There are just some stories that really grind me to do. Vitter is one of them. It’s one of those stories whose titillation factor (some pun intended) will keep it in the headlines when far more important stories get ignored. However, I have to ask, based on his statements during the Clinton impeachment, inserting himself into national politics he was merely a state representative, when we will expect to hear Vitter’s resignation:
(I)n an October 29, 1998, opinion piece for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Vitter took issue with a previous article, written by two law professors who had argued that impeachment “is a process of removing a president from office who can no longer effectively govern; it is not about punishment.” Given that Clinton was still a capable chief executive, they had maintained, impeachment was not in order.
Vitter [..] was aghast at this amoral position. He blasted the law professors for criticizing those congressional Republicans pushing for Clinton’s impeachment. Their argument that impeachment is “not primarily about right and wrong or moral fitness to govern,” he wrote, was utterly wrongheaded. He continued:
Some current polls may suggest that people are turned off by the whole Clinton mess and don’t care — because the stock market is good, the Clinton spin machine is even better or other reasons. But that doesn’t answer the question of whether President Clinton should be impeached and removed from office because he is morally unfit to govern.
Cenk of The Young Turks thinks Vitter should apologize to Clintons… Howie has more (…and *gasp* another Republican scandal a-brewing)
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I’m waiting for his wife to keep her pledge.
Vitter is morally unfit to breath.
Vitter would rather we all leave these transgressions in the past. He has made peace with his wife and his god and we all need to look the other way now.
LOL
Diaper fetish?
Nicole, you’re right that there are more important stories but I can’t help but laugh at Vitter’s hot-seat cheek-dance. We all need a little levity now and then.
Would Vitter have supported Clinton if he was having diaper sex with Monica?
Just more republican hypocrisy. Clinton get a blowjob and its impeachment. He gets a blowjob and its a moral digression to be forgiven, between him and God.
He should resign from office is he is so moral.
It’s because Bill Clinton didn’t Pay For It Nicole.
republican ideology requires “payment” before Consent becomes legitimate.
Dr. Matt @ 5:
Well, that will teach me to click on to a link before I know what the hell a diaper fetish is…and I thought I had issues with melted chocolate.
Ah yes, my state of Florida makes the headlines again, and once more, not in a good way.
This thing with Vitter, and all, is just entertainment to me. It’s a timeout from all the horrible stuff. We all deserve a timeout once in a while. Just as I said about Clinton way back when, this is between the people involved and no one else. I won’t stand in judgment of any of them, I’ll just snicker and that’s it.
Vitter is getting just what he deserved, bottom line.
Which lone GOP candidate showed up for the NAACP?
Strawberry @ 8:
Apparently reich-wing definition of “family values” is having diaper sex, sex with prostitutes, sex with boys, sex with male prostitutes, buying meth from prostitutes, running a homosexual escort service, leaving your wife on her death bed, etc., etc.,
You know, I’ll stick with liberal “family values” of getting a old fashioned bj from a woman.
Who cares!
I commend President Clinton for taking the time to tutor the young lady in the finer point of fellatio.
nitehawk @ 1:
And keep his dick with the pledge.
When will Vitter resign his seat in the Senate?
If Clinton was unfit to govern, then Vitter is unfit to represent the people of Louisianna…
Paddy @ 10:
Somehow I think that’s what his fetish was about…his bottom getting what it deserved. LOLOL!
I wonder how much Vitter pays Wendy?
It is time for people to be real. Give every human being equal protection under the law. It is time to apply all the laws of the land across the board to every man, woman, and child, black, brown and white. Let these hypocrates be put to shame.
The continuous hypocracy of these leaders of the right or social conservatives make Bill Clinton an Angel. Certainly it gives him plenty of reasons to smile. He can talk to each one of these hypocrates now and look at them straight in the eye.
Practise what you preach.
Its, funny, after falling down the morality rabbit hole, Vitter is left with only 2 options, the moral, right thing to do, resign, or, the immoral, wrong thing to do, stay in and continue to desicrate his office. He is a GOP, a lot of his constituents understand, these things don’t apply to rich white guys in nice suits, what are you thinking, they only apply to EVERYBODY ELSE! Welcome to the GOP baby!
“If someone’s living a life contrary to the way they’re advocating … then they become fair game,” Flynt told reporters. “I don’t want a man like that legislating for me, especially in the area of morality.”
So in the current sex scandal scorecard its some 15 republicans and neo-con chrisitians as opposed to a dead democrat.
Boy, this is a Vitter pill to swallow for the American people.
I don’t know whether this story bothers me so much as discovering that the market rate for a blowjob in Florida has dropped to a mere $20!
As usual, those who are doing sloppy work have cheapened the quality and skills required for the task.
Quit you son of a bitch hypocrit!! Resign now. It will be easier than later when you you are forced out.
Where are the Republicans on this one?
nitehawk @ 20:
Well, the presence of that dead Democrat will mean that the media reports this as a “bipartisan” scandal that is rocking both political parties, and has “politicians” on the run.
They have already been downplaying the hypocrisy angle
Leave Vittter alone! It’s not like he goes about pontificating on the morality of others…. oh, wait…
I want to see a list of all the Republicans who had so much to say about Bill Clinton when he got his blow job. Hey Orrin Hatch, what do you have to say you pig?
Who’s the Focus on the Family asshole? Oh yeah, James Dobson. Well Jimmy, what do you have to say?
Pat Robertson? Where are you, you bastard?
pissed off patricia @ 9:
Where ’bouts?
I live in Oviedo (outside of Orlando).
“Do as we say, not as we do”
~GOPig Motto
And of course there is the great unasked MSM question. What was Rush Limbaugh doing in the Domincan Republic on an all male golfing holiday with enough Viagra to get a dead guy aroused?
Eman @ 18:
Oh. NOW it’s time to be real. The Party is over…the hypocrisy revealed…the suspects being turned into convicts in the court of public opinion and perhaps in the real courts…so now we’re all supposed to back off.
Riight. Sorry. Spin again.
Vitter didn’t show up on the hill yesterday. No one seems to know where he is. I’m guessing he’ll mail in his resignation real soon.
What do yoiu have to say about Florida State Rep. Robert Allen who was looking for a blow job (It wasn’t clear whether he wanted to give it or get it)in the mens room.
Anachro1 @ 22:
Maybe it should be outsourced!! LOL!
If Orin Hatch’s name is on that list, I’ll throw a party. I really do not like that SOB. Of course seeing Ted Stevens name would be funny too.
Actually, the Vitter scandal can be quite important.
If this thing blows up further, as he’s made a lot of enemies back in Louisiana in his rise to Senator, and has a lot more potentials skeletons buried here, he could be forced to resign. Between more hookers back in New Orleans, the diaper fetish, an illegitimate child in Alexandria, LA, and the slight chance that something might finally shake out from Abramoff, there is still a good chance.
It’s pure speculation, but what if one of the hookers gets linked to K Street money?
If Vitter goes, and a Democrat is named, Joe Lieberman becomes a little more neutered.
The scandal itself is frivolous, but a shift in power in the Senate away from Lieberman would be enormous.
pissed off patricia @ 34:
Maybe he’s driving across country wearing astronaut diapers?
Captain Kangaroo @ 35:
Can we introduce him to Rush, they might take a liking to each other.
“In the last session of the Florida legislature, the Christian Coalition commends him for supporting their (extremist, hateful) positions 92% of the time.”
What does the Christian Coalition have to say about this. What do you say you noisy loud mouth, in everybody’s business, bastards?
Captain Kangaroo @ 35:
Actually Captain, I believe he offered a BJ to the cop….GAWD, how sad that I would even know that.
Capt. Kangaroo, I think he was offering to give. It’s better to give than to receive. At least he had his principles. ;)
Maybe we don’t pay our state officials enough. Think that might be his defense?
Dr. Matt @ 39:
Come out and face the music, ya coward.
Another…Mr. Big Nuts…ALL GO…Big Time Republican…who has an acorn in his pants when the going gets tough.
Brett @ 38:
See the Jack Abramoff scandal. That’s where this really began.
I love it! Hypocrisy is so catchy these days. These people don’t live their values yet expect others to follow theirs not just willingly but even more replusively, they aim to make them the law of the land. Senator Vitter keep your morality to yourself and go back to Louisiana. Maybe Jimmy Swaggart can forgive you, after all you both keep the same company, whores. My apologies to the whore.
Without getting too graphic, can someone tell me what diaper sex is? I never heard of it. Yes, my life has been sheltered.
Florida State Rep. Robert Allen wanted to be the blower.
Vitter and Jefferson should have a pow wow and then resign in disgrace together….
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pissed off patricia @ 47:
Google “diaper fetish” and make sure no one is looking over your shoulder.
I mean seriously can you say hypocrite?
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The “diaper” story has legs–Jay Leno made a joke about it last night.
pissed off patricia @ 47:
Strawberry @ 8:
Click on the link, it will tell you far more than you ever wanted to know.
pissed off patricia @ 47:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.....nfantilism
understanding.infantilism.org/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaper_fetishism
There ya go, POP. Send the kids out of the room.
Dr. Matt @ 49: