Vitter's Glass House

 

hyp·o·crite Function: noun Etymology: Middle English ypocrite, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin hypocrita, from Greek hypokritēs actor, hypocrite, from hypokrinesthai Date: 13th century

1. a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion;

2. a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings.

Senator David Vitter (R-LA) has called on Senator Roland Burris (D-IL) to resign. Senator Vitter, you'll recall, refused to resign when exposed as a hooker fucker.

Despite his own refusal to resign after admitting to being a former patron of the “DC Madam”, Vitter dismissed the notion that his demands of Burris are hypocritical. “I honestly don’t know anybody who would compare these situations. They are dramatically different,” Vitter said.

David, David, David. This is not going to look good when Stormy comes lookin' for you. Once again, the greatest video ever:

Vitter: Even Though I Didn't Resign, Burris Should [Think Progress]

Comments

[actor212]

but they ARE totally different!

One involves sex and the other doesn't!

[mandt]

"---these situations. They are dramatically different," Well, that depends on whether or not you see the diaper half empty or half full.

[actor212]

Does the jaw of Vitter's wife come unhinged?

Cuz if it does, I'd like to meet her while he's away one evening...

[Dominic Ciocca, Jr.]

I see no hypocrisy here. Senator Vitter was visiting prostitutes on his own time and paying them with his own money. Why is moral turpitude damnable for the right and all sorts of abberant behavior is AOK for those who lean left, "privacy of your own bedroom", etc?. Senator Burris may have committed perjury, may have improperly bought a state position for his less than
qualified son and who knows what all. These are things that directly or indirectly affect his constituents and he has perhaps belied the trust put in him by them. Completely different from Senator Vitter's scandal. So Vitter was perfectly right to speak out. Anyway hypocrisy is Nancy Pelosi
taking Holy Communion every Sunday. Hypocrisy is President Obama running "undesirable" lobbying interests out of Washington, while giving those special interests like labor or teachers or the environment or anybody else he's buddy up with cozy and secure places at the table. Think back in your childhood when you used to pray. Focus on those times and start praying again. If you've never prayed, learn how. You'll become a better person and the world a better place if you can only pray. I enjoyed my visit here today. Best wishes, DAC in NJ

[Tata]

What Dominic has conveniently forgotten is that he's full of shit.

His list of points is pointless. His nostalgia for a time that never was is typical and ridiculous. His notion that prayer will fix our problems is laughable. I give him a 6 for sticking his landing.

[Dominic Ciocca, Jr.]

Let me clarify my points. Senator Vitter is an adulterer and I guess since his wife and God can forgive him, I can too, but I wouldn't vote to reelect anybody who was ever capable of that kind of treachery. There's no evidence, however, that Vitter is a crooked politician, whereas it looks like Senator Burris may be, so why can't Vitter properly criticize Burris? He's still a senator and it's a Senate matter. The Catholic Church believes in Life as much as it believes in the Divinity of Christ. Logically, one Truth can't be more true than any other, and the Church teaches that human life begins at conception. Nancy Pelosi has worked for and continues to support laws that, were she truly Catholic, she would find unconscionable, laws (or lack of laws) that have destroyed a multitude of the youngest human lives and in the United States also constitute genocide against the African American people. She is a hypocrite. President Obama makes things tough for so-called "special interests" but exempts organized labor, to whom he's indebted for so much campaign money and manpower. He's a hypocrite, and in so many other ways. Liberals notoriously read only those authors they know they'll agree with, but try out Coulter's "Guilty" for a look at hypocrisy.I never said prayer will solve our problems, Tata, you ill intentioned fool, I said it would make you a better person and the world a better place. Believe it if you dare. Anybody from Pat Robertson to the latest New Age swami knows it's true. Thank you though for responding to my comment, even if you did write that I was full of shit.

[Dominic Ciocca, Jr.]

One other point, Tata, I was not engaging in nostalgic reverie when I exhorted those who could to go back to their childhood when they used to pray. My own lower middle class childhood was economically secure but quite difficult in important other ways that no sane person could be nostalgic about. I'm merely trying to jog people's memories about prayer, and many people prayed when they were young then gave it up as they were indoctrinated by the secular humanist doctrine of the public schools. I went to public schools myself but managed to see through what they were serving up year after year. Best wishes to you and yours.