Mark Souder Resignation

Last week, Indiana was buzzing about Rep. Mark Souder's resignation from Congress. Souder, yet another Christian conservative "family values" politician caught committing adultery, comes across as emotional but not willing to take complete responsibility for his actions or his hypocrisy. He blames his "all consuming" job for making his life abnormal and depriving of him of time for family, church, and community. However, if part of the reason the job is "all consuming" is because you're spending time having trysts with a part-time staffer, it's a bit off a hard sell. Throw in the YouTube footage of Souder and his mistress Tracy Jackson taping an abstinence video and, well, the jokes sort of write themselves. For example, we don't know for sure, but Souder & Jackson may end up the first illicit lovers in YouTube history to have made both a sex video *and* a no-sex video. Anyway, my additional reactions to all of this can be found here .