Jilted Lover, the Lawmaker and a Crook
31 March 2006 8:56 am by Taylor Marsh
Jilted Lover, the Lawmaker and a Crook
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The two shared a pit-bull political style
and pushed Mr. DeLay to lead the charge in 1998 for the impeachment of President
Clinton. “This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down
is B.S.,” Mr. Scanlon once wrote to Mr. Rudy in an email published in “The
Breach,” a book by Peter Baker about the impeachment. “Not only do
you kick him — you kick him until he passes out — then beat him over the head
with a baseball bat — then roll him up in an old rug — and throw him off a
cliff into the pound surf below!!!!!” Behind
Unraveling Of DeLay's Team, A Jilted Fiancée
Ah, yes, hell's female
fury.
When will men learn?
It's amazing when you log on to your daily Wall Street Journal
to find a soap opera tale that is delicious enough to be on daytime TV.
I think the above is instructive because of the hearing on censure
today and the general dilemma of Democratic rebuttal to a president gone wild
with power grab. But Bill Clinton's indiscretion has nothing on the purportedly
pious president's club caught with their political morality down.
It's very interesting when the zipped up crowd get in trouble
because a man can't keep his manhood in his pants. Republicans are not immune,
in fact, they are equal in their sexual fervor, even clumsier. Just look at Newt Gingrich, who had the audacity to ask his wife for a divorce when she was recovering in the hospital from cancer and surgery.
What happened here is that Mr. Scanlon fell in love with a woman,
gave her the world, then found himself under the spell of a waitress, one report also said she was a manicurist, reneged on the former and got slammed by her, all the while the woman still wore his 4-carat diamond engagement ring. Those are the days of our Republican lives.
In September 2001, Mr. Scanlon, now divorced
from his wife, proposed to Ms. Miller before dinner at The Ivy, a Los Angeles
restaurant popular with celebrities. The couple planned a wedding at the beach
for the following summer. In January 2002 Ms. Miller quit her job as Mr. DeLay's
spokeswoman to prepare for the Aug. 10 wedding. The couple sent a save-the-date
card to guests that read: “The Celebration Begins.”The celebration never came. Mr. Scanlon broke off the
engagement that spring and began dating a 24-year-old waitress at a Rehoboth
Beach seafood restaurant.
Scanlon is now evidently married to the waitress who became his undoing. It's
obvious from the WSJ article, which is behind a pay firewall, that Emily J.
Miller got even.
After well over 15 years of relationship research — though I don't do it anymore
— I'm still overwhelmed by the naivete of men when it comes to the vehemence
with which a woman will go to reclaim her honor. Men continue to make the mistake
that women do not have sexual and emotional egos in matters of the heart. It's
a fatal error they make time and time again. It goes to the power of even modern
man's image of what a woman is today. In the end, there is nothing a woman won't do
to make a man pay for spurning her love, making her out a fool, especially when
there is another woman involved. Men are just no match for a woman done wrong.
Miller is just the latest exhibit A. The only difference in the press is that Scanlon is not a president. However, the lesson is the same.
