On the QT over on C Street

Following up on Dan Burke’s post yesterday about the mysterious “C Street house” that is home to a number of congressional Bible studies and congressional bunkmates … WaPo has an A1 story this morning that takes a closer look inside the house (which is run by the overly secretive Christian group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_(Christian_political_organization)”>The Fellowship), and it’s […]

Following up on Dan Burke’s post yesterday about the mysterious “C Street house” that is home to a number of congressional Bible studies and congressional bunkmates …

WaPo has an A1 story this morning that takes a closer look inside the house (which is run by the overly secretive Christian group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_(Christian_political_organization)”>The Fellowship), and it’s worth a read. But here’s my favorite part:

“The house pulsed with backstage intrigue, in the days and months before the Sanford and Ensign scandals — dubbed “two lightning strikes” by a high-ranking congressional source. First, at least one resident learned of both the [Gov. Mark] Sanford and [Sen. John] Ensign affairs and tried to talk each politician into ending his philandering, a source close to the congressman said. Then the house drama escalated. It was then that Doug Hampton, the husband of Ensign’s mistress, endured an emotional meeting with Sen. Tom Coburn, who lives there, according to the source. The topic was forgiveness.


“He was trying to be a peacemaker,” the source said of Coburn, a Republican from Oklahoma.”

Forgiveness, or trying to extinguish a political scandal before it went public?

(photo credit: Washington Post/Bill O’Leary)

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