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David Vitter

Vitter Slapped With Prostitution Complaint

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

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Watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility (CREW) has filed a bar complaint with the Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel against Sen. David Vitte...

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Time to Get Real About the ACORN "Controversy"--and Republican Double Standards

Robert Creamer | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kbr, Aig, Mark Sanford, Acorn, John Ensign, Voter Registration, Boeing, Blackwater, Mickey Mouse, Breaking News, Citicorp, Community Organizing, Republicans, Newt Gingrich, Haliburton, David Vitter, Politics News
Robert Creamer

The Right wing has always hated ACORN. Partially that's because the organization has been so effective at allowing poor people to vote. The Right hates it when poor people vote.

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David Vitter's Reelection Chances Helped By Obama

New York Times | CAMPBELL ROBERTSON | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: David Vitter Reelection, Vitter Obama, Barack Obama, David Vitter 2010, David Vitter, Politics News

Mere survival was never the issue. Those familiar with Louisiana and its Republican senator, David Vitter, knew he would survive the summer of 2007, a...

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Remember Gay People?

Jamie Kilstein | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rights, Religion, Mark Sanford, Contractors, Atheist, Rush Limbaugh, Barack, Prop 8, Kilstein, Obama, Jamie, Gay, Newt Gingrich, David Vitter, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Jamie Kilstein

We claim to be the freest, and the best, yet all of our citizens do not have equal rights. Tell the couple who have been together for 15 years that can't adopt a child that we live in the best country in the world.

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Russel Honore Dismisses Talk Of Senate Run Against Vitter

CNN | Matt Smith | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russel Honore, Hurricane Katrina, Republican Party, David Vitter, Louisiana Senate Race, 2010 Senate, Politics News

The general who led military relief efforts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina is denying a report that he may challenge Louisiana Sen. David Vitt...

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Andrew Reinbach | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michele Bachmann, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Right Wing, Right Wing Extremeism, Republican Party, Health Care, David Vitter, Politics News
Andrew Reinbach

At a rally, Michele Bachmann and David Vitter said that if states don't like the final health care bill, they just shouldn't enforce it. They claim the 10th Amendment backs them up.

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David Vitter Had a Lousy Week

Senate Guru | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2010 Senate, Louisiana, La-Sen, Prescription Drugs, Health Care Reform, Canada, David Vitter, Ethics Violation, Politics News
Senate Guru

David Vitter does seem to have a recurring problem resisting temptations that cross ethical and legal boundaries, doesn't he?

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Does John Ensign Think David Vitter Should Resign?

Senate Guru | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nevada, John Ensign, Louisiana, La-Sen, Nv-Sen, Republican Hypocrisy, Prostitutes, David Vitter, Marital Infidelity, Politics News
Senate Guru

According to his own explicit standard, Republican Senator John Ensign must think that Republican Senator David Vitter should resign.

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David Vitter Is the Senate's Biggest Coward

Senate Guru | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2010 Senate, Teabaggers, Louisiana, Scandal, Prostitutes, David Vitter, La-Sen, Senate Races, Politics News
Senate Guru

David Vitter has not answered to his constituents or to the law for his criminal acts, his dishonesty, his hypocrisy, or his shudder-inducing cowardice.

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Colbert Takes On Joe Sestak For "Better Know A District" (VIDEO)

Posted 09.06.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Arlen Specter, Stephen Colbert, 2010 Midterms, Video, The Colbert Report, 2012 Election, 2010 Elections, Jack Conway, Congressman Joe Sestak, Jim Bunny, Colbert 2010 Midterms, Comedy News, David Vitter, Comedy, Better Know a District, Joe Sestak, Comedy News

Colbert sat down with Congressman Joe Sestak to discuss his race against Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter on Wednesday night. He also ruminated abo...

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Vitter Defends South, Values Against "Wishy Washy" Voinovich

The Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Serious Sin Vitter, Ohio, Conservative Values, Republican Party, Stormy Daniels, Louisiana, Richard Lugar, Conservatives, Voinovivh, Gun Rights, David Vitter, Vitter, Jim Demint, Republicans, Politics News

Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) on Wednesday fired back at a fellow Republican senator who declared southern conservatives the party's biggest problem. Sen...

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Animals on the Hill, and in The Hill

Michael Markarian | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike Doyle, The Hill, Animal Welfare, David Scott, Ginnifer Goodwin, Agriculture, Randy Neugebauer, Animals, Mary Landrieu, David Vitter, Jean Schmidt, Jim Moran, Elton Gallegly, Animal Rights, Big Ag, Food Inc., Fast Food Nation, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Politics News
Michael Markarian

The lawmakers doing the bidding for Big Agribusiness simply don't get that the American public wants to see all animals treated humanely, including animals raised for food.

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La. Dems Respond To Vitter's 'LuvFest' Ad: Our 'LuvFests' Are Legal, Unlike Yours

Talking Points Memo | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Luvfest Ad, Vitter Serious Sin, Louisiana, David Vitter, Charlie Melancon, Vitter, Louisiana Democratic Party, Senator David Vitter, Politics News

Check out this statement we just got from the Louisiana Democratic Party, responding to Republican Sen. David Vitter's recent Web ad going after his p...

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David Vitter's "Serious Sin": GOP Eyes Fate Senator In Louisiana

AP | KEVIN McGILL and BEN EVANS | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

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NEW ORLEANS — Before South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's romantic disappearance in Argentina and Nevada Sen. John Ensign's fling with a campaign ...

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Hypocrisy in High Places

Ruth Bettelheim | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Mark Foley, Mark Sanford, Ted Haggard, Rob Livingston, Hypocrisy, Larry Craig, Newt Gingrich, Sexual Misconduct, Henry Hyde, John Ensign, Jimmy Swaggart, Family Values, Chip Pickering, David Vitter, Sexual Infidelity, Politics News
Ruth Bettelheim

When we repress important needs and desires so severely that we are unable to accept them as a part of ourselves, we give up the possibility of a controlled, thoughtful response to them.

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Lots of Smoke, Little Fire

Shawn Healy | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Evan Bayh, Jay Rockefeller, First Amendment, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Flag Desecration, Harry Reid, David Vitter, Politics News
Shawn Healy

Our elected officials have decided to put national health care and cap and trade legislation on hold to diminish the 45 words of the First Amendment via a flag desecration amendment.

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Ensign Scandal Reminds Us of the Double Standard Placed on Gays and Lesbians

Rupert Russell | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Homosexuality, Gay Rights, John Ensign, Eliot Spitzer Prostitution, Hypocrisy, Bribery, Scandal, Defense of Marriage Act, Privacy, Civil Rights, David Vitter, Eliot Spitzer, Gay Marriage, Republicans, Marriage Equality, Politics News
Rupert Russell

My issue here is not that we do not prosecute our politicians adequately but the double standard that is placed on heterosexual and homosexual relationships.

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The Art of Adultery

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Sanford, Adultery, John Ensign, Silvio Berlusconi, Eliot Spitzer, David Vitter, Politics News
Christopher Brauchli

It is time to review the rules for confessions of infidelity by public figures.

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The Republican Summer Olympics of 2009

Gary Cohan | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Mark Sanford, Ted Stevens, Jack Abramoff, Ann Coulter, Olympics, Lobbyists, Blue States, Larry Craig, Eliot Spitzer, Dick Cheney, Adultery, Condoleezza Rice, John Edwards, Michael Savage, Gop, Newt Gingrich, Manchurian Candidate, Constitution, Republican Party, Bob Ney, Randy "Duke" Cunningham, Jim McGreevey, Mark Foley, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Social Conservatives, Ted Haggard, Rush Limbaugh, Lobbying, Scandal, Barack Obama, Red States, Homosexuality, John Ensign, Sean Hannity, Oxycontin, Neocons, Hypocrisy, Homophobia, New York Times, Neoconservatives, Alberto Gonzales, Bill O'Reilly, David Vitter, Conspiracy, Contract With America, Prostitution, Mail-Fraud, Big Tent, Tax Evasion, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Tom Delay, Teenage Pregnancy, Divorce, Internet Porn, Fox News, Phil Gramm, Hal Turner, Al Gore, Summer Olympics, Pilonidal Cyst, Vietnam Draft-Dodger, Draft-Dodging, Vietnam War, Politics News
Gary Cohan

Republicans' private embraces are often in complete contradistinction with their own oft-trumpeted, Biblically-mandated "moral" guidelines for the rest of us.

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Sam Stein

Louisiana Democrats Use Ensign Affair To Go After Vitter

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ensign Affair, John Ensign, Vitter GOP, Louisiana Democrats, Vitter Affair, David Vitter, Politics News

Citing Sen. John Ensign's resignation from his GOP leadership position after copping to an extramarital affair, Democrats are now calling on David Vit...

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Sam Stein

Ensign Whacked Clinton For His Infidelities, Called Them "Embarrassing" For Country

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Monica Lewinsky, Ensign Lewinsky, Ensign Clinton, John Ensign, David Vitter, John Ensign Nevada, Clinton Affair, Ensign Affair, Politics News

Sen. John Ensign's admission late Tuesday that he had an extramarital affair with a campaign staffer over the course of nine months doesn't seem likel...

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Sam Stein and Arthur Delaney

TARP Repayments Becoming Troubled Asset For Obama Administration

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tarp, Brad Sherman, Tarp Recycling, David Vitter, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Politics News

News that banks participating in the Troubled Asset Relief Program would be allowed to repay $68 billion in government funds has sparked a debate amon...

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Sam Stein

Union Targets Democrats With Significant Online EFCA Campaign

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Pryor, Arlen Specter, Employee Free Choice Act, David Vitter, Labor Union Efca, Union Democrats, Jim Webb, Democrats Seiu, Blanche Lincoln, Union, Politics News

One of the nation's largest unions is making a significant ad purchase targeting four Democrats and one Republican Senator on the Employee Free Choice...

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Stormy Daniels Admits Senate Run Sounds "Ludicrous" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Megan Slack | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

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Adult film star Stormy Daniels talked with Fox News on Monday about her possible run for Senate against current Louisiana Sen. David Vitter. Daniels a...

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Pure Politics: The Koh Nomination Fight Drags On

Jay Michaelson | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, John Cornyn, Recess Appointments, Sonia Sotomayor, Harold Koh, Fox News, Harry Reid, Bush Recess Appointments, Ken Starr, David Vitter, Sharia, Harold Koh Nominee for State Department Legal Advisor, Confirmation Hearings, Politics News
Jay Michaelson

The Republicans are starving for a victory -- any victory -- and if they can block Harold Koh, then, hey, at least that's something. But it's always been a bit more than that.

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