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...I really think David Vitter is the Worst Person in the World.
Adding: have you noticed that every homunculus-esque thing surrounding Vitter has to do with women? From the prostitutes all the way down to this. What's up with that?
Did we really think he would do otherwise? Our senior senator joins David Vitter in that vote, who, one hopes, paid women fairly in his personal endeavors.
So, there are several more breathtakingly hypocritical statements from Sununu's Congressional past I am looking forward to sharing here, but for tonight instead I found something quite interesting in the Times-Picayune today (h/t JLFinch):
The only question left is when: When will Sen. David Vitter leave office? He has no choice but to do so.
This is not my judgment. This is the judgment of Vitter himself.
When he was a state representative and President Clinton was in the throes of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Vitter called on his skills as a practicing attorney and adjunct professor of law to opine on what sort of activity would render a leader unfit to govern. His judgment was severe.
... "The writings of the Founding Fathers are very instructive on this issue," Vitter wrote in response. "They are not cast in terms of political effectiveness at all but in terms of right and wrong -- moral fitness.
"Hamilton writes in the Federalists Papers (No. 65) that impeachable offenses are those that 'proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust,' " Vitter continued.
Is there some sort of Clinton Impeachment Talking Point Binder for wannabe Republican Senators? Here's Representative John E. Sununu in 1998:
The constitutional standard for impeachment of `high crimes and misdemeanors' is a broad one by design. In the Federalist Papers, it is described in greatest detail by Alexander Hamilton, writing that `The subject of [impeachments] jurisdictions are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.' Protecting the integrity of government and ensuring accountability of public officials were of paramount concern.
It's funny. Paying for sex strikes me as "misconduct" (some might even say "illegal"), but public man Vitter hasn't resigned and public man Sununu hasn't called for his impeachment.
