![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Vitti-cent Hooker-Fest Continues
Jul. 13th, 2007 08:22 amFor the 4th day in a row, the Senator David Vitter prostitute scandal is on the front page above the fold of today's Times-Picayune. Alas, none of the headlines has read "Vitter Resigns" yet.
Additional revelations have appeared each day, confirming Vitter's involvement with prostitutes both in the D.C. area and Louisiana going back to the '90s, including stories which came out as allegations before elections years ago and which Vitter denied. Once the first story became significant news, reporters apparently started doing a bit of investigating on some of the older stories.
I haven't seen some of the more sorid details confirmed in the mainstream media yet, though Vitter's diaper fetish, a few days ago dismissed as a rumor on the blog-0-sphere, was referenced by Jay Leno on the Tonight Show last night.
Some of the local Republican Right have been defending Vitter. I'm all for the proposition that what adults do with their genitalia is nobody else's business, but that's exactly contrary to what Vitter and his supporters have been pushing for years. I think it would be on the whole better if prostitution were legalized and regulated, but the fact is that in pretty much all of the USA other than some counties in Nevada, it's illegal. Vitter pledged to uphold the law, but Vitter is a criminal.
Vitter's been absent on the Senate floor, and is said to be in an undisclosed location (hiding in the Cheneybunker?). One internet rumor I'm not putting any stock in at this point is that he's in the hospital after his wife really did follow through with her threat to his Senatorial Staff. Though of course Vitter's real problem is between his ears, not his legs.
Speaking of COX (Haw!) I'm supposed to get cable hooked up today. I thought I was done with ATT years ago, but they bought out my local phone company, so I'll shell out some more money and get high speed internet and transfer my phone to Cox Cable. While I'm at it, I'm finally stepping boldly into the 1980s and getting a cable tv hookup as part of the package. Broadcast tv already had more television than I cared to watch, but now Ms. Hollie and I will be able to watch "Countdown" or "The Daily Show" together rather than on YouTube.
In other news, City Council member Shelley Midura has called on District Attorney Eddie Jordan to resign. Give 'em hell, Shelley.
Additional revelations have appeared each day, confirming Vitter's involvement with prostitutes both in the D.C. area and Louisiana going back to the '90s, including stories which came out as allegations before elections years ago and which Vitter denied. Once the first story became significant news, reporters apparently started doing a bit of investigating on some of the older stories.
I haven't seen some of the more sorid details confirmed in the mainstream media yet, though Vitter's diaper fetish, a few days ago dismissed as a rumor on the blog-0-sphere, was referenced by Jay Leno on the Tonight Show last night.
Some of the local Republican Right have been defending Vitter. I'm all for the proposition that what adults do with their genitalia is nobody else's business, but that's exactly contrary to what Vitter and his supporters have been pushing for years. I think it would be on the whole better if prostitution were legalized and regulated, but the fact is that in pretty much all of the USA other than some counties in Nevada, it's illegal. Vitter pledged to uphold the law, but Vitter is a criminal.
Vitter's been absent on the Senate floor, and is said to be in an undisclosed location (hiding in the Cheneybunker?). One internet rumor I'm not putting any stock in at this point is that he's in the hospital after his wife really did follow through with her threat to his Senatorial Staff. Though of course Vitter's real problem is between his ears, not his legs.
Speaking of COX (Haw!) I'm supposed to get cable hooked up today. I thought I was done with ATT years ago, but they bought out my local phone company, so I'll shell out some more money and get high speed internet and transfer my phone to Cox Cable. While I'm at it, I'm finally stepping boldly into the 1980s and getting a cable tv hookup as part of the package. Broadcast tv already had more television than I cared to watch, but now Ms. Hollie and I will be able to watch "Countdown" or "The Daily Show" together rather than on YouTube.
In other news, City Council member Shelley Midura has called on District Attorney Eddie Jordan to resign. Give 'em hell, Shelley.
