Hell Hath No Fury

Some people just make me shake my head in wonder. 

Take the case of one Leisha Pickering, the estranged wife of former Repugnant Congressman Chip Pickering of Mississippi; good ol' boy Chip served twelve years in Congress before retiring in January. His reason for retiring, given last summer, was that he wanted more time with his, um, family.

But that part isn't what makes me wonder. Repugnants and they family values platforms are the norm.....until they falter. No, the part that causes me wonder, is that the soon-to-be ex-Missus Pickering is suing one Elizabeth Creekmore Byrd, claiming her adulterous relationship with Chipper ruined the Pickerings’ marriage and his political career. Which also put poor Leisha out of the public eye, and out of the glory of being the political wife of a once rising star.

Leisha Pickering says in her lawsuit that Creekmore Byrd originally “met and had a romantic relationship with [Chip] Pickering which ended prior to their college graduation." Then Chip met and married the lovely Leisha, but kept meeting, or, as the kids are apt to say, hooking up with, “Creekmore Byrd for a number of years....”

The Once-and-Now-Soon-To-Be-Former Missus Pickering alleges that Creekmore Byrd’s ”extramarital relationship” with Chip Pickering began again while he was "a United States congressman prior to and while living in the well-known C Street Complex in Washington, D.C.”

Sidenote: The C Street Complex, which is also called a Christian Fellowship House, has come to the forefront of the news lately because it seems that many of our elected officials who like to get a little sump'n, sump'n on the side have resided there. people like, Senator John Ensign, admitted adulterer from Nevada, and even our own Argentinean trail hiking adulterous governor, Mark Sanford. Seems like C Street is a hotbed, excuse the pun, of marital infidelity for the Repugnants.

Meanwhile, back to Leisha.

She also claims that Creekmore Byrd secretly rented a lodge near the Pickering family while they were on a ski vacation in Colorado. Is that a surprise, knowing how much the Repugs like to, ahem, hike? And I've heard there's some good, er, hiking to be found in Colorado.

But the greatest kicker to Leisha's claim is that Chipper turned down a lucrative post as a replacement to Trent Lott because his little Chippie asked him to do it. Leisha says that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour offered good ol' Chipper Trent's seat in 2007, but that Creekmore Byrd “insisted that if Pickering accepted the position in the Senate that their relationship would not be able to continue.” Barbour eventually named Roger Wicker to Lott’s seat and his spokesman denied that Chipper was ever offered Lott’s Senate seat. Uh huh, yeah. Okay.

It seems like that may have been the straw that broke Leisha's back. She left Chip in 2008 and he subsequently filed for divorce from her. In her lawsuit against Creekmore Byrd--how much do I love saying that?--Leisha is seeking unspecified damages.

In response to his estranged wife's lawsuit, Chip Pickering said he did not want to engage in a public fight with her over his relationship with Creekmore Byrd. "I still believe it is in the best interest of our five boys if our differences are resolved privately and before the appropriate court and not in the media," Pickering said in a statement. But, interestingly enough, good ol' Cheatin' C Street Chipper is now a lobbyist for Cellular South, a telecom company owned by Creekmore Byrd’s family.

I guess what all this boils down to is, give it up Leisha. Creekmore Byrd didn't alienate your husband's affections. She was apparently banging him in college and then you got in the way. I think it best it you just simmer and settle before Creekmore Byrd sues you for alienation of affection.

God love the Repugs. There's always a stack of dirty laundry left out.