"That was a prostitute?"

Looking at reports of the Duke Cunningham bribery scandal, that the lubrication^[1] of certain Members of Congress and their staffs^[2] involved the provision of prostitutes, I can't help but think of Neil Bush....

The Bush divorce, completed in April after 23 years of marriage, was prompted in part by Bush's relationship with another woman. He admitted in the deposition that he previously had sex with several other women while on trips to Thailand and Hong Kong at least five years ago.

The women, he said, simply knocked on the door of his hotel room, entered and had sex with him. He said he did not know if they were prostitutes because they never asked for money and he did not pay them.

"Mr. Bush, you have to admit it's a pretty remarkable thing for a man just to go to a hotel room door and open it and have a woman standing there and have sex with her," Brown said.

"It was very unusual," Bush said.

One would hope that the defense contractors in the Duke case had their prostitutes wear some sort of ID, such that the people at the parties didn't suffer from similar confusion....

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Footnotes

1. No pun intended.

2. No pun intended. Really. Why don't you believe me?