Chutzpah Defined: Vitter and Craig Co-Sponsor Marriage Amendment

OK, so it's not news that politicians are hypocrites. But, my goodness. This just takes the hypocritical cake. As reported by PageOneQ.com, two infamous senators have signed on to the bill of Mississippi Republican Sen. Roger Wicker to establish a constitutional amendment codifying marriage as between a man and a woman.

You probably only need two guesses as to which two senators announced they were co-sponsoring the bill today -- David "John" Vitter and Larry "Wide Stance" Craig. The actual wording of the amendment and the status of Vitter and Craig as co-sponsors can be seen here.

I mean, really now. How much further down the rabbit hole can we go? A man who pleaded guilty to lewd conduct in propositioning an undercover police officer for anonymous sex in a bathroom, and a man who allegedly has a diaper fetish exerting their moral authority over the rest of us. How can it have come to this?

Sure, we know that the moral high ground was ceded by the far right a long time ago. It all depends just how far back you want to go. The list of disgraced fundamentalist zealots reads like a Who's Who of giddy peccadilloes: Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, Ted Haggard and on and on. But, generally speaking, once they've been outed as self-loathing perverts, they try not to come down on the rest of us anymore.

Perhaps we should send a message to Vitter and Craig, because obviously, it hasn't hit them yet: You. Do. Not. Get. To. Tell. Us. How. To. Live. Any. More. You lost the right to moralize about the same time you strapped on a pair of adult diapers and/or opened your stance a little too wide. People who moralize lead first by example. You think Gandhi ever hooked up in a men's room?

Jesus, I'm almost embarrassed for them. This liberal blogging thing just isn't fun anymore. Where are the demons? Where are the people you look at and say, "Yes, yes. That man. He is evil incarnate." It seems like the opposition these days consists of little more than sweaty-palmed, mouth-breathing sex addicts or else unapologetic morons whose chief pet peeve in the world appears to be anyone more intelligent than algae.

Ah well. HuffPost's got a story on up right now that links to an interview with Grover Norquist in which the man calls Barack Obama, "John Kerry with a tan." I guess that's kind of evil. But more and more, it's as though the left has become Sherlock Holmes without a Moriarty. I mean, sure I laughed when I read that list of co-sponsors, but it was the sort of laugh I doled out the 212th time I saw Dave Chappelle's Killin' Them Softly. It's just getting too easy.

Comments

[jvarga]

I fully expected clicking on this headline would bring me to 23/6 not the political section.

[tjntn]

ROTFLMAO

[Nommo]

No one in the US is more upset by this newsflash than Mel Brooks. It probably would've been a throw away for him, anyway.

[bigfated]

Standing out head and shoulders above their sleazy comrades---(GOP STYLE, OF COURSE)---are Vitter The Dirty Diaper Boy.....and Craig of The Wide Stance......still telling the rest of us how to conduct our lives. What stinking hypocrites.
Thank God that these vermin are about to be handed their lunch....leaving them to seek jobs in the porn industry. I'm sure they'll both do well. After all....they are perverts!

[chefrasta]

You just cant make this stuff up LOL

[jp916]

Truly despicable people doing truly despicable things...another day at the office for the Republicans.

[curmudgeon3]

Already posted by this writer on another site:

This bill must be designed to protect Larry Craig"s marriage. After all, if gay marriage were legalized, and Craig has a gay lover, he could pressure Craig to divorce his wife and marry him. In other words, it would be "put up or shut up" time. We couldn"t have that, now could we?

Remember, the safety of our country depends upon the passage of this bill. Just recall the dire warnings from the Christian Reich about this, including the pronouncement that Hurricane Katrina was New Orleans" punishment for allowing a gay event to occur in the city (Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri, with the recent flooding, must have committed similar egregious sins as well).

And consider the following news flash from three years ago, "On July 20, 2005, Canada became the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide with the approval of the Civil Marriage Act." Maybe nature hasn"t yet unleashed their fury on that country, but if the christofascists are correct, their time is coming.

Perhaps Vitter signed on just to add some "credibility" to the bill?

Even Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert couldn"t make up something this outrageously funny.

Anyone have any info regarding other Senators jumping on the bandwagon or rather, going into the bathroom stall with Craig & Vitter on this farce?