Vitter Fights Family Planning Money In Omnibus
Vitter is offering an amendment to the omnibus, forbidding the distribution of any public money to Planned Parenthood. Indeed, the Washington Post points out that Vitter has offered dozens of amendments on social-conservatives issues.
It has to be noted, of course, that Vitter is facing potential primary challenges from a leading Christian-right activist, a former Congressman, and a porn star. (That's three different people, by the way, not one person matching all three descriptions.) As such, he has every reason to send social conservatives a strong message that he's getting things done for them.
Late Update: It turns out that former Rep. John Cooksey said yesterday that he won't challenge Vitter. So we're down to just the Christian Right activist and the porn star -- that is, two people.
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So were Vitter's hookers not using contraception?
March 4, 2009 3:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Vitter's hookers had no need for contraceptives as Diaper Dave never removed his Pampers®.
March 4, 2009 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, the key word is diaper. If family planning is funded, then more babies will be born, and then Vitter will have a more readily available supply of diapers - he likes them big ol man diapers.
March 4, 2009 9:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Your front page title (Angling for Bareback?) is crude, tasteless, and not even very clever. Please consider changing. You're a smart, witty man, Josh; you can do better.
March 4, 2009 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, I thought it was quite ironically appropriate.
Can't wait to show it to my husband.
March 4, 2009 4:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just as clarification: The former congressman you allude to (Cooksey) said yesterday he would NOT challenge Vitter.
March 4, 2009 3:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks.
March 4, 2009 4:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
What about Stormy?
March 5, 2009 2:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm still pulling for her.
March 5, 2009 7:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Vitter is a sorry individual. I'm not sure if anyone has ever seen this guy on a panel asking someone questions. He repeats the most obvious GOP talking points and presents them in his questioning as though they are spontaneous thoughts.
I can't believe people voted this guy into the Senate. Heck I'm dumb but next to this guy, I sound like a genius.
March 4, 2009 3:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Vitter really needs to get in front of this Family Planning thing by offering up some advocacy. His cause could be: Cloth Diapers Are Better!
March 4, 2009 4:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Another southern, conservative, Republican, adulterous, lying, super-Christian, hypocrite pervert.
What a suprise.
March 4, 2009 4:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well ... just say NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! didn't work for DiaperMan or for Bristol-Meyer-Squib Palin. So I think family planning belongs.
March 4, 2009 4:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Perfect front page headline for this article, Josh.
"Angling for Bareback". Just perfect. Don't ever change, brother, and don't let the prudes get you down.
March 4, 2009 4:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
If there is anyone that needs to be out of the Senate after 2010 it's Vitter. I don't know if his scandal has been too far in people's minds though.
March 4, 2009 4:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, the wonders of Senate decorum, that someone can't stand up in the chamber and ask why anyone should take seriously the sexual moralizing of an admitted frequenter of whores.
March 4, 2009 4:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
With you on this!
March 4, 2009 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have hopes that Franken could rise to your challenge.
March 4, 2009 5:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hello Diaper-Boy!
March 4, 2009 4:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Very funny Eric!
But it all still leaves a nagging question -- was "family planning" employed during Vitter's play dates with prostitutes?
March 4, 2009 4:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ok, TPM, any comment on this from the Stormy Daniels camp? What's there position. Let's get the rebuttal out there from one of his primary challengers. Equal airtime and all. Go Stormy!
March 4, 2009 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
I understand she has quite a number of positions.
March 4, 2009 5:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's an old saw, but still true: If men got pregnant, there would be no restrictions on birth control.
March 4, 2009 4:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Okay, I'll go along with crude and tasteless in a nit-picky sort of way, but say it's not clever is just wrong. I'm mean unless the boss had the "take" sign on... you had to tag it!
March 4, 2009 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Given the nature of Vitter's conservative base, I think saddlebacking (see, e.g., http://www.saddlebacking.com/) may be more along the lines of what he has in mind.
March 4, 2009 5:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
The use of birth control is a personal preference. Some people are not allowed to use it because it is a religious principle for them. Their religious principle should have no power to keep the rest of to make the choice of using it. Period. The majority of Catholics I know use birth control even though their church forbids it. Why should that fight enter my Lutheran spiritual life at all?
March 4, 2009 5:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
I expect he'll get the all important "Depends" endorsement.
March 4, 2009 5:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dont'be bitter, Vitter!
WWRD - What Would Rush Do?
March 4, 2009 5:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does that include government money for diapers?
March 4, 2009 6:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Someone needs to ask him what he plans to do to help the unwed mothers who got that way because they had no access to contraception. There is an old Forrester Sisters song about a girl with her baby in Virginia. She was in the churchyard "comforting her child" while her lover was inside "knowing God had forgiven him." This sort of sums up the Southern attitude toward unwed pregnancy, it's the woman's problem, not the man's.
By the way, at the end of the song "in the deep green grass that lies outside of town, another boy lays his girl down"
March 4, 2009 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, that is sooo sad. That really is very, very sad. Unfortunately, you are correct about attitudes. The problem for the republicans, which is a good thing, is that you can't win elections only carrying the confederacy. Not gonna happen. See you later 21st century whigs.
March 4, 2009 7:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
We should also not forget that Vitter used a condom during his assignations AND TOOK IT WITH HIM AFTERWARDS> http://www.stinque.com/2009/03/04/vitter-goes-bareback/
Hypocritical bible-thumping snakehandler.
March 4, 2009 7:15 PM | Reply | Permalink