File this one under "If he was a Democrat this would be all over the evening news and drive-time radio":
Louisiana Sen. David Vitter may be called to testify in the upcoming trial of a woman accused of running a high-end Washington prostitution ring.
The Republican senator was identified Monday as one of several possible witnesses as jury selection began in the racketeering and money laundering case against Deborah Palfrey.
Vitter has acknowledged being involved with her escort service. But after issuing brief statements apologizing for "a very serious sin," he has ducked follow-up questions.
On the witness stand, he would not have that luxury. One of Palfrey's previous attorneys has said he wanted to make Vitter say exactly what services Palfrey's company provided the senator.
But it gets better (h/t HuffPost):
A car carrying U.S. Sen. David Vitter ran into a No Parking sign in the Gonzales Police Department parking lot Monday morning as the senator was attempting to evade members of the media, including the Gonzales Weekly Citizen, following a Town Hall forum event at Gonzales City Hall.
No one was injured in the incident, but the car - in which Vitter was a passenger - sped away from the scene with visible, but light damage following the wreck.
You can watch the video, courtesy of WAFB Channel 9 in Baton Rouge, by clicking here.
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The mainstream media is a propaganda tool of the right wing corporations that own it.
Pretending that the MSM is supposed to be “fair” and “even handed” is part of right-wing framing and must be rejected.
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PW! Good evening.
Schadenfreude-ilicious!
yeah and this jerk is one of my senators … what an embarassment
Wingnut response: The lieberal media identified him as a REPUBLICAN senator! They would never do that if he was a Dhimmicrat!
PW!
let me see - unsafe backing for starters, and i’m not sure everyone in that car is wearing their seatbelts…
Phoenix Woman!
Suz, that definitely sounds like at least one moving violation and a couple of extra tickets on top of that…
Good evening everyone…. I have a brand new grand baby…. baby girl born today at 7:39 am….
Vitter’s car should have been wearing a diaper.
when i saw that on the nightly news i nearly rolled off the bed laughing … my cat thought i’d had way too much tequila for the evening he gave me a wtf look
Vitter missed his hearings today. He must have been so discombubulated from the accident that he would have needed diapers to get through the day.
woohoo grandma katymine
Congrats katymine!
When do we see pics?
Congrats katymine, that is happy news :-)
OMG!!! Congratulations, katymine. What’s her name? How very cool.
Evening PW. May Diaper Dave pull the rest of the repiglicans down with him.
Congratulations!
Parnelli Jones? Not so much.
Vitter is more of a Max Mosley kind of guy.
PW, it gets even better when the Prosecutor says the hottest seat in DC will be the chair next to the Judge…!
if i was his wife, I’d go on a permanent vacation to paris where I’d sip wine, take a lover, and get a lawyer to relieve the senator of all assets, meanwhile the kids would be having fun at a swiss boarding school
Firedogbaby.
congratulations … and ask senator vitter to send over his extra diapers!
Congrats, Katy!
Ok here it is….. Oriah Rain was born today in Seattle ….. by C-section… have not see pics yet…. This will be my third granddaughter…. Amethyst and Jade are 10 & 6
And it is Nana katymine….. grannies get to choose… ;)
I’m wondering if they have anything. Only a serious need for money could have kept him in the senate to face ridicule every day of his life. He could have just disappeared if money were no object…
I like the way you think.
digg it
WTF how can this dirt bag get off when Elliot Spitzer gets run out of office… Oh yeah he is repubiclican and they always get off with a get out of jail card from this administrations joke of a DOJ…. The freeking Bastards!
my mom decided she was a nana. tis a fine name, katymine
Maybe leaving the scene of an accident?
I don’t know, I just get it … once one gets potomac fever, all bets are off …
meanwhile, brad pitt is talking about running for our mayor …
and senator jefferson’s brother just put in a not guilty charge for bribing a school board person …
life down here in new orleans is just DUCKY!
Katymine
That’s wonderful ! Granddaughters are the best - all that shopping and stuff. I hope you enjoy every minute of this young life.
BTW, Cspan is re-airing the Foreign Relations committee testimony, which was a lot better than the Armed Services committee testimony!
a woman has to have her priorities
katymine, how sweet! When do you get to hold her?
the RNC doesn’t have the money to run all these special elections, it is the reason why Renzi has NOT resigning….. the GOP begged him to stick it out so they would not have to put up funds for special elections all over the country…
I had a Nana. She was wonderful. Lived to be 102. Now one of my cousins calls herself that with her grandkids.
Can you Digg it?
Ok katy how many does that make? Congratulations… I get to see my latest next week :>) (number six)
Ducks in New Orleans? Too funny. It would be cool to have Brad Pitt as your mayor though. Guy seems to really care about the city.
I’m going to try to be up there for the Memorial week …. starting a project and going to NYC every other week starting next week…
I am hoping to avoid being a Nana for at LEAST another 10 yrs. Willing to be an Aunt Nana 9 months or so after nephew’s wedding this summer.
Congratulations, Nana Katymine! How sweet.
yeah, maybe better than clint eastwood or sonny bono … he seems sincere but he’s not the brightest bulb i’ve ever talked to down here, and believe me, we’ve been innudated with potential do gooders…
Next thing we know Suzanne will be telling us about nanahood.
awesome post
evening, pups
o/t video in honor of the PA primary
(it’s an O video)
David Spader said everything that needs saying about the ratings/money driven newsiness of corporate television tonight on Boston Legal…except this….
Anyone else we would know?
Welcome Mayor Pitt.
my future son in law comes with 2 pre-teen daughters, 9 and 12. i do, however, have to say that jen did break one ribbon at the bridal shower…
Digg is not cooperating for me tonight…but I definitely dig it.
RotRow double trouble in the DIGG world… did you check to see iof there were duplicates??? As Suz would ask…. ducking
Ooooo, that theory’s still around, huh? :)
What I learned about being too young to be a Nana is that your kids just do not consult you….. they just do it to ya…… and we have to make the best of it….. even if it scary to see your 20 yr old handle being a daddy of a 5 week premi (first grand baby)…. never seen a kid grow up so fast as he did in those first few months….
I bet!
neuro got the digg up top so i edited your digg to remove your link, nahant. that way, the post can be dugg from the front page
fyi, nahant and neuro used different categories…one’s Pol News and the other Pol Opinion
congrats, katy
i’ve meet the prince and princess of wales, know anderson cooper well now, both president clinton and bush 1 (attended my class on campus in December following Katrina giving money for the fund for universities) one of the saudi princes, tons of musicians including every one but bono from U2, bruce springstein, oh, really too many to name … I live in the ninth ward and right after katrina, they staged all the visits to the worst hit areas from the community center across the street from me, bill cosby, jesse jackson, of course Elizabeth and John Edwards, bus filled with senators including hillary … also the musician’s village is a few blocks away, that still attracts TONS of folks … head of the Greek orthodox church —old dude from greece that just died not too long ago …
hmmm eek baby talk *covering ears*
Vitter can plead the Lisa Nowak diaper defense.
I scared the kids last night when I saw this report on the evening news. I could not stop laughing at the absurdity of it. Then when I heard the polcie chief say that no charges would be filed, and that the local cops hit that sign all the time, that was the cherry on the sundae. If Average Joe Citizen had clipped that sign and then driven off there’d have been hell to pay.
I would not be at all surprised if Vitter is called as a witness in the trial there will be a push for him to resign. Now that there is a Republican Governor, there’s no worries over his replacement like there were when Blanco was Governor. Any questioning of the hypocracy in this scenario will of course be pooh-poohed as so much partisan blather.
Really cool, wb! Really. I wonder if people in other parts of the world check YouTube for Obama ads? It’s blowing my mind what’s happening this time!
ga ga ga GA ga ba ba BA!
yeap and yeap
Funny!
Yeah, why is Vitter still in office? Double standards suck.
Time to cook for the little lady… be back after dinner Ny steak, Broccoli, cauliflower and potatoes au Gratin !!
i picked it up from kos but your right, folks should continually check. i love the video…very clever take on the original
I did get to see the pics from the shower. Looked like it was a fun time! Now I remember about the girls too. Oh boy, youth is for the young, huh?
my parents and his have been asking when we might have a lil one.
he won’t quit, he hides out when any one brings it up, the newspapers down here, even the conservative ones in ne LA have called for it … the original excuse was democratic gov would appoint a Dem senator … but we have that nasty Jindahl now, so he has NO excuse, but he RUNS from the press, doesn’t do interviews, just hides all the time
And?
i finally remembered their ages (or at least close enough) but can’t remember their names… oy, i am so gonna get in trouble if the bride finds out…
i’ll give the standard answer:
eerr ummm well uhhhhh
If you’re gonna, don’t wait too long, being an old mom is freaking exhausting. Srsly. :)
we’re not ready and not sure whether we want to bring a lil one in the world. it’s an ongoing discussion.
Location, location, location!!
wobbs, just tell them “you’ll be among the first to know…” *g*
i still have plenty of time :)
roflmao
the baby right now is of the four legged variety, which works for us at the moment
And…
no kidding, my area didn’t flood so I could star gaze and camp out in my undamaged but no electricity, no water, no gas on house…
my baby is a foul mouthed teen.
Do you think he shit his diapers when he hit that post? Yaaooosaa.
see answer at #73
There you go, wobbs! The four leggers are our babies…
OT, but I get one blogwhore a night:
Ralph Peters: Sound and Fury
What a great name. Congratulations!
I have found that the four legged variety of babies is very satisfying. My two legged baby is 26 and doesn’t seem inclined to have anything but the four legged kind for a long while. She left home and I got dogs. Good deal.
Redundant?
So true, mm. I am one and so was my mom.
congratulations!!!!
Cool. Look at it this way, your future little one could be the one to save the world.
Funny, I never got the “when are you gonna give me grandkids” line from either parent. I think mom figured it was never gonna happen, and dad was afraid it would and everyone would know he was old enough to have grandkids. They were very young when I arrived (18 & 19) and I had the big kid at 35, so I think they got off easy. They could have been grandparents by 40.
Heh! Funny. I just want a serious news person to ask him if he is wearing diapers. (Mic in face…Senator, are you wearing diapers right now?)
i should have you talk to my mom , lol. cool your daughter and i are the same age :)
last nite, my baby did her graveyard shift ride along with the ambulance company as part of her training for certification for being an emt (goal is to become paramedic). she was complaining there was no blood at the major trauma car crash they went on… but she said they ended up transporting the driver from the hospital to the airport to be lifeflighted to las vegas due to neck fractures.
mine is not foul-mouthed, just mouthy and with every infliction of her voice it seems to say, “My mother is the most stupid person on the planet”, how she manages this without saying anything out right foul, STILL amazes me…like OHHH, mu THER
nicely done TKK
Suz I don’t know how you can say that as mine was posted here before neuro’s got her… but oh well so long as the lake gets credit where credit is due!!!! :>) I’ll get you next time nero *G*
There’s a reason girls are really fertile while they’re young. Nature’s way.
Does my heart good to hear about the younger people getting into emergency services :-)
i think digg picked neuro’s to be the one at the top of the page. i think you must have done yours seconds later and since you used a different category, you did not get warned about the possible duplicate.
as long as the lake gets the diggs :) yeap that is what counts and why i chose the digg that was accessible from the front page top of the post instead of the digg in the comments.
Do you suppose they will ask him in the trial if he was wearing diapers during his encounters with the ladies? The Repubs would have a hissy fit. I, on the other hand, would love it.
Isn’t that the truth? Funny how the sound of Muthah can change when money is needed, though.
oh, please let them have asked. *g*
muh OMMMMMMM!! Yer emBARASSSINGGGG MEEEEEEeee!!!
with both her mom and dad in law enforcement, she kinda had the deck stacked against her. she started doing police ride alongs back when she was around 7 on bring your daughter to work day
G’night all.
g’nite ll
I’d like to know if he’s wearing diapers to the trial. (!)
yup, that would be it … know it well
mine can do it with “the look”