Fran Langum at Blue Gal is just awesome in her introduction to the equally awesome David Letterman.

Sanford, Vitter, and Ensign need two hours in a Powerpoint presentation on “How to Deal with Your Sex Scandal” with Dave. The slides include, 1. You might lose your job, and probably should. 2. Get a sense of humor. 3. Don’t be an effin’ hypocrite.

Do it like this:

The things you don’t do are:

Decide to be the point person to criticize ACORN and prostitution. (Vitter)

Break the law in order to make your staffer, who is also your mistress’s husband go away. (Ensign)

And above all, you boys, don’t belong to a political party that thinks abstinence only education health policy is a good idea.

‘Cause that’s a joke. And it isn’t funny.

She said it here.

I’d use a different word than awesome to describe having sex with one’s employees, but I thoroughly admire Letterman for owning up to it, for defying someone else who sought to exploit it, for not having his partner(s) into stand-by-your-man charades, and for acknowledging and lamenting the potential consequences but neither whining about nor denying responsibility for those consequences.