At a town hall meeting this past weekend, meanwhile, the Senator was confronted by a constituent who, after recounting her tale of being raped, demanded to know why he opposed Sen.

Al Franken’s (D-Minn) amendment.

Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/02/vitter-confronted-by-rape_n_342051.html

Confronted by an impassioned rape survivor at a town hall Saturday night, Sen.

David Vitter tried everything from sympathizing to deflecting blame onto the Obama administration for his decision to vote against an anti-rape amendment.

Source:
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/rape-victim-confronts-vitter/

The Commerce Department and Census Bureau declared Tuesday that an amendment by Sen. David Vitter, R-La., to require the 2010 census to ask all persons their citizenship and immigration status would scuttle any chance that the census could be done on time and would cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

Scott Threlkeld/The Times-PicayuneU.S. Sen. David Vitter portrays his amendment as an attempt to keep Louisiana from losing one of its seven congressional districts in the coming reapportionment.The warning came even as the Senate Democratic leadership sought to head off a vote on the Vitter amendment to the Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill.

An effort by the leadership to invoke cloture failed Tuesday evening, with the fight over whether to vote on the Vitter amendment, which he co-sponsored with Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, expected to resume today.

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1. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), on the Obama administration’s efforts to regulate carbon dioxide:

Barton says the average healthy adult exhales between four-tenths of a ton and seven-tenths of a ton of CO2 a year.

“So if you put 20,000 marathoners into a confined area, you could consider that a single source of pollution, and you could regulate it,” Barton says. “The key would be whether the EPA said that 20,000 people running the same route was one source or not.”

One indication that the EPA likely would consider 20,000 runners a single source of pollution is that the agency is trying to regulate waste-water runoff and emissions of drilling rigs in oil fields by attempting to define entire areas as a single source of pollution, Barton says.

Yeah, I totally see how 20,000 runners are the same thing as 20,000 drilling rigs.  Rep. Barton’s analogy is ridiculous.  The rest of America (the sane part) knows the difference.

2. With less than three weeks to go before hurricane season starts, Sen David Vitter (R-LA) has finally lifted his hold on Obama’s nomination of Craig Fugate to head FEMA.  Why did Sen. Vitter have a hold on Mr. Fugate’s nomination?  To receive an update from FEMA officials about designations of high-risk areas along the coast so developers can decide where they want to rebuild.  How long has Sen. Vitter been demanding this critical information?  For two whole freaking months!!!  Um, wait … Sen. Vitter first asked FEMA about their plans back in March 2009?  Yes,that’s correct.  How long did the Bush administration delay FEMA from making these decisions?  Since August 2005.  So for 3 years and 7 months, Sen. Vitter had no problem with the Bushies not making decisions.  But he’s willing to hold an Obama FEMA nomination (to head the agency, you know, nothing important) until he gets answers to the critical questions that it took over 42 months for him to even post?  Yes, that’s correct: Sen. Vitter – perfect example of how Republicans look out for their constituents’ well-being.  They don’t.  Sen. Vitter is facing reelection in 2010.  I’m supporting whoever his challenger happens to be.

3. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) thinks the Senate’s incompetence at running a cafeteria proves that a public option for health care would be a bad idea:

And another thing. Us Senators have to think in terms of a government run insurance plan. We just had to turn the Senate dining room over to a private enterprise because it was losing so much money when the Senate was running it. So you got to be careful about government run programs.

I can’t believe these people hold as much power as they do.  The things they come up with are beyond childish.  Sen. Grassley didn’t think the Senate could do a good enough job running the Senate dining room.  Like the good free-marketeer that he is, he applauded turning it over to a private enterprise.  Because everybody knows how bad the government screws up everything it touches!  Um, Sen. Grassley – you’re an unprincipled hypocrite.  When I read a news report indicating you’ve voluntarily given up your government-run health-care coverage, I’ll believe that you believe in what you’re saying.  But you’ve been using that coverage (at our expense) since 1981!  I suggest you get a grip on the courage of your convictions, sir.  Additionally, Sen. Grassley craftily inserts “government run insurance plan”.  I don’t want a government run insurance plan.  I have an insurance plan – it’s a wreck run by a greedy corporation.  I want a government run health care system.  There is a world of difference there that Sen. Grassley is trying to keep Americans from seeing.  I also can’t believe Iowans have reelected this clown for nearly 30 years  (atrocious grammar is just the tip of the iceberg).  They have the chance to make up for his obstructionist ways in 2010.  I’ll support whoever his challenger(s) is (are).

Citizen Lobbyists

OK, I went to Washington and lobbied for S. 414, the Credit Card reform bill. Here’s what happened. We started the day at Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office, so I was up first. The staffer (I don’t recall his name but will update this when I get it) we met with was a bit cynical. I was disappointed. I tried to emphasize that the banks were harming Sen. Landrieu’s strongest supporters and that it was time for her to stand up for the poor people who vote for her. He basically dismissed that line of thinking since the next election is years away. He claimed that Sen. Landrieu wasn’t afraid of angering the bankers (not that we said anything like that, though she is the recipient of more than $2 million in banking lobby money) because she had supported a credit union bill vehemently opposed by banks. We tried to get him to admit the banks were screwing us with these rate hikes, fees and other onerous new burdens. But he never seemed to sympathize.

Next we met with Travis Johnson, a legislative assistant with Sen.  David Vitter. We we engaged by a smart, civil staffer who challenged us, debated us and gave us an opportunity to rebut and refine our arguments. We might not have changed the way Vitter will vote. But we had an intelligent and satisfying discussion with his staffer.

We also visited with very receptive staffers in the offices of Virginia Senators Mark Warner and Jim Webb.

We were a small group, me, 2 from Virginia and 1 from Connecticut. We were led by representatives of Consumers Union, the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Center for Responsible Lending.

Despite the fact that Sen. Landrieu’s opposition might be enough to stop the bill, there is a sense of optimism that credit card reform will pass. We were promised that if there is a signing ceremony with President Obama, that we’d be invited back!

I’m grateful to Consumers Union and the Pew Charitable Trusts for this amazing opportunity. It was amazing to see how accessible our federal delegation is to visits. I would advise anyone seeking to be heard to take the time to visit Washington and make an appointment. A staffer will be assigned to meet with you and give you the chance to be heard. Whether they listen is another story all together. But the experience is worth it because if you don’t try, nothing is guaranteed to happen.

Please call Sen. Landrieu’s office at 202-224-5824 and Sen. Vitter at 202-224-4623 and tell them you support credit card reform and want the senators to support their constituents and rein in the banks. The vote could happen this week or early next week,  so call ASAP!

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/GOP_senator_flips_out_at_airline_0311.html

Note: the above article ends with mention of the “suicide” of the ‘DC Madam”  which I believe is not the case.

If you’ve ever been caught in the midst of insomnia, a rare but real thing for me, you have been pelted with the ridiculous ads for “Girls Gone Wild!”  They’ve even got some called “Boys Gone Wild!”  Now, these things appear to be videos taken of drunken young ladies – is “ladies” the right word? – and men willing to put on a little strip show for the video cameras, and I assume some cash.  Now, I don’t really know how far these videos go because of two good reasons that have nothing to do with some sort of moral code.  The first reason is that they want $29.95 plus S&H, which seems too expensive for me, and before I can commit to that extravagance in my budget, I always end up falling asleep quickly when the boring shows that run in the middle of the night resume.  I guess that means that late-night television actually is a cure for insomnia.  I’ll leave it to you to judge me for remaining awake during the “Gone Wild” commercials.  I’m taking the Fifth on that one.

Assistant US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald

Anyway, I couldn’t help but think of those adverts when Assistant US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, stood before the microphone ripping yet another bandage off another political wound, exposing it for all to see.  You may remember him from the Scooter Libby/Valerie Plame case where he was not able to pierce the veil of secrecy surrounding Vice President Dick Cheney and Karl Rove,

Gov. Rod Blagojevich

but brought the investigation close enough that there was little doubt about their involvement in any thinking person’s mind.  Anyway, Fitzgerald has now brought us another episode in my newest political fantasy feature, “Governors Gone Wild.”  It seems that Governor Rod Blagojevich (D-Illinois) has been a very busy crook lately and full of hubris.  To top off all that has been learned about him in a three-year investigation that he knew about, he has now been caught

Jim McGreevy and ex-wife Dina Matos

SELLING Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat because he is the only person in the world who gets to decide the appointment. Now, via this exciting videotape, he joins the rogue’s gallery including Governor James McGreevy (D-New Jersey), who hired his secret gay lover to be the state’s Homeland Security Director, thus pulling himself out of the closet.  OUCH!  And

Eliot Spitzer

there stood his sweet little wife at his side, like so many other sweet little political wives – can you say Laura Bush – as he admitted the whole thing.  And how can we forget that tough-guy Governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, who got outed by his call girl.  Oops!  Aren’t they supposed to keep those dirty little secrets?  In the age of 24 hour cable news and desire on the part of everyone to cash in on their own 15 minutes of fame, the answer to that question is no!

Gov. Sarah Palin

And don’t think that we only have dishonest men in this video.  We’ve got our own little gal gone wild, Sarah Palin.  You Betcha!  Governor Palin (R-Alaska) still hasn’t owned up to abusing the power of her gubernatorial office by trying to get her ex-brother-in-law fired, and then firing the SOB who wouldn’t play along.  That’s right!  Even after a heavily Republican State Legislative Committee found that she did abuse her power, the hubristic Vice-Presidential candidate thanked them for clearing her name.  Yeah, that’s a Governor gone way wild.  Of course all those moralistic right wing nuts are waiting with bated breath for her 2012 run for the Presidency so that honor and integrity will be restored to Washington.

Sen. David Vitter

And if you order Governors Gone Wild in the next ten minutes, we have a bonus for you.  That’s right, you’ll get Politicians Gone Wild for just the small shipping and handling fee.  In this stunning companion video we will show you the moving confession and repentance of Senator David Vitter (R-Louisiana) for cheating on his wife with prostitutes.  Of course, he barely made the cut

Sen. Larry Craig

here because his Republican friends in the US Senate forgave him and helped him get re-elected.  You’ll also see the exciting denial of Senator Larry “The Tap Dancer” Craig (R-Idaho) to the charges that he was attempting to hook up with an undercover police officer in the Minneapolis Airport for a little homosexual slap and tickle.  Not only does the tape contain his denial of the act itself, it contains the bonus footage of Lawyer Craig asserting that he didn’t know what he was doing when he pled guilty to the crime.  In one last bonus feature you will see the Minnesota Appellate Court’s denial of Craig’s appeal today.

Mark Foley

Not to be overshadowed in the special “Republican Congressmen gone wild in a gay way department”, we add e-mail messages sent by Congressman Mark Foley (R-Florida) to under-age male Congressional Pages.  Included is the latest video statement by Foley where he asserts that he isn’t a pedophile

Tim Mahoney

because he only sent e-mails and “never touched those boys.”  And no collection would be complete without the confession of Foley’s Democrat successor, Tim Mahoney, who announced just prior to the election that he had, indeed, been cheating on his good little wife.  OMG!  Another one bites the dust.  I hope his Republican successor is a great deal more chaste or at least more careful.  It seems that that seat has a hex on it.

In this post-Watergate, post-Monica-gate period, what could make a better Christmas present for that special person on your list?  Or, of course, you could just let it be one of those “secret Santa” gifts to surprise someone at that horrible office party you have to go to this year.  What fun you’ll have when that comes slithering out from under the company Christmas tree.  Perhaps you just want to buy it for yourself to add to your dirty little secret collection you stash high up in the closet where the children can’t find it.  Who would know?

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KEEP FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT!

Ms. magazine is living proof that feminist magazines still have a job to do and a place on the market.  The Summer 2008 issue was just a taste of how great Ms. was and how great it can still be.  The magazine is a little small in size but it is still offering readers the content that can be hard to come by in other more popular publications.

Ms. magazine, launched nearly 37 years ago as an insert in New York Magazine, is one of America’s first feminist magazines. Co-founders Gloria Steinem and Letty Cottin Pogrebin wanted Ms. to address the feminist movement that few acknowledged. Ms. was the answer to all the women’s magazines that only focused on fashion, advice on marriage and babies, and cosmetics. 

What had been a monthly in the ’70s to the late ’80s struggled through tight economic times and ownership changes. Now, current owner the Feminist Majority Foundation manages only to publish Ms. a few times a year, and at a relatively steep $5.95 newsstands price for an 80-page issue. 

The slim magazine still packs a punch. Ms.’s Summer 2008 issue offers several facts and statistics on women’s issues. I would have never known about the rising percentage of women being thrown out of the military under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy had it not been for this edition of Ms. It was also great to see a small piece in the front of the book about the Girl Scouts. Ms. offers a spotlight on ads that are still objectifying and over sexualizing women to sell products, from travel to beer, at the back of the book.

            The issue’s five features weren’t long, but they were jam-packed with information.  The longest article was only 4 pages. I particularly appreciated the story about the “D.C. Madam,” a woman who after being convicted of several crimes related to prostitution hanged herself. Her “tricks,” big names in the government such as Republican Sen. David Vitter and Harlan K. Ullman, a retired U.S. Navy commander, walked away free. 

            Ms. still has a function in today’s society. This magazine brings much needed attention to women’s issues across the country that rarely get covered in local or national news or big name women’s magazines.

-Cindia Gonzalez

When it comes to their health, American Indian women face extraordinary barriers — from high disease risks to increased incidents of sexual violence. They now face another obstacle, rooted in the political battleground of abortion.

The Senate’s recent passage of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act was a breakthrough for advocacy groups that have long pushed for the bill’s provisions — new programs, improved facilities and funding for the Indian Health Services (IHS) system, which serves about 1.9 million people nationwide.

But the victory is dampened by a poison pill provision slipped in by Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) that explicitly restricts abortions under IHS programs. The amendment was approved along with the bill in February. As In These Times went to press, it was unclear whether the House would vote on companion legislation carrying a similar amendment.

Speaking at a Right to Life rally in January, Vitter boasted that his amendment put “clear, strong, pro-life language in that Indian healthcare bill.”

BATON ROUGE – Some top Republicans are discussing whether to ask U.S. Sen. David Vitter to resign and packaging a deal with Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco to appoint a place-holding Republican to take his place.

Speculation has centered around former Gov. David Treen, a Republican defeated by Vitter in a 1999 congressional race. Treen and his camp were in private meetings in Metairie today.

“There are some senior Republicans who are seriously discussing the matter. Currently, however, the leadership of the Republican Party has not made a comment on it, nor given any encouragement or discouragement to the effort,” said Christopher Tidmore, a former journalist who is a Republican candidate for state Legislature.

“There are a lot of people talking about this,” Tidmore said.

Among many Republicans, there is fear that the sex scandal surrounding Vitter would interfere with the party’s plans to take over the Louisiana House of Representatives in the fall elections.

If Vitter does resign, the resignation would be submitted to Vice President Dick Cheney as the presiding officer of the U.S. Senate, who would have to officially notify the governor.
[...]Republican media consultant Roy Fletcher, who is running the Louisiana Republican Party’s advertising campaign on behalf of U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal’s campaign for governor, said the potential of Vitter not being around “opens a new door in this governor’s race.”

“I don’t think Vitter will last a week,” Fletcher said.

Not suprisingly the odious Larry Flynt is involved in this sordid tale.

And in the two articles linked below, we read Flynt’s justification for his role in this melodrama.

Larry Flynt claims responsibility for exposing Senator Vitter

The man claiming credit for Senator Vitter’s spontaneous conscience, “Hustler” magazine’s Larry Flynt, said he exposed Vitter because he believes the senator is a hypocrite, campaigning for family values but practicing the opposite in real life.

Flynt says, “I don’t see how it will be able to hang around, but it’s up to him to resign. Maybe he thinks he can regroup. He has to deal with his home state now.” He adds, “So, I’m saying this is payback time and payback’s a **** “

And Flynt says more about his vendetta:

BATON ROUGE – Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt said he has linked “five prostitutes in New Orleans” with Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter, a “family values” advocate.

Flynt said the five would share in a $1 million bounty his magazine offered for those who provide credible information about sexual infidelities of politicians in Congress who back family values.

Hypocrisy makes a politician’s sex life fair game, the publisher said.

“Sometimes I have to go bottom feed,” Flynt said.

“When someone is living a lie contrary to the way they are advocating in their public lives, they become fair game,” he said in a telephone press conference from Los Angeles began shortly after 4 p.m. Louisiana time.

Flynt said he has “20 something investigations going that all look good” into members of Congress, a result of his full-page ad in the Washington Post in early June offering $1 million to anyone who provided credible information about sexual activities by married members who espoused family values.”
[...]
Vitter “is to the right of Attila the Hun every step of the way. Unfortunately, there are too many of these guys in Congress, and I am going to do my part of getting them out of there,” Flynt said.

And I wonder how many of the targets of Flynt’s smear are those who opposed the amnesty bill?
Is Vitter’s high profile in the recent amnesty scuffle behind this effort to force his resignation?

Vitter’s views have put him in direct confrontation with the White House. In the face of complaints from President Bush that opponents are mischaracterizing the issue, Vitter said last month, “If the president wants to have an honest debate, he should start answering some basic questions about the bill he developed with (Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.).”

The political risk of picking a fight with Bush has greatly diminished over the past several months. The president’s approval ratings are at an all-time low of 26 percent in a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.

Yet Vitter’s position is causing his party leaders heartburn and possibly causing friction with party colleagues. ”

And yes, I know Flynt is working in collusion with the sleazy Democrat Party in his vendetta against ‘family values’ politicians, but I can’t help wondering if the leadership of both parties are not out to get Vitter, especially as we saw the disgusting show of bipartisan unity in the cause of giving this country away. The picture of Teddy Kennedy, Lindsey Graham, and Mel Martinez laughing uproariously in a display of gloating over amnesty is still vivid in my mind.

I am just suspicious of the fact that, of all the politicians who are vulnerable to blackmail in this madam scandal, Vitter was the only one made public so far.

As for Vitter’s conduct, I suppose ultimately it’s up to those he represents, his constituents, whether he is to stay or go.

Some conservatives and many Republicans are minimizing the importance of Vitter’s conduct, but I think there is a danger of conservatives being dragged down to the kind of amorality that the Democrats have embraced. If Republicans give in to the temptation to defend Vitter’s behavior in a knee-jerk way, just as the Democrats defended Bill Clinton, then that will further lower the bar for conduct by our public officials. And if that is the result, then the liberals have won a victory.

On the other hand,the conduct in question happened before he was in the Senate, from what I have read. And Vitter’s private conduct was not morally equivalent to Bill Clinton and his trysts in the Oval Office during business hours, and his lying under oath and suborning perjury.

Clinton’s Democrat defenders always vociferously claimed that the scandals were ‘politically motivated’ and a ‘witch-hunt.’ While I think there was little evidence that such was the case, I think it could just be plausible that the charges against Vitter are politically motivated. At the very least, it’s just part of an ongoing payback effort by the Democrats and their stooge Larry Flynt; Flynt admits as much. They will never forget the Clinton impeachment, and much of their fulminating against Bush (though there are plenty of valid reasons to criticize him) results from their rage at the persecution of their unworthy hero, Clinton. And it goes beyond the Clinton business; the Democrats and especially that very vocal segment that hates Christian morality, the traditional family, and ‘family values’, will miss no opportunity to politically destroy anybody who stands for traditional morality. In their twisted universe, anybody who stands for old-fashioned morality is a ‘hypocrite’ and must be destroyed. In the liberals upside-down value system, ‘bigotry’ as they define it and ‘hypocrisy’ are the only two sins. Everything else, including the depravity which is personified in Larry Flynt, is good.

But is it ‘hypocrisy’ to publicly support Christian morality or traditional morality while privately being guilty of violating some tenet of that moral standard? I had that discussion with a young (20-something) friend, who votes Republican and is a professing Christian, back when the Rush Limbaugh drug scandal broke. She felt that Rush was a major hypocrite, (I’m ambivalent, not being much of a Limbaugh fan these days) and that basically everyone who takes a stand for traditional morality is a hypocrite and a phony if they have strayed from the rules in any way. But is this true? All of us at some time in our lives have told lies; sometimes just ‘white lies’ meant to spare somebody’s feelings or we’ve called in ‘sick’ to work when we weren’t . I don’t know of anybody who has never told a lie. So should we say that we can’t oppose lying unless we ourselves have never been guilty of it? Another example: many parents of teens are guilty of having done things that they forbid their kids to do. Most baby-boomers, in that age of excess back in the late 60s and 70s, did some wild things. Have we then forfeited the right to tell our kids not to do the same things? No; just because we have violated a commandment does not mean that we cannot recognize the validity of that commandment. So Vitter, though he professes Christianity, violated the commandment against adultery, and if he is being honest, he has repented. That means nothing to the liberal left; they don’t understand the basics of the Christian faith; Christians know that we are sinners, and that we can do wrong; it’s how we deal with it once we have done wrong that indicates whether we are ‘hypocrites’ or not. But in the liberals’ universe, since all have done wrong, we ought to dispose of all moral standards and rules and just declare moral anarchy. ‘Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law’ as the perverse saying goes. Such would be the preferred world of the Larry Flynts and the Bill Clintons and the rest of the libertine left.

And it is no coincidence that the amnesty proponents use similar reasoning to justify open borders: the law is violated, so let’s just stop the hypocrisy of maintaining borders and laws because the borders are violated and the laws are flouted by many.

Still, the liberals/leftists are not bothered the absurdity of their position; they simply want to trash traditional morality in all its forms and they seem to hate all symbols of such morality.

We know that the Democrats have a burning desire for childish revenge over the Clinton impeachment and the 2000 election. And they openly admit their desire to remove from public life anybody who supports traditional Christian morality. But I think there is more; I wonder if Vitter’s visible role in defeating the amnesty bill has put a bulls-eye on him. I would not be surprised, but we will see if the future targets of this smear campaign prove to be others who ran afoul of the amnesty machine.

I know I said I would try and avoid writing about politics and religion, but…

Another politico has been caught in what he calls “a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible.”

Sen. David Vitter’s (R-LA) telephone number turned up in the files of the so-called D.C. Madam, Deborah Jean Palfrey.
Vitter issued a statement Monday that said: “Several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife in confession and marriage counseling.”

That’s nice, but in 2000, Wendy Vitter told Newhouse News Service she could not be as forgiving as, say, Hillary Clinton.
“I’m a lot more like Lorena Bobbitt than Hillary,” she said. “If he does something like that, I’m walking away with one thing, and it’s not alimony, trust me.”

Hey Wendy, if you’re gonna talk the talk…
But apparently the counseling worked.

Need a major dose of irony? In the House, Vitter succeeded GOP Rep. Robert Livingston, who was in line to replace Newt Gingrich as speaker until Livingston admitted to extramarital affairs and quit Congress. Livingston had been a critic of President Clinton, calling on him to resign over his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Wow. Vitter…Livingston…Gingrich…Clinton. A political all-star team of babe hounds. Bipartisan, too.

I don’t care what they do in their bedrooms. Or hotel rooms. Or offices. Or for all I know, their cars. I just don’t. As long as they do their jobs well, that’s their business, not mine.

But I don’t want them…I don’t want ANYBODY…preaching to me about family values, about morals. I’m a big boy, I have my own. They’re nobody’s business but mine, and they’ve evolved over the years as I get older and (ever so slowly) more mature.

So let me leave you with the BIG QUESTION. And it is a question, because I don’t know.

Vitter says he received forgiveness from God.
Really? Did they chat?
Did God say, “Tsk, tsk Dave. Here comes Wendy with sharp scissors, but I’ll be your wingman.”?
Doesn’t God have better things to do?

Oh I do hope so.

(Material from an Associated Press report was included in this post.)