Like I Care (That I Was Wrong)

UPDATED: You know what? I was wrong. This is a big and important story. Look at what I found on what Senator Vitter's wife said in 2000:

Vitter won a special election to Louisiana's 1st Congressional District in 1999, succeeding Republican Congressman Bob Livingston, who resigned after an adultery scandal. Vitter said about Livingston's decision to resign, "It's obviously a tremendous loss for the state.... I think Livingston's stepping down makes a very powerful argument that Clinton should resign as well and move beyond this mess", referring to the Monica Lewinsky scandal of President Bill Clinton. In 2000, his wife, Wendy Vitter, commenting on the same scandal, "I'm a lot more like Lorena Bobbitt than Hillary. If he [Vitter] does something like that, I'm walking away with one thing, and it's not alimony, trust me", referring to the incident of Lorena Bobbitt severing the penis of her husband and to Clinton's wife, Hillary Clinton.

Forget what I said below. What I denied overpowered me. Thank you for pointing out my transgressions, people!

SECOND UPDATE: Now, see? The scandal has snared one on our side - and me, too...
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A Louisiana Senator had (and hopefully still has) male sexual feelings, and he expressed them with a prostitute. Did he pick up drug addicted girls on the streets? Did he rape an acquaintance? No, he went to a $300 an hour brothel.

Well, aside from the question of how prostitution treats women, and the issues within his marriage, who fucking cares? Not me. I'm relieved to find out that guys like this have normal sexual feelings. It's his problem and his wife's, not mine. I don't know, maybe they should go to the brothel together - spice things up a little. I'm also relieved to find out that Ted Haggard is a human being, too. If he wasn't so ashamed of his true self he would not have been living a double life. What you deny overpowers you.

This was "a very serious sin in my past," says Senator Vitter of the prostitution. You know what? I can think of a lot more serious things. Like closing libraries.

Like the pyramid scheme that is our health care system.

Like kids without any health care coverage. Homeless kids. Abused kids.

Like veterans who can't get adequate treatment, or soldiers who come back from Iraq and end up living on welfare.

Sins like that. When are Americans going to grow up about sex?

Well, at least we're not Iran, where a man was stoned to death for adultery after being imprisoned for 11 years.

Mr. President, No One Believes You Anymore

Keith Olbermann has yet another special comment: The President Who Cried Wolf.

Finally, the Democrats are standing up. But significantly, Joe Scarborough also calls George W. Bush's speech last night "a political disaster." Joe Klein, interviewed on Scarborough Country tonight, was shaking his head in disbelief. As was Joe S. He's no liberal. That pretty much says it all.

Last night's speech by President Bush was not really about salvaging Iraq, but invading Iran. Sen. Chuck Hagel calls Bush's surge plan speech "dangerous... The worst foreign policy blunder since Vietnam." That it is. That it is, sir. Thank you.

However, Pat Buchanan replied, "I disagree with Chuck... Invading Iraq was the worst foreign policy blunder." It is well known that Mr. Buchanan has no stomach for foreign adventures, possibly even World War II, but I certainly agree with him here.

Now comes news that American troops have raided an Iranian consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil and detained five people. Am I not correct in understanding that a nation's consulate is that nation's soil? So, we are now on Iranian soil?

This is madness!