Dems To Vitter: Denounce Glenn Beck's Landrieu-Prostitute Analogies

The Louisiana Democratic Party, in a rather humorous and bold press release on Tuesday, called for Senator David Vitter (R-La.) to denounce conservatives who have called his fellow Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) a prostitute for her support of health care reform.

Vitter, of course, has his own sordid history with ladies of the night. So the chance to tie him to recent claims from the likes of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh that Landrieu was whoring out her health care vote was just too inviting to pass up.

Landrieu was able to secure $100 million in federal Medicaid subsidies for her state, ostensibly in exchange for agreeing to allow health care legislation to come to the floor of the Senate. Glenn Beck called the senator a "high-class prostitute ... She may be easy, but she ain't cheap."

Rush Limbaugh echoed Beck's comment, calling Landrieu "the most expensive prostitute in the history of prostitutes."

The full press release:

Today, the Louisiana Democratic Party called on U.S. Senator David Vitter to publicly denounce comments from some conservative commentators referring to Louisiana's senior Senator as a "prostitute" for securing crucial federal funding needed to fill a gap in Louisiana's budget.

"David Vitter should immediately and publicly denounce the offensive accusations conservative commentators are making about our state's senior Senator," said Louisiana Democratic Party Communications Director Natalie Naquin Harvey.

As a looming budget crisis threatens to bankrupt Louisiana's state government, Senator Mary Landrieu announced Saturday from the Senate floor that she had secured $300 million in federal funding to help make up for shortfalls in the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP), a formula used to determine the federal government's share in providing medical care to the poor and uninsured. A temporary spike in per capita income following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita could lead to a loss of $500 million in federal funding, according the Jindal Administration.

"David Vitter supported the FMAP fix, but it was Senator Landrieu who secured the much needed funds to help solve a looming budget crisis that threatens to bankrupt our state," Harvey said. "The least David Vitter can do is stand up for her when members of his own party call her a prostitute."

On his radio program yesterday, Glenn Beck referred to Senator Landrieu as a "high-class prostitute." "She may be easy, but she ain't cheap," Beck said.

Rush Limbaugh later echoed Beck's charge on his widely syndicated show, calling Louisiana's senior Senator "the most expensive prostitute in the history of prostitutes."

To date, Senator David Vitter has been silent on Beck and Limbaugh's outlandish and offensive insults of Senator Landrieu.

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Comments

[Okieborn]

10:20 PM on 11/28/2009

Thi should absolutely prove that Reid should be replaced !!

[rcmfla]

08:37 PM on 11/28/2009

Denounce prostitution.. Absolutely not! David Vitter is not only a fan of prostitutes, he's a steady customer and fan of the profession. You tell em, Dave.. Let's talk prostitution, right?! How many times, Dave? Do you have favorites? Have you ever paid Landreiu for sex? Everyone wants to know the details, Dave!

[motoGpifupleez]

03:22 PM on 11/28/2009

Good luck with that. Republicans don't denounce. They just demand that OTHERS denounce.

[LittleMittens]

03:00 AM on 11/28/2009

if Mary is making rush/beck frothy, she must be doing something right

[Anonani]

08:24 AM on 11/28/2009

Amen.

[ifitwereme]

03:18 AM on 11/29/2009

she's acting for the greater good, this will always make them frothy.

[quiviran]

08:44 PM on 11/27/2009

Make that $299,999,998. Haven't been keeping up with the bidding.

[quiviran]

08:43 PM on 11/27/2009

Vitter should know one when he sees one, but I suspect $100 million is about $99,999,998 above his price range.

[MakeAWish]

07:59 PM on 11/27/2009

Every state who allowed this puny bill to come to a vote should also demand $100 million dollars.

[MakeAWish]

07:56 PM on 11/27/2009

What does that make Reid the Senator from Nevada who paid the $100 million?

[Anonani]

08:24 AM on 11/28/2009

A brilliant tactician.

[doodlefarbe]

04:49 PM on 11/28/2009

Just needs to go from "Harry" to "John".

[Anonani]

05:59 PM on 11/27/2009

I am still waiting to hear a collective roar from the women in the Congress.

[Gidster]

11:43 PM on 11/27/2009

Agreed!

There was far more outrage ginned up when the Right falsely said the "Lipstick on a pig" line was a swipe at Palin....

[Chanrazig]

07:11 AM on 11/28/2009

I agree..

[IWantTofu]

05:38 PM on 11/27/2009

I'm afraid that I must defer to Vitter's experience and judgement in the area in his comparing Mary Landrieu to a prostitute. He would be the one to know.

[doodlefarbe]

04:51 PM on 11/28/2009

Geeze, can you read? It wasn't Vitter, it was limbaugh and beck. What makes it a great play by the LA DNC is Vitter's former "play time" with fantasy call girls.

[ldmason45]

12:15 PM on 11/27/2009

And why should Vitter or anyone else step up to defend poor Mary's honor ? She's the one who put herself in that position. The health care bill she opposed wasn't changed or the policy's she disagreed with weren't re-written. The only thing that changed was she was offered $300 million to buy her vote. So now the state of Louisiana and Nevada will have their health insurance paid for by the rest of America. Meanwhile, the rest of the states will be required to pay out billions more taxpayer dollars of their budgets on the expanded "Medicaid for All". This is already breaking the states. Her constituents are very upset with her. She's the one who sold her integrity and principles to the highest bidder. I have a feeling that her Thanksgiving Holiday isn't going to be verry happy. The dems need to quit whinning and reign in their loud mouthed, prostitute calling fool (Grayson). Again, why is it Vitter's job to defend Landrieu's pathetic decisions?

[IcedTee63]

02:36 PM on 11/27/2009

I'm guessing they should because it would be the right thing to do!!

[careygranite]

04:40 PM on 11/28/2009

I'm guessing your parents had poor parenting skills.

[minerva117]

11:07 AM on 11/27/2009

Wait a doggone minute!!! Aren't these the same people who were hyperventilating over a comment Alan Grayson made about a K Street lobbyist whom he referred to as a 'K Street whore'. As usual for the Repugs, they can dish it out, but they can't take it!!

[wyldthings]

12:07 AM on 11/27/2009

So if it cost just 300 million for her vote. What will it be worth to Senator Lieberman for the 60th vote!

[vandegrasse]

11:59 PM on 11/26/2009

If she were whoring for the rich she'd be called an entrepreneur or capitalist. But procuring money for the poor makes you a prostitute. Weird country we live in!

[ifitwereme]

03:21 AM on 11/29/2009

replace rich with right and poor with left and let the comedy ensue

[vandegrasse]

11:58 PM on 11/26/2009

Rush would be a prostitute if he weren't so phat!

[doodlefarbe]

04:53 PM on 11/28/2009

He is anyway.