I'm sure he could get elected to any Congressional seat he wanted to, after he leaves office next year.

I wish Vito good luck. I hope he finds some employment out there to help out the women in his life with expenses, after he leaves office. You wouldn't think, in New York City, they would be so parochial about the domestic arrangements of their public servants. I mean, this guy ain't exactly Elliot Spitzer, is he?