Gore's son gets in trouble and it's a nation national tragedy worthy of endless news coverage. A reich-winger gets in trouble and the MSM doesn't have the right to cover this story.

Vitter is a Christian in disguise....

Preemptive Clintsession:

"But, but, but, CLINTON!!!!!"
~any given reich-winger

Hey, listen up.

He talked to GAWD, and GAWD forgave him.

Done deal.

And, hopefully HIS WIFE talked to GAWD, and She told him, go ahead and cut the lying bastard's dick off and hand it to him!

Justice all around?

Hey, hey HEY! Time Out! The guy's a Republican, he gets the medal of freedom for getting his rocks off, it's the Dems that get prosecuted for BJs. Got that straghtened out now? Alright then,...continue.

Reich-wingers have to pay to get sex.....LOL

Go get him DC prosecutors!! Oh Yeah, they don't work for DC, they work for Gonzo, part of the Justice Department.

No DC Jail for Republicans while the BushCheneyCorp still runs things...

Imeach these bastards.

Is she saying Vitter has been a bad...bad boy?

Well Senator, your wife may have forgiven you but I understand God is po'ed. She doesn't like adulterers. And I believe the punishment as prescribed in that bible you're choking on is being stoned to death.

On YouTube, Vitter's speech on the sanctity of marriage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9mKY80Amqk

Mrs. Vitter:

Cut off his dick and sell it on EBay.

Distraction. "Look there's another shiny new penny!" (not to coin a phrase... )

It is heartening to see the RW's and MSM willing to hang out one of their own to deflect attention from more important members matters, but I don't know that RW sexual hypocrisy is anything new or striking (has Ted Haggard been cured yet?), at least not striking enough to work as a successful diversion. Still, the rats appear to be drowning their own.

From what I understand there are plenty of lobbyists willing to set this type of thing up for "free" without anyone being able to trace it like they have with Vitter. Aside from the hypocrisy, Vitter was stupid not to have had a lobbyist provide it for him.

I'm sorry, folks. Richard is correct.

I don't care how many holes into which he sticks his mantool. It's of no business of mine, even if he paid money to do it.

As an atheist, I don't follow the guidelines of any religion, and therefore, don't give a damn whether he cheated on his wife once or a hundred times, either with other humans or turtles, or swans, or cows, or caterpillars, etc.

To me, what he did is not a justifiable reason to resign. It may be hypocritical, yes, but it's not criminal.

Well, it is, I guess, but it should not be.

Vitter Va-Va-Voom

Dahgrostab'ph-r-i @ 27:

So I guess his wife isn't going to take her Bobbet Prize

Lack of tweezers?

Orwell’s Illegitimate Son Says:
To me, what he did is not a justifiable reason to resign. It may be hypocritical, yes, but it’s not criminal.
Well, it is, I guess, but it should not be.

I'm not asking for him to resign, just give him the same punishment that you or I would receive if we went and hired a hooker. Doesn't matter how we feel about the law... I think prostitution should be legal... but it isn't. Until then, it's not a bad thing to expect our lawmakers to actually follow the law. "Do as I say not as I do" is not acceptable policy for my government to have.

The problem with the court of public opinion is the concentration of the news in fewer and fewer hands that wish to peddle infotainment. This story hasn't even been mentioned in the Dallas Morning Nudes yet. How can opinion form on a subject so thinly distributed?

Herbert @ 4:

Vitter is a Christian in disguise....

why is a christian doing wrong a 'christian in disguise?' Given the number of 'christians' in prison, looks to be a christian just being a christian.

As I said earlier on another post, at least there's SOMETHING else going on to keep us from dealing with the reality of a THIRD destroyer being sent to the Persian Gulf.

Sex sells.

Dale Says:
why is a christian doing wrong a ‘christian in disguise?’ Given the number of ‘christians’ in prison, looks to be a christian just being a christian.

I predict one day someone is gonna stand up and say, "Hey, time out everyone!!!! Do any of you actually believe this bible bullshit? No?? Good, let's stop pretending."

fiver @ 32:

Dahgrostab'ph-r-i @ 27:

So I guess his wife isn't going to take her Bobbet Prize

Lack of tweezers?

Should we all send her some? via his Senate office.

stonicus @ 25:

Anti-BabyBoomer(and Coulter) Says:
...I think the madame does bring up a good point when she asks “Why am I the only one being prosecuted” shouldn’t Vitter, and the prostitute that answered the call be subject to the law also?

Yes, they should. So why are you advocating that Vitter should be left alone?

I don't know if Vitter should be left alone totally. I'm just very aware of the GOP's tactics, and the overall stupidity of alot of our voting citizenry. If progressives choose to spend any time or political capital to hunt this down, I think we come off looking like as big of hypocrites as the GOP'ers tend to look. I understand prostitution is illegal. I get that. I understand that this guy broke the law and that he is a hypocrite for throwing Gay marriages under a bus while he was throwing his own matrimony under another bus. But this is an issue that should be handled by a D.A. and his family. IF he is found guilty of a crime, then I will welcome any and all calls for this guy to be removed but until then everything is still up in the air. In one of your posts you made the distinction between this guy and Clinton. Clinton wasn't impeached for the BJ, he was impeached for telling lies to a grand jury about the BJ. Idiotic and certainly not a high crime or misdemeanor to be sure, but I heard my fellow Dems saying things like "This was about sex WHO CARES?!?!" Well so is this Vitter stuff. It is about sex and right or wrong the political Right will point to the rabidness of the Left regarding this guy as proof of our own hypocrisy and you know what? The less than intelligent voters in our country who are just looking for a reason to bail on the Dems will flip back to voting for the Repubs based on the hypocrisy and frankly, we can't afford to lose the next presidential election. Certainly not for looking like hypocrites for some pisant who cannot get laid for free. If we lose the election because of our stance on the war, fine. If we lose it based on our stance on poverty, fine. But losing it because we look like hypocrites to the not-so-smart? No thank you.

ysbaddaden @ 31:

If they enforced such laws we would indubitably have congressional sessions in the rec area of the local penitentiary.

I don't see a problem with that. And it seems to me it would save the taxpayers a lot of money.

I thought whores were tight lipped about their customers.

Vitter, even after his ignominious admission ( which he never would have made on his own until forced by the release of the phone records ) , is being celebrated as an ' amnesty ' - killer hero by nativist bloggers, talk show hosts and that bastard - Pat Buchanan. These sons of bitches couldn't forgive poor immigrants for jumping the border to make a decent living doing thankless jobs but they have no scruples about defending a shameless hypocrite like Vitter. I tell you what - his loudmouth ' Bobbitt ' wife will forgive him too. These pigs are all cut from the same stinking cloth.

Has the wife said anything bout her "lorena bobbit" line when she took that shot at Hillary during the Monica wars?

She inserted herself in the morality wars back then, I think she should be called on it now?

Come on Honey, you were SOOO ballsy back then, what now?

I got some nice sharp scissors in case you needs them....

OK, this one isn't at the top of my list of scandals, but I will say this: Pope John Paul forgave his would-be assassin, but the dude as forgiven as he was, still had to pay the time for his crime.

OxyCon @ 55:

Is Vitter a Eunich?
If not, his wife is all talk and no action.

Maybe she's NO Talk and NO action...

That's why he was getting his Kink on with the hookers?

L.A. Confidential @ 37:

Nancy Pelosi should take some lessons from Natalie Maines, Cindy Sheehan
and Debra Jean Palfrey about how to deal with Bush and these cons.

You're right - Debra Jean Palfrey is the most skilled of them. But Pelosi's main problem is Steny Hoyer (financed by financial and pharma sectors to the tune of 78%, as in millions; he's the author and 'deliverer' of the new bankruptcy code/law protecting crooks of Enron, but mercilessly pulverizing the little guys, practically making filing impossible), Rahm Emanuel (dual citizen of the US and Israel, with his loyalties to a foreign entity:stronger preznit or any leader is NOT what he wants - the weaker they are, the eaasier for his masters to manipilate/ buy them: keep checking next Hillary's list online with her arse sizes for diff pants she needs others to buy for her, so she wouldn't be naked in her Chapaqua house also bought by the 'friends', while she eats on plates and with cutlery also from her online list, bought by another 'friend' w/ dough), no-action Harry (Reid), and the rest of her own supposedly team (uuhhm -w..house).
Any other dem leader would be facing the same - which dem faction is s/he a part of.

It's hard to be a Madam when dem girlie-boys do not wish to put out. Even when it counts so much.

Anti-BabyBoomer(and Coulter) Says:
But this is an issue that should be handled by a D.A.

I totally agree with that. I don't think Congress needs to do it. The local DA for the area in which the crime took place should file charges.

jk @ 50:

I thought whores were tight lipped about their customers.

Usually, but this was just too Vitter A Pill to swallow!. Bad pun intended.

...

PNAAC Minister @ 9:

Vitter was one of the Clinton attackers based on "moral" grounds. It turns out they were all just jealous. Bill must be chuckling a lot when he reads the newspaper these days.

Yeah, I said the same thing during the Clinton impeachment hearings... they were all jealous that Monica wasn't interested in smoking their cigars so they went after Clinton... and Monica still was only interested in Bill's cigars and not theirs. Poor little boys.

The concern from some in this thread is really mind melting.
Vitter committed a crime.
He hired a prostitute.
It is a crime to do so in DC.

Sure, he is also morally bankrupt and a hypocrite as well - seeing as how he, just like Newt Gingrich, could not help but be the loudest admonishers of the Clenis when he committed adultery - even though they were also committing adultery.

However, a legal blowjob versus paying a hooker for sex?
And you concerned ones really, truly can't understand the difference?

Again, my mind is melted daily by the amazingly under-developed thought processes of so many of my fellow Americans.
No wonder America is a wasteland.

Actually Bill Clinton wasn't prosecuted for "lies" to the Grand Jury. That was taped. Where he was accused of lying was in the deposition, where using Paula Jones's lawyers's definition of sex, he said she may have had sex with me, but I didn't with her. The lawyers gave a very specific definition of what sex is, but didn't include her mouth. Also before the whole impeachment nonsense he admitted to an improper relationship, but didn't bother to elaborate.

Where people might be confused is he gave interviews where he denied having sex with that woman, but these were not under oath, and he was continuing a lawyer's trick, contact with a mouth isn't sex per the definition given him. Therefore he could be accused of lying, but that's not perjury, and the interview questions were over his personal life. Then it becomes fair game. Republicans raised sex as a campaign issue as a "character" issue so therefore they opened themselves up to counter-charges of like nature.

That being said, during a typical discovery process lawyers on both sides agree on what the will or will not talk about during trial, unless the defendant brings it up while testifying on his own behalf.

"Republicans raised sex as a campaign issue as a “character” issue so therefore they opened themselves up to counter-charges of like nature."

Yeah, did anyone catch Tucker on CNN trying to defend this clown, claiming all the Abstinence and family values crap he spews DOESN'T leave him open to the hypocrite charge?

The logic was so tortured, it would have been banned even in Gitmo....

Anti-BabyBoomer(and Coulter) @ 17:

Richard @ 13:

Any Democrat that seeks prosecution of the Viier creep is a total asshole. Leave this to the court of public opinion or go down as hypocrites..screaming about the injustice suffered by Bill Clinton but going after Vitter. Vitter is toast. He may well finish his term but it will be as a very reduced and wounded man. An action by Democrats will on be what is focused on...taking attention away from the whore monger Vitter.
Just fucking stop all the GOP tactics..its not what we are here for.

I tried saying this in another post regarding this subject and got called a reich-winger for it. But you are totally correct. Using the same tactics of those you despise makes you no better than those you despise. We have to fight for the HIGHER ground instead of wallowing in the filth of the less than genuine in our Government. That being said, I think the madame does bring up a good point when she asks "Why am I the only one being prosecuted" shouldn't Vitter, and the prostitute that answered the call be subject to the law also?

So we should bring a knife to a gun fight? These are the people who got appointed by yelling "the rule of law". Why shouldn't he be prosecuted under DC's "John " Laws. If he had been soliciting prostitutes on the street he would be.

nitehawk @ 74:

Anti-BabyBoomer(and Coulter) @ 17:

Richard @ 13:

Any Democrat that seeks prosecution of the Viier creep is a total asshole. Leave this to the court of public opinion or go down as hypocrites..screaming about the injustice suffered by Bill Clinton but going after Vitter. Vitter is toast. He may well finish his term but it will be as a very reduced and wounded man. An action by Democrats will on be what is focused on...taking attention away from the whore monger Vitter.
Just fucking stop all the GOP tactics..its not what we are here for.

I tried saying this in another post regarding this subject and got called a reich-winger for it. But you are totally correct. Using the same tactics of those you despise makes you no better than those you despise. We have to fight for the HIGHER ground instead of wallowing in the filth of the less than genuine in our Government. That being said, I think the madame does bring up a good point when she asks "Why am I the only one being prosecuted" shouldn't Vitter, and the prostitute that answered the call be subject to the law also?

So we should bring a knife to a gun fight? These are the people who got appointed by yelling "the rule of law". Why shouldn't he be prosecuted under DC's "John " Laws. If he had been soliciting prostitutes on the street he would be.

That being said, I think the madame does bring up a good point when she asks "Why am I the only one being prosecuted" shouldn't Vitter, and the prostitute that answered the call be subject to the law also?

Anyone else getting tired of this old... It wasn't me or I'm forgiven crap?! What a pile of smelly bull$hit!!

Vitter... why is the Madame the only one being prosecuted? Excellent question... how about an answer?

Who cares if he resigns? When will he be turned into a eunuch by his wife?

I keep flashing back to these lines in "O Brother Where Art Thou"

You may be even square with the Lord, but Mississippi's more hard-nosed.

but it seems like prosecution of prostitution would be a hard case to prove with just a phone number list. Vitter opening his trap might have hurt him but if I were his defense attorney and all they had was this list and the nebulous statement about "sin" I would take the case in a heartbeat. I thank goodness that I am not an attorney in cases like this.

ysbaddaden @ 84:

but it seems like prosecution of prostitution would be a hard case to prove with just a phone number list. Vitter opening his trap might have hurt him but if I were his defense attorney and all they had was this list and the nebulous statement about "sin" I would take the case in a heartbeat. I thank goodness that I am not an attorney in cases like this.

I tried to stop this before it went out without my comments. Phones numbers might be insufficient, and even his admission of sin might become inadmissable.

However, this should give pause to those who support data mining and other unConstitutional acts that many of them supported.

Vitter, you are a SCHMUCK of the HIGHEST ORDER! Resign and go home to your wife and bury your face in her pussy until you are blue in the face! Then, come out and support gay marriage and show your true colors!

The Patriot Act is akin to fascism. The United States is an authoritarian regime and we are seeing the end of democratic freedoms, make no mistake about it.

No W Now @ 87:

How about this?
http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/04/23/Feldmar/

That is an article about a Vancouver doctor who is now banned form the US because of an article he published about his drug use, drug use from 30 years ago with none since. He is seen as a threat and a drug abuser by US customs because of his admitted drug use. Here we have another admitted criminal, earning our tax dollars. A respected doctor will never be allowed in the US again (he was never arrested nor convicted by the way) for admitting to breaking the law. A senator/criminal still gets $165,200 of our dollars every year.

DC Madam Calls For Senator Vitter To Be Prostituted.

I believe that as long as the law is in place, the man should be prosecuted.

As much as I respect the opinions of folks like Miss Kitty, I respect the rule of law a bit more. I would be fine if the punishment were lenient (a fine), but he should almost certainly step down.

There once was a senator named Vitter,
On eBay he was Jeff Gannon’s high-bidder,
gay—says he ain’t,
but the foul smell of his taint,
is from shoving hotdogs up his shitter.

Someone sharpen the knife for his plucky little wife. The DC Madam strikes 1 for good.

DC Madam. DC Madam. DC Madam. DC Madam. DC Madam. DC Madam. DC Madam.

I would like to point out, in all fairness, that no underage congressional pageboys were harmed in the creation of this latest republican scandal.

Vitter...the new Santorum.

I am so glad I helped send Ricky to the curb last year!

What does it matter what Clinton did? What does it matter what A. t. Hun or A. t. Great did? Or Einstein or Momma Teresa or My Uncle Chuck? Or if my dog shits on the carpet? What does it matter who Vitter works for? Or who his wife, father, grand uncle or favorite color is? What does it matter what the filthy little senator has in his pocketeses? What does it matter if god or his wife or the Reich Wing cool-aid mixer forgives him? What does it matter if the Bereft Wing Nuts think he's a hypocritical bastard (this one is true, tho)? What does it matter if prostitution is immoral, amoral or better with coke? What does it matter that I'm typing this in the nude with SpongeBob SquarePants on the TeeVee while I eat Pringles with hot sauce?

Nothing.

What does matter is:

1) Prostitution is illegal
2) There is evidence that he hired prostitutes.
3) And he made what I imagine is a non-legally binding confession.

If this guy wasn't a politician, given the evidence, he'd be in jail, assumed innocent of course, and awaiting trial just like any other john, junkie, whore, gang member, rapist, etc. But it's all moot. King W has just begun selling indulgences... I mean commutations and pardons. But even if KW doesn't do anything, the perverse concept of smaller penalties for people with more power will ensure that the worst he'll get will be from his wife. But I'm sure his book will sell well.

I'm guessing Tony "Mouth of Sauron" Snow's explanation will go something like this:

"Vitter, like Scooter, is a hero. He was f*ing them there so they wouldn't follow him home."
(Tsk... f*ing can mean fighting, too.)

Now, let's imagine that this guy is not a member of the Bu'ush party. How would W spin this?

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God has this list, see, and it says what we shouldn't do if we don't wanna be evil doers. And this here guy broke some of these rules. Lemme splain somma these rules, 'cos I'm also the edumactor-in-chief. Ah hear thars about 10 of 'em or so.

#4: Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy[1]
Now see, Sabbath is Jew for Sunday. And if he went a'whorin' on Sunday, then that's eviler than whorin' Monday through Saturday. Sunday's fer churchin', footballin' and brush clearin'. Day names sure are funny. Ah cain't even spell Wensday. Heh. Karl says it's named after a PAGAN god named Wotan, or Wodin or Odin or sumpin'. How come we got a day named after a Pagan god? Oh well, gotta help Laura with the easter egg hunt.

#5: Honor your mommy and daddy[2]
Now, I'm sure this evildoer's mamma wouldn't want him visitin' any hoes, so he sure ain't honorin' her! See, I honored my daddy by killin' the guy who tried to kill him way back when.

#7: Thou shalt not commit adultery
This here's what it is when adults do adult things with other adults who they ain't married to. Heh, heh. Question? No, I don't know what kind of pajamas Condi wears. Why? Another Q? No, I don't know Jeff Gannon's email address. Ask Karl.

#9: Thou shalt not bear false witness[3]
That's fancy talk fer lyin'. And it's evil, see. And people who "do" it are "evil" "doers." Y'all see how that works? Heh, heh. He lied to his god and bride (cuz teknikly they wasn't married yet) at his weddin'. And he lied to y'all citizens when he took his oath of orifice. And then, when he didn't tell nobody about it (till he got caught) he was lyin' by omission. Dunno what that means, but Karl said to say it. Heh, heh.

#10: Don't covet stuff
Karl said that covetin' means:
2. To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after
(something forbidden).
Ah likes that... hanker after. Heh, heh. And, see, prostitutes is forbidden and he was hankerin' enough to break his weddin' vows and his oath of office, so we can use this un, too.

Now, I'm as compassionate as the next conservative, heh, so I'm all for forgiveness and such. But the other day, Laura was singin' "1 little, 2 little, 3 little indians" to me at nap time (just like Jack Abramoff used to before he had to go away) and I noticed that 6 comes between 5 and 7! Lookin' at Them Ten Commandments[4], I saw that rule 6 was:

THOU SHALT NOT MURDER!!!![5] This here evildoer has done things that are rubbin' elbows with murder in the bibul. We cain't let him go. Dick says there's a 1% chance he could hurt somebody, so we need to do a teeny weeny little regime change. I prolly won't watch him bein' hanged, neither.

Thank you(9/11). It's been great talkin'(9/11) before this fully screened and hand picked supportive audience. I'd also like to thank Fox(9/11)News for the air time(9/11).

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If only we could classify paying off politicians to support special interests as prostitution! Now that would be a LONG list of phone numbers!

Notes:

The KJV bible has been amended by the following signing statements:

[1] Clearin' brush ain't work... it's intellectually stimulating fun. I'm always thinkin': where can I put this pile? Which pile of brushes should I get next? Why, sometimes I even think 1 or 2 piles ahead!

[2] I ain't dishonoring my daddy by ignorin' him and only listenin' to the voices in my head.

[3] Tellin' people that Rummy ain't goin' anywhar just before sackin' him ain't lyin'. Neither is sayin' all our wiretaps had warrants before admitting we are doing warrantless wiretaps. Or Iraq did 9/11. Or WMD are in Iraq. Or sayin' "Mission Accomplished." Or [remainder deleted due to bandwidth restrictions]

[4] The word "Commandment" only applies to others. We like to consider this quaint old piece of paper "The Ten Suggestions" when applied to us.

[5] Except for mostly non-white criminals, our soldiers by not giving them armor, rest or equipment, and people in close proximity to "coveted" oil supplies.

The next version of the bible, the King W Version (KWV) will be released in 2009 to commemorate W's 3rd and final term.
In early Nov 2008, voting will be considered quaint. In 10 years it will hardly be missed.

E Pleb Neesta
GODISNOWHERE
Blessed are the cheese makers.
If HPV vaccination promotes promiscuity, then surely confession must promote sin.

Yet again... Another holier-than-thou hypocrite fails to practice what he preaches. Defender of the "Sanctity of Marriage" indeed.

Evidently Mz Palfrey can not make the fine distinction which the rest of us make every day,,, That there is a difference between 'being fucked' and 'getting fucked'. Where she and her pro's were in the business of 'being fucked' for pay, she is now seeing how we the amerikan people have been 'getting fucked' for years, By the unaccountable hypocrites who run this country.
Really though, seeing we pay these governmental whores their salary, maybe we should be prosecuted too.

I just wish I could have enjoyed it.

Vitter claims God has forgiven him. Isn't that one of the worst sins? Making wrongful use of the Lord's name? So he sins explaining another sin (bearing false witness) that covers up yet another sin (adultery) while he supports sinful administration (murder). That's four commandments violated right there.

I wonder if he was one of the senators who supported placing the ten commandments in public buildings.

The hypocrisy is stunning, almost as bad as Tobias making use of the DC Madam services (and that of the more economic latina brothels) while heading up Bush's Global abstinence programmes.

You know for all the wrongs in the world, people here at home, like to focus on things that are just so incredibly stupid its no wonder Americans are thought to be idiots and people are dieing on the street everyday.

The bottom line is, a Politician is doing a job, he is entitled to every single right you are as an American and that entitles him to a right to privacy if he so chooses. Americans and politician have no more right to know about what is going on in vitter's bedroom then they are their neighbors, nor any more right to demand a resignation on the basis of something that is personal.

Why do we focus on stupid incidents, frivolous laws, Flag removal, Monument removal, and all the while we as Americans allow congress and our president to violate our every right as a citizen, the very foundations of our constitution and country.

Dude @ 112:

You know for all the wrongs in the world, people here at home, like to focus on things that are just so incredibly stupid its no wonder Americans are thought to be idiots and people are dieing on the street everyday.

The bottom line is, a Politician is doing a job, he is entitled to every single right you are as an American and that entitles him to a right to privacy if he so chooses. Americans and politician have no more right to know about what is going on in vitter's bedroom then they are their neighbors, nor any more right to demand a resignation on the basis of something that is personal.

Why do we focus on stupid incidents, frivolous laws, Flag removal, Monument removal, and all the while we as Americans allow congress and our president to violate our every right as a citizen, the very foundations of our constitution and country.

With all due respect, it is uninformed comments like this that make us appear to be idiots. And poor speling.
Prostitution is a crime. It's illegal. Against the law. Something people who are not politicians go to jail for. This guy swore an oath to uphold the laws of the land. And he has the power to make and change laws. Of course he should have the same rights as everyone else, but he must also take more responsibility and be accountable for his actions because of the power he holds. Sadly, though, the opposite is true: he, as do others in positions of power, has more rights and is less responsible and accountable for his actions than others. Can we go on TeeVee and just apologize for committing a CRIME and have that be the end of it? Or, if it's a really bad crime, like being a pedophile or a rapist, then you may have to *gasp* resign.

No, this is not a matter of right to privacy. Clinton's BJ was a privacy issue.

But you are quite right that this is truly insignificant compared to the rape of the Constitution and the administration's abuse of power.
But if we can bring enough attention to the hypocrisy and truly vile nature of the those in power maybe people will get pissed off enough to do more than bitch to their friends about the current sad state of affairs. And by revealing the true nature of these self-proclaimed moral leaders people may realize just who it is they are voting into power and stop assuming that Republican == moral.

It seems that people are unable to grasp the true significance of what the Bu'ushists have done to our country. Removal of habeas corpus, torture, warrantless spying on American citizens, illegal wars, war crimes, war profiteering on a massive scale. These things are so enormous that they don't seem real. It's more than UBL ever thought he could accomplish. But we can sure wrap our tiny little brain stems around a nice little bit of smut. So we take what we can get. And if a hypocritical, immoral lawbreaking SOB can be removed from office then maybe it can be replaced by a slightly less hypocritical, immoral lawbreaking SOB. Yeah. Right.

E Pleb Neesta
GODISNOWHERE
Blessed are the cheese makers.
If HPV vaccination promotes promiscuity, then surely confession must promote sin.

these assholes don't believe in god

Did she give up shampoo for Lent?

Well at least he didn't sodomize a teenager in a government office with a cigar, or anything ...

Dude@112

While you make a valid point; I think you miss one important thing. If voters had been informed of Vitters proclivities do you think that he would have been elected into office? This is a man who completely misrepresented himself to every person he came in contact with on a professional level. Now his wife and the entire state of Louisiana has been publicly humiliated, because of his lies and indescretions. Our elected officials are SUPPOSED to be the best representative that each state has to offer. From the president down, these are the people that other nations base thier assumptions of the US on. I personally have issue with the fact that other nations think of me as an American with no capability of any other thought besides what's going in between my legs.

Decency is reserved for people with decent behavior.

Richard (#13) says:
"Any Democrat that seeks prosecution of the Viier creep is a total asshole. Leave this to the court of public opinion or go down as hypocrites..screaming about the injustice suffered by Bill Clinton but going after Vitter. Vitter is toast. He may well finish his term but it will be as a very reduced and wounded man. An action by Democrats will on be what is focused on…taking attention away from the whore monger Vitter.
Just fucking stop all the GOP tactics..its not what we are here for."

Legal prosecution of Senator Vitter is the responsibility of law enforcement, not Democrats. The "court of public opinion" is condemning Vitter and will likely see him censured. Beyond that, he may resign when faced with expulsion. Naturally, the Republicans would do anything they could to see to it he stays in office as long as possible.

After having the "holier than thou” Republicans ruin our country with their lies and their hypocrisy, and after their unbridled criminality has finally been exposed to many Americans, this is hardly the time to cry "foul" against Democrats.