A Spork in the Drawer

If It's Election Season...

...it's time for the Republicans to play the bigot card.

The proposed Amendment XXVIII to the Constitution:

Section 1. This article may be cited as the `Marriage Protection Amendment'.

Section 2. Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any State, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman.

While it's not going to even get out of Congress it's worth mentioning because of two co-sponsors: "Diaper Dave" Vitter and Larry "Wide Stance" Craig.

GOP hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Meanwhile in a likely effort to help St. John's flailing campaign the great state of Arizona is putting a ballot initiative up for a vote that would ban marriage amongst Teh Gaiz. This would be the same initiative that was voted down in '06. Try, try again, I suppose.

See, if the Republican Party had a platform that most people could support they wouldn't need to engage in such silliness.

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Well Then

Sen. Larry Craig (R-Wide Stance) lends his support to Sen. David Vitter (R-Pampers).

The sheer number of possible quips has shut down my brain.

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Random Thought

Toe Tappin' Larry Craig and Diaper Dave Vitter are still respected members of the Senate.

Why is that?

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Fun!

Former (Current?) Sen. Larry Craig (R-Wide Stance) can't decide if he's in or out. It appears that none other than Snarlin' Arlen has talked him in to reconsidering.

Meanwhile, via David Kurtz, in the case of Diaper Dave Vitter (R-Huggies), "DC Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey might be claiming that she'll have to divulge national security secrets to defend herself.

Say what you will but sometimes the Republicans provide terrific entertainment.

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It's About Hypocrisy

I like EJ Dionne. He usually has a pretty solid take on things and he seems to be a decent liberal. And he seems to be a genuinely nice chap. Sometimes, though, he's too nice:

But a big part of me is rooting for Vitter to survive because I so want to return to a time when we -- that "we" includes the media -- chose to pay little attention to the extracurricular sexual activities of our politicians. The magnitude of our public problems does not afford us the luxury of indulging in crusades about politicians' private lives, even those involving a high degree of hypocrisy.

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But if we are to get out of this habit of destroying the distinctions between public and private lives, liberals need to give the conservative hypocrites a break.

This is where I get off of the bus. Dionne has it exactly backwards. Here's how that last sentence should read: "But if we are to get out of this habit of destroying the distinctions between public and private lives, rightwingers need to stop trying to legislate our private lives."

Now, I don't give a damn what consenting adults to with (or more to the point, to) each other in the bedroom or the kitchen or a secluded spot in the woods...well, you get my point. Hell, they can even wear diapers for all I care. But as long as the "moralists" insist on telling us how to live our private lives their private lives are fair game.

The onus is on the David Vitters of the country, not the liberals who expose their hypocrisy.

Finally, via dangerblond, check out this hilarious video by Clay.

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Whoops!

It looks like fundie Repub David Vitter (R-Cathouse) has been an even naughtier boy than admitted:

U.S. Senator David Vitter visited a Canal Street brothel several times beginning in the mid-1990s, paying $300 per hour for services at the bordello after he met the madam at a fishing rodeo that included prostitutes and other politicians, according to Jeanette Maier, the "Canal Street Madam" whose operation was shut down by a federal investigators in 2001.

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"I'm not out to ruin a marriage, I'm out to save a man," Maier said. "I want his wife to know he's a good man, I want his children to know he's a good father. If he had sex out of wedlock, so what? At least he stayed with his children."

Granted, Maier is writing a book and her own lawyer is surprised at the allegation but Davey should know that once you lie down with Les Belles de nuit these things can happen.

Ahhh, I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning!

[Via Aravosis.]

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ADDED: Oh, my.

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