David Vitter is Thinking About Your Granddaughter's Vagina
In these days of war and economic collapse it's easy to lose sight of what's really important: American Indians in the future getting abortions.
That's why the United States Senate is lucky to have farsighted men like Louisiana's David Vitter. To think about the long-range stuff. Not just what we can tell women to do with their bodies today, but what we can tell the women of tomorrow to do forever.
(Jesus, on the other hand, said "take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself." Which is why you should never take investment advice from Jesus.)
It's been thirty years since congress barred the use of federal money for abortions, and 25 years since the last American Indian woman had access to an abortion through a doctor provided by Indian Health Services. So you might think: Problem solved. Let's move on. And get drugs out of baseball.
But you'd be wrong.
You couldn't get an abortion, and you can't get an abortion, but what about the knocked-up Choctaw of 2250? Who's going to make sure they do the right thing?
David Vitter will. He just did. Tuesday. With an amendment to the Indian Health Care Improvement Act. And it passed, 52-42.
It's a proud day. Because American Indians have been getting a free ride for too long. Or, you know, they might, in one of an infinite number of improbable but none-the-less possible futures. If we didn't do something now.
Think of it like entitlement reform. Crossed with a Christian bookstore time travel adventure, where Planned Parenthood takes over, and sends killer robots to change the past.
Here's Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America, explaining why we needed a new law:
While this policy of not funding abortions through IHS has been in effect for 25 years, the Vitter amendment guarantees that future administrations don't circumvent Congress and change this policy.
"My amendment codifies a longstanding policy that prohibits the use of federal dollars for abortions," said Senator Vitter. To a call girl named Candie Boxxx.
I'm trying to think if anything's happened in Louisiana in the last couple of years that might be a bigger problem.
Of course it's all just pandering and magical thinking. David Vitter could attach an anti-abortion amendment to National Potato Day. What I admired about Tuesday was that he attached an anti-abortion amendment to funding a program that was already anti-abortion.
There's being a single-issue politician, and then there's simply being an ass.
Between this, the adultery, the prostitutes and the diapers, I've almost lost all my respect for the guy.
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Because RightWing Fascist Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds. Thanks, Mr. Kelly. Great Article.
I'll wager every state had, has, or will have a looney like Vitter. Vitter has to regain his Jesus-cred. Picking on Native Americans is much easier than taking on say, African-Americans or Latinos. If he didn't do this, a primary challenger would be likely. He likes being a senator with all the perks and privilages. Will the rest of senate follow him? There lies the question.
Chris: Could this be his way of believing that he is atoning for his adultery? If so I bet God in Heaven shares your opinion that the guy is a complete ass.
Vitter's continued obsession with all things vagina is strange. Vitter and Vagina seem to come up in the same sentence way too often. I for one am no longer comfortable with the Vitter/Vagina connection (if you get my drift). You would think Mrs Vitter would start wondering why her husband can't stop think about other women's vagina parts. But she seems OK with it. Strange again.
One could look at it this way...
Finally! A Republican that is not thinking about another man's Jack and the Twins! A break through. A Republican that can't get his mind off the vagina! Oh holy day. The Republican party is making its way back to the moral high ground!
One vagina at a time.
Was there an amendment to provide diapers till 2250?
Good ol' Vitter! He and Larry Craig et al are proof that a republican need not fear his abhorations or peccadillos derailing his political train. Sometimes a picture does actually say more than words so here goes:
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more at:
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We will be laughed off the pages of history, what an embarrassment.
Some still claim the dark ages are over.
Now I understand why Vitter is obsessive about keeping Indian women from aborting unwanted babies from now until the end of time.
More babies, more diapers.
But...did anyone notice that Vitter voted "nay" against the BILL? Stick an amendment in that gets approved by a slight majority, and then vote AGAINST the entire bill? What's the logic in that, aside from being a single-issue lawmaker?
First of all, you can't impeach a senator.
Secondly, whether or not the people of Louisiana are stupid is questionable. But David Vitter not only graduated from Harvard, but was a Rhodes Scholar. He's not stupid.
Then he's psychotic?
He's certainly not too tightly wrapped though is he?
Sorry upenbenm but you can impeach ANY official, elected or not in the US government..
So David Vitter, graduate of Harvard and Rhodes Scholar, is therefore WILLINGLY ignorant of the pressing issues of the day.
And this is an improvement over stupid how?
Randy
Anybody ever noticed how it seems to be mostly the draft-dodging chickenhawks who ALWAYS wear their little lapel flags and are obsessed with everone else who don't choose to wear theirs? Guys like Rush Limbaugh, Deferment Dick Cheney, Sean Hannity, Wolfie, Richard Perle, Bush Baby, Newt Gingrich, Borin' Orrin Hatch, The Hammer, etc.?
I wore one out of respect for a couple of years following the 911 attack but refuse to wear one since the Iraq invasion.
I recently came across a quote from Sinclair Lewis in 1925.
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag carrying a cross."
This quote resonates with me as to what we might become if the Vitters (and the Bush crowd) remain in power.
Just look at the recent 'unpatriotic' slam at Obama for not wearing his lapel flag. So the REAL patriots are W and Cheney and their followers who are never seen in public without theirs!
You're right about the Sinclair Lewis quote, but while he did warn us of Fascism, the quote isn't terribly prescient. Flags with crosses are the hallmark in any majority christian fascist movement. Spain, Italy and Germany all played nationalism, and christianity (spec. Catholocism) to the hilt.
Now it is the Star Spangled Banner, and the Christian coalition.
Notice however the cries of Islamo-fascism, Liberal-fascism, etc. which tend to dilute the term fascism. The whole overuse of the term fascist seems contrived to dissemble. While Liberals may be overbearing, Communist totalitarian, and Islamic fundamentalists, intolerant and totalitarian, none of them are fascists.
They lack the nationalism. There are many enemies of democracy to look out for, but the fascists are enemies within the walls.
Senator David Vitter, Senator John Cornyn, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Senator Ted Stevens what a miserable rogues gallery. As great noteworthy senators go, this "group" has to represent the bottom of the barrel.
And why do we find ourselves in our present precarious predicament? (See above for a starting point)
Mindless boobs that like to call themselves, "United States Senators", and don't have an iota of a clue what that office entails other than self promotion and selling out their constituences to the highest bidders.
Boy oh boy, could we ever use a Senator Wellstone, the real deal. R.I.P., Senator Paul !
(Jesus, on the other hand, said "take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself." Which is why you should never take investment advice from Jesus.)
LOL!
I love it when the Bible Belt States cry "STATE'S RIGHT'S" with regard to a woman's right to chose but then turn around and beg the foul Blue States for their Tax handouts!
If you really want states' rights when it comes to abortion red-states then you have to forego the 70% to 80% of your yearly federal budgets that is donated to you by the awful Blue States.
Deal?
Yeah, we thought so.
State's rights???
Yeah, sure.... ask any medical marijuana
patient about state's rights.. what a crock.... the right wing is the K2 of
blatant hypocrisy..
I THOUGHT VITTER WAS OUT OF CONGRESS...
Nah - he's still there. The party of "family values" accepted his lame apology and decided it was okay for him to boink a prostitute - because she was the opposite sex. Unlike say, Larry Craig.
Oops! He's still there too.
Too bad we cannot insert an amendment onto this bill that if an American Indian woman living on a reservation (code for concentration camp) wants and abortion, and she can't get one because of this assclown's amendment or the other part of the law either - that they (all the people who voted for the anti-abortion thing) will be held personally and financially responsible to pay for the health care, food, clothes, education and any other needs of this child and her/his immediate family for the next 18 years!
Since the poverty rate on most reservations hovers in the 70-80% bracket, most reservations do not have any health care available in the local vicinity, the schools are absolute disasters, Indian women are raped by white outsiders at a rate almost triple the national (of the ones that get reported anyway) and the perpetrators are never prosecuted by the white outside law enforcement while the Indian police are forbidden from going 'off the res' to arrest anyone, and as a result of all this crap, the alcoholism and drug abuse rates are very high - I can see just a couple of reasons here why someone might feel they did not have the resources to adequately care for a child.
How about it guys? ready to pony up your wallets to fund these kids?
Didn't think so....
There's the crackpot, Vitter, and the enablers of crackpots, the 52 who voted for the stupid thing. Whose worse? A self-serving corrupt ass who puts forth such a bill or the self-serving politicians who vote for it?
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