In case anyone thought The Washington Post was opposed to paying for fantasy sex, please let me highlight two Tuesday WaPoO chatz. Naively, I expected either Michael Fletcher, WaPo White House Reporter, or Eugene Robinson, Opiner, to take a stand against sex-for-sale. Apparently, among the Beltway chatterati, it’s OK to violate marriage vows and pay for a fantasy with a lady, while bloviating about the Sanctity of Marriage.
First, I asked Michael Fletcher a question Tuesday morning:
San Francisco, Calif.: Hi Michael, thanks for taking questions today. Won’t Senator Vitter have to resign his seat? He was elected to the House in the wake of the would-be-Speaker’s infidelity, and now his family values rhetoric appears entirely hollow. I can’t imagine that the GOP caucus will want to keep someone on Ms Palfrey’s list in their midst.
Michael Fletcher: It seems unlikely that Sen. Vitter will have to resign his seat, at least given what we now know. What he faces, though, is a huge political problem. As a conservative politician who has forcefully denied this kind of behavior in the past, he has a lot to explain to voters, it seems to me. But he has asserted that he has received forgiveness not only from his wife but also from God Himself, so maybe the voters of Louisiana will follow.
Later the same day, I asked opinion columnist Eugene Robinson essentially the same question.
San Francisco: Hello, Mr Robinson, thank you for taking my question. Will Sen. Vitter have to resign his seat? He was elected to the House in the wake of the would-be Speaker Livingtons’s infidelity, and now his family values rhetoric appears entirely hollow. I can’t imagine that the GOP caucus will want to keep someone on Palfrey’s list in their midst.
Eugene Robinson: You’re referring to the fact that the Louisiana senator’s phone number was found on the D.C. Madam’s notorious list. I’m not sure Sen. Vitter will be forced out over this. His state is notoriously forgiving of sin — heck, they reelected William Jefferson after $90,000 was found by the FBI in his freezer. And it’s not as if he were chasing underage Senate pages.
The Bush Administration has entirely ignored Louisiana’s post-Katrina plight. Does the Beltway chatterati now claim that Louisianans always forgive sin? Are DeeCee pundits and reporters willing to forgive Senator David Vitter his whoring because Louisianans deserve no better representation? Don’t voters in Louisiana deserve a Senator with integrity? Or is whoring OK in DeeCee — because Washingtonians figure it must be OK in Louisiana?
This inside-the-Beltway acceptance of Senator Vitter’s whoring is shameful. Yet again, the well-fed and the well-housed claim that Louisianans deserve no better than they’ve got. Is DeeCee willing to forgive Senator Vitter’s whoring because his “state is notoriously forgiving of sin?”
Hasn’t Washington learned that Louisiana deserves a break they can’t get from DeeCee? If DeeCee pundits can’t take a stand against buying sex — especially by a Family Values Republican — what hope do Katrina survivors have for a fair hearing in the nation’s capital?
Where’s the outrage?
UPDATE: Who is surprised that Howie Klein has detail from the Louisiana front?
UPDATE II: Chris Cillizza weighs in that “Louisiana is a state not unfamiliar with political scandal,” and presumably therefore undeserving of better than Vitter:
The sheer number of Louisiana politicians who have come under investigation from either state or federal authorities has, frankly, numbed the state’s voters to scandal. A story like this could be absolutely devastating to Vitter in a notorious good government state like Wisconsin or Minnesota; in Louisiana, it might well pass for standard fare.
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His number was on a list….AND he admitted to it the next day. It’s time to Foley him!
tres
Well, its not like he got an expensive haircut or anything. The US newscorpse at work!
Isn’t it illegal to hire a prostitute? Shouldn’t breaking the law while holding an elected office be reason enough to resign?
I’m appalled that the DeeCee Establishment thinking seems to be that Louisianans deserve no better than Vitter. What say you all?
Nice work Teddy,
The Times-Picayune has helpfully bundled all 2,200 pages of phone records into on large searchable pdf.
Woodhall Hollow @ 6
Are you sure he was in office at the time?
Cillizza is an idiot. Most folks in LA knew that Edwin Edwards was a “Ladies Man” as the term goes. But he was not a moralistic hypocrit like Vitter. I saw somethign n a blog (not DWT) that the LA Rethugs were wanting the Gov to appoint a Repub “seat holder.” while Howie’s info is a bit more specific.
But I would say fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing on the odds of Blanco appointing a Repub after what the Repubs did in trashing her so much after katrina and blaming her for their own failures.
BigMitch @ 9
The time frame is 2000-2001. He was in the House, after having taken Livingston seat.
TeddySanFran @ 7
And you are surprised? Teddy, Teddy. SOP for the weenie folk.
On another note. This looks like good news to me:
Could it be that cooler heads are prevailing in the Navy?
I’m appalled, once again, at the level of hypocrisy with the lack of GOP outrage.
BigMitch @ 9
I thought one of the phone calls was in 2004. Then later another one turned up from 2001. And then in addition to that, there was the “rumour” of prostitution which apparently dogged him during his campaign.
“Isn’t it illegal to hire a prostitute?”
that’s what i thought. interesting how all the media types seem to be more interested in the fact that he’s received divine forgivness than the little fact that he has admitted to commiting a CRIME. but ho hum, just another goper who can’t keep it in his pants, nothing to see here.
As far as I am concerned, no sexual pecadillos, including paying for it, should disqualify a serving politician. Unless he has made morality a major issue. When we elected Big Dog Clinton, everyone knew he was a playa. But Vetter was elected for his pro-family happy horse-poop to replace previously outed hypocrit Livingston.
Woodhall Hollow @ 14
There have been a couple of “madams” from New Orleans who have come forward as well taking it back to when he was in the LA legislature.
young lesbian couple seeks hypocrite for threesome…
here are some signs I put up yesterday:
http://freewayblogger.blogspot…..erday.html
Howie’s got an update on the deal the LA GOP is trying to make with outgoing Governor Blanco. Why she would agree to this is absolutely beyond me:
Eureka Springs @ 13
but are you surprised?
BigMitch @ 16
That’s why Larry Flynt has said he is not going after politicians who just have a zippeer problem. He is going after the ones who make the big productions about being holier than thou and moralistic a**holes.
How can I read this and listen to KO at the same time. I am so conflicted…
Been really busy dealing with annoying computer issues all day, so forgive me if this has already been covered. But I just read about the latest from our Tantrum Boy president, and wanted to pass it along. Congress should “not be running the war”, but they should be funding it. *smacks head on keyboard*
TeddySanFran @ 19
Maybe Wendy made good on her threat, and he is having his dic& re-attatched.
The Big Easy…. where diapers never lose their lust…er.
normally i don’t think a sex scandal should necessarily force you out of office either (depending on the circumstances) but it was vitter himself who argued that bill clinton should be impeached for not being “morally fit” to hold office. if vitter applies the same standards to himself that he seems to hold for others, then yes, he should resign.
but what am i talking about. republicans never hold themselves to the same standards.
Elliott @ 20
Uh, no.
Special Comment tonght on Keith re Chertoff’s “Gut feeling.”
Goody.
Rachel on KO, Dept. of Justice has been handled like Gonzoles is WH lawyer. Congress is going to have to decide how to bypass Justice. Special prosecutor.
So how does he know God has forgiven him?
OT – sorry, but Rachel Maddow is so good on KO it hurts.
TheraP @ 25
“New Orleans is a marvelous environment for coincidence.” My favorite line from the movie, “The Big Easy.”
Teddy, et al,
Wolcott does Vitter.
Does him well.
Spew alert.
OT
I don’t know where I was all day, but I completely missed this one:
Surgeon General Nominee Defends Himself
Fair and balanced decision wrt presser today. Rachel on KO-Bush doesn’t understand the case, just who Libby is.
The media should bring back the focus to what harm done to CIA and Valerie. If Bush does not have a beef with the sentence, he should allow further investigations.
More and more democrats want impeachment on the table. Americans love the constitution more than Bush. (Really?????)
PwapVt @ 30
George Bush told him so.
Hell, Republicans don’t care about that stuff anymore. Hell, they’re thinking about nominating Guiliani. Republicans stand for nothing but naked power. They have no actual core beliefs any more. And fundamentalist Christians who think otherwise are being played for chumps by GOP power-brokers.
Such nice, clean-cut young men it that music video! Not like those Republican animals running our government.
Boston1775 @ 31
I wish Abrams would give her and Stephanie Miller the hour after Keith.
Did anyone catch Tweety’s brother on Hardball today. Besides “accidentally” calling Obama – Osama; he and the rest of the panel just didn’t understand why anyone is focusing on this Vitter matter. This is between him and his wife and there is important business for the Senate to do.
So somehow the fact that Vitter is not showing up to do his job is whose fault??? How about Vitter!
BTW – from the reaction of all these guys it makes me wonder if it’s no big deal Vitter broke the law is because their numbers are in some prostitutes phone book.
Elliott @ 34
When he says Joyce Lynn Elders was the best SG evah! I will start to take him seriously.
Robinson is right about Jefferson, Teddy.
Re: Rachel Maddow on KO tonight, who asserted that the Libby commutation was nothing about the crime and all about the defendant …
This citation is from the opinion in Libby case, issued today in which the judge sided with the Government and held that Libby can get “supervised release” even though he didn’t get released:
Ohio Adult Parole Auth. v. Woodard, 523 U.S. 272, 292 (1998) (Stevens, J., concurring in part and dissenting in part) (suggesting that “[the] use [of] race, religion, or political affiliation as a standard for granting or denying clemency” would offend the Equal Protection Clause).
(Sorry for duplicate posting; this appeared in a different thread.)
RevDeb @ 12
Wonderful news, RevDeb!
e.c. @ 15
Wasn’t so ho hum when Clinton did it, was it. Diapers? Suppose that’s true?
LoHoo–a very EPUed message to you at the end of the Walton comments re: your comment on Tony Snow, who has not looked well. Any thoughts about why a mortal would choose to spend what appear to be his final days shilling for Bushco?
Eureka Springs @ 41
Clinton should never have asked her to resign
cleter @ 37
Not just any old kind of power. It must be, as you state, “naked power”.
Eureka Springs @ 41
Kennedy and Waxman both are introducing legislation to strengthen the surgeon general’s position and to make it independent of political partisan influence over science and health education.
mighty mouse @ 46
He may need the job for the health insurance. Not snark. :^(
Cáitín @ 40
contradictions galore!. Matthews is obsessed with Bill Clintons behaviour and brings it up aud nauseum.
I agree with Loo Hoo that it’s hard to listen to KO and read here. And, I’m usually good at multy-tasking…(also making dinner.)
Strange Days Indeed.
But, thanks RevDeb for the good news. I think that (that Man) has pi**ed off even the military and it is indeed good news to hear that there might be cooler heads prevailing.
And, PS, let’s not assume that G*D has heard Vitter’s confession.
And, that DC is not outraged, it just tells you how corrupt and sinful they are. Trying not to judge, just making an observation.
If you guys want the story on Vitter, keep tabs on NOLA.com, it’s our paper on-line. Vitter is hated by state level Repubs., that’s why the deal with Blanco was brought up. Vitter has always wanted the WH and thought he would be Rudy’s v.p. Everyone here (in New Orleans) thinks he is and always has been, a scumbag hypocrite. However, outside of the city, most of the state stills supports him. Something we should all do is go to the La. Supreme Crt. site and report him for ethical violations. What he did was a crime and he should be disbarred or at least have his license suspended.
Nequals1 @ 49
but will they get a veto-proof vote?
The main difference between Rudy Guiliani and Hillary Clinton is that Hillary respects the institution of marriage.
mighty mouse @ 46
he was asked specifically about his health by Barnacle (who is subbing for Tweety) He said he is in great shape. So the answer to your question is “Denial. Perfectly natural.”
RevDeb @ 54
I think they are working on the legislation based on Carmona’s testimony which included recommendations for changing the job description and authority. The Repubs might sign off on this as being a PR move – the job doesn’t have a lot of inherent authority, and so can’t do a lot of damage either way. My initial guess is that it would be well-received and not obstructed. But only a guess.
If we don’t do something fast and radical about the warming Earth, La., and particularly N.O.’s problems may be quite literally be out of our hands.
On another note. This looks like good news to me:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon will reduce its naval presence in the Gulf to one aircraft carrier group by August, defense officials said on Thursday.
Could it be that cooler heads are prevailing in the Navy?
Or it could be that hotter heads figure that they’ll be all done bombing Iran back into the Stone Age by then.
/cynicism…/cynicism
/cynicism – damn thing won’t shut off!
DeeCee journalists and pundits who comment that Vitter’s lawbreaking is no big deal must take the Peter Baker pledge:
Oh what a night – Michael Moore is having a ball shashaying through the last few years where no one, executive or MEDIA (doing this on KO is beyond great) did their job on Iraq.
jayt @ 59
Or it could be that shit’s just wearing out.
Elliott @ 34
Reminds me of Roberts on stare decisis and is probably as believable.
KO story #3 “Health on Reels”
Great punning.
Big Mitch–Denial. Yep, that would work. Thanks for the insight!
When will people understand it is the voters who are getting pimped?
MM on KO; ‘No one has ever filed for bankruptcy in Canada, UK, etc. for medical bills!!!’
Nornally, I think prostitution is a bs crime, this time I want him nailed. Fuck him and his invalidating my life. I hope his wife carries through on her comment
Michael Moore on KO: mighty mouse @ 46
I don’t think he’s in his final days, mighty mouse, but I would think that anyone with cancer would think about their imprint on the world during their life. Most of us here at FDL think about that every day. I cannot presume to imagine why he continues to speak Bushtalk, but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that he has gained wealth as a result of it.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 66
I think I’m going to pitch a reality series called
“Pimp My Senator.”
Balco lawyer who leaked gets 30 months in jail. He’ll most likely have to serve them.
He’s already pled the Libby defense.
So who’s leak was more harmful to the country?
Man, this guy Michael Moore is good! Man-o-man!
“It’s not the diapers, it’s the hypocrisy.”
heh.
RevDeb @ 71
oooh Keith Olbermann is going to have a field day with this!!!!
Teddy
I just can’t get irate about this. It’s a good story, a damn good story but when you come from Chicago, which, almost from it’s inception, has had politicians who were mobbed up, or themselves ran bootleg booze and prostitutes, dabbling in extra-marital sex with an paid escort, well, it’s par for the course.
Hell, Illinois had a Secretary of State who all his political life bragged about taking money. And when he died, the state police reported finding $1,000,000 in cash in shoe boxes in his apartment. (Which mean that originally there was $2,000.000 in cash next to his cold dead body.)
Chicago has an emperor who inherited his throne from his emperor father. The current Daley, when he was Cook County State’s Attorney looked the other way when Chicago police Captains were torturing prisoners, something he can’t quite seem to remember these days. The city shells out millions and millions of dollars paying for police brutality cases and nothing changes.
Frankly (this may be heretical)if Chicago politicians spent more time with escorts rather than taking meetings with the mob or construction companies looking for a share of the action, Chicagoans would be a hell of a lot better off.
Could it be that cooler heads are prevailing in the Navy?
the Navy does nothing without orders from above.
Nothing…
i wonder if an attack on Iran, just before the ’surge-success report is due…
after which it will be convenient and expedient to dispatch a couple of carrier groups for home…
It’s not the sex that concerns me. It’s the hypocrisy.
kathleen @ 51
you mean Osama, excuse me; Chris, Matthews?
Well, I’m from Florida, where we never have this kind of sexual scandal, and I’m shocked..oh, damn. Foley. Forgot. My bad. Pardon me, Louisiana. Carry on, Senator Man-whore.
That, don’t ask don’t tell, NAFTA, and the continued no fly zone over Iraq.. turned me away from Bill once and for all.
wgg: tokin lib’rul @ 76
you mean cut and run? or bomb and run? Those big boats don’t move very fast.
Osama Vitter wears diapers?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 58
the only difference’ll be that instead of gated neighborhoods, they’ll have bridged neighborhoods.
Eureka Springs @ 80
Bill Clinton was the best Republican president ever. He was like a smooth-talking Southern Rockefeller Republican.
Let’s not forget that libertine, Jimmy Carter, who lusted in his heart……see, dem’s bad too!
The Mosler Man-Sized safes in Shooter’s office? – they are for storing his mechanical women, made by the same company that builds his hearts! Shooter can’t even buy sex from human women, his has to have ‘em built! Do you think he dresses ‘em up in blue dresses, or maybe has them made to look like Hillary, or maybe Victrola ToeSuckling (eewwwww)!
I don’t really care what people do with their dicks- but I think it’s funny as hell when a guy who jumps all another’s sexual behavior while at the same time fuckin up a storm gets caught…..
Often guys go to whores cause they like forms of sex that their wives aren’t interested in. Will be interesting as the hole story comes out.
RevDeb @ 82
you mean cut and run? or bomb and run? Those big boats don’t move very fast.
quick enough: 40 knots x 24 hrs = 960 nautical miles
who’s got a navy or an af that could catch ‘em?
(better late than never Department)
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This is my VIDEO REPLY #2 to the “This is your brain on politics” thread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiVrPsT7Qxg
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My VIDEO REPLY #1 uploaded fine but the sound was not in sync, so I’m reuploading it. Which raises a point: Yes there are tech snags here and there with video quality, compression, uploading etc. But it takes 1-2 times to figure out how to best compress video for web playback, then it’s just stamping the out… so stand by for REPLY #1 — which is really where the substance is…
thank you.
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BigMitch @ 16
For me the issue is not about sex. It is about lawmakers obeying the law. Similarly, I have no problem with pot smoking, but I would not be happy to discover that my rep was smoking it in DC, not because I think it is wrong for reps to smoke pot, but it is wrong for them to break the law.
Hi I’m Osama Vitters and when I’m enjoying the services of Washington’s finest prostitutes, and I do mean F.I.N.E. I like to relax with man-sized diapers.
It brings out the man in me. heh.
rwcole @ 86
Nice misspelling.
cleter @ 84
All the nastiness about Clinton, I don’t get it..
DADT sucks, NAFTA isn’t great, but we did make progress
I just don’t understand giving Nancy Pelosi a pass when it comes
to not putting Impeachment on the table. Barbara Boxer yesterday
called for Impeachment to be put on the table. Go read Dover
Bitch over at Hullaboo today on her excellent post about Congress
abdicating its Constitutional Authority. All Pelosi has to say is
“I will respect the will of the American people in this matter.
Impeachment is on the table!’ GO CINDY SHAHEEN!
NC Rep. David Almond (RRRRRR) also having a bit of trouble in the sex scandal department…..sorry, no linky b/c I hit a server error but available at DWT. At least he had the decency to resign immediately.
Consider this a [**********] exceptionally wide *g*. Dropping like flies, they are.
prostitutes who make a hell of a tax free living aren’t exploited.
chinese nationals who eat takeout once a day and never get out of highrises in suburbs are.
Perhaps the carriers are moving to just outside Iranian anti-ship missile range, until after our land-based bombers hit Iranian missile sites. Then the carriers can move back in and bomb and strafe and what not.
Mitch
Thanks
Waccamaw @ 94
was this today?
wgg: tokin lib’rul @ 83
what gated neighborhoods?
well, like they say about Clinton; he was the best Republican president the country ever had.
Rep. Sanchez was so impressive during the hearing today. Really an inspiration!
Contempt
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/….._0711.html
Mabel’s Wig Shack @ 100
Lincoln was best. Clinton was maybe second. Oh, wait, TR. Clinton was third.
Waccamaw @ 94
link.
It’s not universal- but there is a type of person who is sex obsessed who finds it convenient to project his behavior onto others and then condemn them soundly for it…Happens often enough to know it isn’t an accident.
Republicans could run on this platform in 2008: ‘Family values and law and order. We avoid these issues at all costs.’
Thing one: Clinton a republican? There are no black republicans.
Thing two: KO is on fire.
BigMitch @ 106
One: Clinton is not exactly black.
Two: Colin Powell
Three: Condi Rice
Four: Clarence Thomas
Ko on Chertoff, we should contemplate his gut. We used to worry about getting enough duct tape, them color alerts, now the gut. 5 possible
1. Not gut but backside. Two accomplishments
2. Cries of wolf. There isn’t anything cooking. Republican revolt over Iraq.Deliberately scaring Americans.
3. Report that Al Queda has grown. Your boss let this happen for his vain and foolish purposes. The phoney expert you are. The smart kid said something you bought.
4. shot off your bazoo, and said to the Chicago tribune. (missed it)
5. Louisiana is a city that is really underwater. Bowels, digestive track. All hail the gut. We’ve lost too much in the last 6 years to listen to your gut. You’re a clown. Turn it over to someone listening to their brain, not their gut.
BigMitch @ 106
heh.
rwcole @ 86
I agree – I don’t care what any two consenting adults do but I do care when someone like Vitter makes it the entire case for his political career:
Vote for me because I didn’t put my penis in Monica’s mouth like that evil Clinton. Vote for me because I hate gay people. Vote for me because I want to legislate your vagina; even when you have been a victim of violence.
So I wonder when Mrs. Vitter found out – did she go Lorena Bobbitt on her husband and what kind of STD’s did Senator Vitter bring back to his marriage bed.
Frederick Douglass. He was a Republican, too.
BigMitch @ 98
It’s the lead @ DWT so am assuming so. Did a quick read of a linky there that illustrates an attempt at coverup as noted in DWT but didn’t pay attention as to date.
Oh God, I hope the Navy story is true!! That would be so great.
cleter @ 107
They’re black? Do you know the old Yiddish joke that goes with the punch line, “Yes, but to an Indian Chief is he an Indian Chief?”
P.S. Colin Powell is, in actual point of fact, not African American. He is Carribean American.
Campaign slogan(or tee shirt): David Vitter, working HARD, for the people of Louisiana.
boxer @ 114
Poster with all of the pictures of R. pervs and caption: Hardened criminals.
TSF: Robert Allen, the Republican caught in the bathroom last night…..I guess that is the way he supports the troops. It was in Titusville, in Veteran’s Memorial Park.
Robert Allen Supports the troops
Mr. Chertoff shot off his bazzoo.
his bazzoo?
as I would say to my kid Keith, Great use of the word, bazzoo
will his gut growl??
mentions his bowel…
KO and his writers are, he is, they are
the brain
and not the gut
Appreciation for Keith’s Special Comment may be directed to: feedback@msnbc.com, dabrams@msnbc.com, kolbermann@msnbc.com, viewerservices@msnbc.com, letters@msnbc.com,
Lew Koch @ 75
It’s about the hypocricy, Lew.
ccmask @ 116
more from Howie on Allen.
Thanks, RevDeb!
Thanks for keeping them on their toes, Teddy.
BTW, I did get a long e-mail back from Deb the Howler after I e-mailed her about her latest lousy column. To her credit, she tried to explain herself–but she is so clueless it’s hopeless to think she’ll ever understand what she is doing wrong.
As for why she doesn’t take on big issues of the day–you know, like the Post’s coverage of a War we were lied into and the destruction of the Constitution–the way the Times’ public editor does for the Times? Well, readers tell her they “only like to read columns specific to reader complaints.” So, she says, “I try to stick to readers’ issues.” That’s quite the distinction. And what am I anyway, Deb, chopped liver??
FYI, new post and thread
Yup, Loo Hoo. I can’t get terribly worked up about a politician who brags all his life about stealing from the public trough — and then his house is fulla cash when he dies.
But telling Americans that the most important issue before the US Senate is preventing me and the fiance from marrying — this I have to listen to from a guy who cheats on his wife because she won’t diaper-play with him?
He must resign.
BigMitch @ 106
In a sane world Clinton would be a moderate RePug, and maybe the only Black Republican Prez…Bu$h and his cabal “call” themselves RePugs, but in reality they are radical neo-cons who have hijacked the name.
Clinton is bright and has charm to spare, unlike the current excuse for a decider…..
When we get this impeachment underway, please start with Shooter…..nobody wants him to be Preznit in name as well as in fact for even a minute. Though I guess at least if he was Preznit in name we would know what branch of Government he is in…….until he changed it to the Royal Branch (if that hasn’t been done by a Treat as Secret/SCI Preznitial Order #666 already!
The one good thing about Cheney is that he can’t live much longer, can he? Maybe he keeps Dr. Frist in one of them there Mosler Safes for artificial heart maintenance via video link (can’t let him out of the safe you know, he might run away).
CityGirl @ 122
Essentially, she’s turned her column into a chat forum for three (or fewer) readers per week.
I think the “reader” whose column-topic preference she’s sharing with you is Donald Graham.
Boston1775 @ 117
sorry, correction,
they – KO and the writers – have gut; the important thing is that they are also, while using their gut, full of great brain.
Gooper goes into washroom- and immediately comes up to cop and offers to pay the cop $20 for the privelege of suckin his dick- ya can’t make this stuff up!!!
rwcole @ 128
I don’t think cops have any business entrapping people in public restrooms, but this particular lawmaker must have needed it pretty bad.
rwcole @ 129
Did the cop have to pay up and get it up and go through with the “act” to make the charge “stick
ey.Maybe we can call it supporting the troops orally, one dick at a time! Did Cheney really call the cop to find out where to find this guy?
EXILE
NO It was the GOOPER who offered the $20 as I understand it- funny as hell!!
TeddySanFran @ 130
Police report of the arrest:
http://www.floridatoday.com/bl…..watchlist/
The way I read this the police officer was there for another reason and Allen did everything he could to get busted.
rwcole, well maybe he’s trying to support the troops financially as well….unusual for a Gooper!
RevDeb @ 81
Actually, aircraft carriers are fast, they have to be in order to get enough wind over the deck to launch aircraft. Their biggest problem is their ability to maneuver quickly, as in dodging torpedoes, Iranian suicide gunboats in massed squadrons, and the odd anti-ship missile.
So ya got SOME goopers who are in the $300 per hour class- for gettin off- and other goopers who are in the $20 per session range- for gettin someone ELSE off.
It’s a class society.
I thought Allen wanted the $20.00 for doing it.
According to a news report, he has $24,000 in his coffers. But really, in a Veteran Memorial Park???
I said ‘hey buddy’ and Allen said ‘hi’ and then stepped away again. About 5 seconds later Allen pushed open the door to my stall and stepped inside. I was standing againste the far wall of the tall . Allen closed the door behind him and stood against it. I said ‘What’s up?’ and Allen again said ‘hi.’ Allen then said, ‘this is kind of a public place isn’t it?’ I said, ‘do you have somewhere else we can go?’ Allen said, ‘How about across the bridge, it’s quiet over there.’ Allen engaged me in a conversation in which it was agreed that he would pay me $20 in order to perform a ‘blow job’ on me. Allen stated that he wanted me to ride with him across the river before he performed the act and gave me the money. Before entering Allen’s vehicle I identified myself as a police officer and detained him.”
Why didn’t Allen just call KKKarl and ask for Gannon’s number? He couldn’t want more than $24,000, of course KKKarl might not like to share.
Well, if the Pentagon plans to leave those carrier groups in the Persian Gulf until after attacking Iran, it had better be prepared to explain to ten or fifteen thousand families why they’re missing a family member permanently. Iran doesn’t have nukes, but they do have missiles.
$24,000?
Hell- with that kinda dough he could blow- well let’s see- 1200 guys!!!
Allen’s gonna claim that it was a sting operation and that he was the stinger!
Or- Allen was doin research for the “ways and means” committee.
The developments of the last few days have not been kind to the so-called “values voters” of the Republican Party. One after another, paragons of conservative virtue have been going down (so to speak). And making matters worse, they are taking down the top GOP presidential campaigns with them.
For the details, see:
“Sex and Drugs Rock Republicans.”
Vitter can do whatever he wants and then ask his Imaginary Friend to forgive him.
Why isn’t Rabbi Lieberman going to the
Senate floor to announce how offended he is by this?
I just ran through the comments, and I’m surprised that no one else has made this point. You’re outraged that the two pundits you talked to didn’t answer your question with expressions of outrage at Vitter. Now, outrage at his hypocrisy is certainly warranted – but that wasn’t the question you asked. The question, as quoted, was about what they felt the *political* reaction by voters and other Republicans would be. They answered….”Not much.” Knowing the current crop of GOP congresscritters and their voting base, would you say that this answer was wrong? I sure wouldn’t. Now, if you’d asked the pundits what *their* reaction to Vitter was, and what they thought *should* be done about it, then your rant against them would be entirely justified. Given what was actually asked, though, I don’t entirely understand what your point is.