Stunned silence, guys?

My reaction exactly, Michael -- I was spellbound, then wrote my wife, "omg...OMG...OMG!!!!"

I mean, I'd read accounts of his T-room exploits before but this is so much more compelling. It's the sort of thing you just couldn't make up. And the guy involved and the fellow he told it to are both not the sort to do that anyway.

It's so very Hill house closet scene ordinary -- in a very wife's out-of-town, amongst the bric-a-brac sort of way. It has it all -- sleaze, the sordid, standard D.C. power phraseology, abuse of the not-quite-innocent, jeez-I-need-a-shower-but-I-can't-look-away, poisoned soul caught in the act, been down low so long it looks like up to him, riotously hilariously gotcha and indescribably pitiful OMG Ted Haggard was nothing compared to this revealing truth.

Which, of course, makes it ring more true for all that the style is so not what a politically motivated Democrat would use.