Congresswoman Katie Hill resigned this week after a defiant speech to Congress condemning an alleged “double standard” that pushed her out of office. In her official statement, Hill blamed her “abusive husband” and “hateful political operatives” for what she describes as a “smear campaign” against her.

In a final floor speech, Hill complained about the “double standard” that forced her out, rather than her own inappropriate, odious behavior.

Double standard? This has got to be some kind of joke!

What double standard?

Duncan Hunter – accused of affairs before House ethics rules were changed to define relationships between members and congressional staffers as misconduct – is still in office, but has been stripped of all committee assignments and is facing a federal indictment on all sorts of charges.

Al Franken was basically pressured to resign after several groping incidents, which he claims he does not remember. He certainly did not have affairs with his staffers!

Pat Meehan resigned last year after using taxpayer money to settle sexual harassment allegations and has repaid that money from his own wallet.

Other Congressmen resigned after being accused of inappropriate behavior with staffers. Trent Franks, Brent Farenthold, the late John Conyers are among that bunch. Ruben Kihuen was formally rebuked by the House Ethics Committee for sexual misconduct and did not run for office again.

Of the Congressmen accused of sexual misconduct, only Democrat Bobby Scott stubbornly refused to resign and is still infesting the 3rd Congressional District seat in Virginia.

So where is the “double standard?”

Outside the government, men who are accused of sexual misconduct are pariahs. They’ve either been terminated, resigned their positions, or are being criminally charged. Katie Hill had sexual relations with two staffers. Photos of her with one staffer showed up on the Internet. She admitted to said sexual relations. Meanwhile, many of the men have resigned after mere accusations.

So where’s the “double standard?”

I’ll show you the double standard.

After Matt Lauer was exposed as a foul rapist, he was ousted from NBC and has been living in relative obscurity ever since. He doesn’t have a horde of frothing fans drooling about how missed he is.

Harvey Weinstein is a pariah and will be tried on charges of predatory sexual assault, rape in the first degree, and rape in the third degree in January.

Bill Cosby is in prison.

Placido Domingo withdrew from several scheduled US performances and resigned as general director of the Los Angeles Opera this year amid allegations of sexual harassment.

Kevin Spacey got booted from “House of Cards” after numerous people alleged he engaged in sexual misconduct. A once brilliant actor, he’s now dead in the water. I doubt anyone will touch him (no pun intended).

Meanwhile, Hill’s dimwitted fan club is mourning her resignation.

“Don’t let the right wing press win,” admonishes some creature named Denise Wu on Twitter, as if it’s the media’s fault that Bad Decision Central made the godawful choices of boffing a female campaign aide and a male congressional staffer and allowed her husband to photograph her naked with the aide in the age of the Internet.

“You don’t need to resign for this,” claims another fan. Um yes, she does. She violated House ethics rules. She admitted it. Her male counterparts resigned based on allegations. There’s photographic proof of her misconduct.

I obviously abhor “revenge porn,” and if her soon-to-be ex husband engaged in this behavior, he is an immoral, vile pig who needs to be eviscerated and fed his own intestines. But the unauthorized photos aside, Hill exploited a young campaign worker when she was a congressional candidate and engaged in a sexual relationship with a staffer when she was in a position of authority. And then she proceeded to paint herself as a victim, rather than the sexual predator that she is.

Let’s not fool ourselves, the only “double standard” here is on the part of filthy hypocrites like Kamala Harris, who had no problem smearing Brett Kavanaugh as a rapist based on no evidence other than her own bias, but claims that Katie Hill is the real victim here.

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