This afternoon I heard Sen. James Inhofe taking to the Senate floor singing the praises of Laurent Gbagbo, the now-deposed renegade President of Ivory Coast who was just arrested yesterday with the help of the French and turned over to the custody of the country’s internationally recognized elected leader Alassane Ouattara. I figured: there’s gotta be a story behind this. Turns out there is — and it has to do with the group behind C Street, the evagelical flop house up on Capitol Hill that caters to philandering evangelical members of Congress.
Here’s the story.