Vitter casts lone vote against Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State.
By on Jan 15th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Vitter casts lone vote against Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State.
Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 16-1 to approve President-elect Obama’s nomination of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Casting the sole “nay” vote was Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), who was concerned about Bill Clinton’s “multimillion dollar minefield of conflicts of interest.” Vitter has long been a Clinton foe, calling on President Clinton to step down in 1998 because of his affair with Monica Lewinsky. In 2007, Vitter also revealed that he had been a client of the D.C. Madam’s escort service, but refused to resign.
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Vitter casts lone vote against Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State.»
– - Vitter is to the Senate what toilet tissue is to a high heel.
January 15th, 2009 at 11:52 amI see some more Depends in his future. Obstructionist moron.
January 15th, 2009 at 11:53 amAnd that is your modern republican party: Good for me, not for thee. Mrs. Vitter is just beaming in that photo, heh?
God, what a pathetic excuse for a political party.
January 15th, 2009 at 11:53 amQuestion… if it was the right thing to do for Spitzer to resign once it was known he had been seeing a prostitute, why is Vitter still in Congress, and why did the GOOP go so far as to even give him a standing ovation at one point?
Perverts standing up for other perverts?
January 15th, 2009 at 11:53 amYes, but was he wearing a diaper?
January 15th, 2009 at 11:53 amVitter is a despicable hypocrite!
January 15th, 2009 at 11:54 amHere’s a perfect example of a needed change…
January 15th, 2009 at 11:55 amShe should be very pleased by this! Sick and still fighting, he calls attention to himself just when the public forgot he is still around. I bet most of America is saying: “Didn’t he leave in disgrace?”
January 15th, 2009 at 11:55 amVitter will be up for re-election next time and he is trying to establish himself as a champion for conservative causes, to appeal to his constituency here in LA.
January 15th, 2009 at 11:56 amWith all politics being local, he is playing the odds to help him get re-elected.
David F’n Vitter; Depends you change into…
January 15th, 2009 at 11:59 amHe who has not sinned my cast the first stone….Vitter, what are you doing in line????
January 15th, 2009 at 11:59 amI looked up the word HYPOCRITE in the dictionary and two photos of MARRIED MEN pop up:
DAVID VITTER
BILL ‘FALAFEL MAN’ O’REILLY
Vitter pays for sex . .
Billo too cheap to pay for sex . .
January 15th, 2009 at 12:04 pmVitter is NOT a hypocrite. He was, as a good Republican should, supporting a corporation, while Clinton, as a lustful liberal does, was expecting and got a freebie.
/snark off
January 15th, 2009 at 12:04 pmWhen the Lord handed out dapper, Vitter thought He said diaper…..
¶ AIO
January 15th, 2009 at 12:05 pmexcellent shot of the missus… i’ll never understand her decision to wear that dress, much less the decision to stand there that day…
January 15th, 2009 at 12:05 pmVitter, what a diaper load he is……hehe.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:05 pmhahahahaha……atta boy Davey……you keep poking the hornets nest
January 15th, 2009 at 12:08 pmatta boy Davey……you keep poking the hornets nest
– - And yet another euphemism for Vitter’s philandering.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:11 pmWhat are the odds he got off because while he may have visited the classy cathouse, he didn’t pay for sex. Maybe there are somethings (and people) even hookers can’t be paid to do.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:11 pmDo these morons actually think that their obstructionism and indifference makes them look better after the last eight years of their marching in lock step behind the most corrupt, inept, sob to ever darken the doors of the White House? This whoremongering fool makes me happy because people like him are the death of the GOP. That party cannot die soon enough.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:13 pmDiaper Dave Vitter only supports women who pay for play.
-GSD
January 15th, 2009 at 12:13 pmDoes Vitter represent the permanent Repub majority?
January 15th, 2009 at 12:18 pmVitter just wants to keep women in their place –the whorehouse changing his diaper…
January 15th, 2009 at 12:18 pmThe fact that he was the lone dissenting vote says it all folks. This man is irrelevant, so lets move on.
Change.
RIP
January 15th, 2009 at 12:20 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
Where was this joke of an individual’s opposition when Bush was appointing former industry lobbyists and other industry puppets to virtually every position in his administration?
January 15th, 2009 at 12:21 pmIf you were Hillary Clinton, would you want Vitter to vote for you?
January 15th, 2009 at 12:21 pmDisgusting creep!
January 15th, 2009 at 12:24 pmPatrioticLiberalChristian Says:
… while Clinton, as a lustful liberal does, was expecting
and got a freebie.
and he didn’t even have to ASK for it!
January 15th, 2009 at 12:24 pmAnd, of course, this schmuck will be re-elected in 2010. The Dems best shot is with Mitch Landrieu..and that ain’t saying much.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:26 pmShe seems to be praying in the photo…’Oh plz, plz, plz, don’t let him be turned down by another cathouse.’
January 15th, 2009 at 12:27 pmI know the media is supposed to stay neutral (heh) but any reporter with a sense of humor should have the sound of a baby crying and pooping as a ringtone. And any time that reporter has to cover Vitter at a press conference or making a statement, that reporter should “unexpectedly” get a call. The sound of babies crying and pooping should follow him everytime he speaks in public.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:27 pmVitter may be a world-class jerk – but he’s right on this. The sleazy network that Bill Clinton has built to enrich himself should not be anywhere near an administration that purports to be bringing real change. There will be trouble on this in the future.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:34 pmSenator Vitters thought it was a vote on not hiring Prostitutes he really wasn’t thinking about the topic of Secretary of State. This is what happens when a Sex starved Senator’s mind wanders and he needs a diaper change.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:34 pmI’d have thought Vitter would want to keep his head down (heh, I said “head”). Whenever I hear/read his name I visualize adult diapers and laugh.
I suppose he thinks voting against Hillary will please his constituents. Maybe. But consider the FUN his opponent will have in the election!
January 15th, 2009 at 12:41 pmI’ll bet he voted for Halliburton no-bid contracts. I’ll bet he supports any KBR project planned for the US. I’d like to have seen HALF this scrutiny paid to Cheney/Bush when they first began lying to Congress.
Why are republicans so willing to put party before country? Greed.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:44 pmMeh, he probably saw it was going to be unanimous, which left him free to flip the bird one more time at Hillary. But he’s not even a speed bump.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:58 pmVitter’s women take on the battered syndrome look. Hillary is glad not receive any of his advances.
January 15th, 2009 at 1:04 pmVitter does his doody.
January 15th, 2009 at 1:16 pmBuckie Boy Says:
Vitter, what a diaper load he is……hehe.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
— Or maybe he just hangs around Jonah Goldberg for the smell.
January 15th, 2009 at 1:17 pmWould you expect anything less from this flee bag neo-con smuck?
January 15th, 2009 at 1:38 pmI found it so annoying and the ultimate Repuke hypocrite move to have him question Hillary Clinton about his funding that provides medications to the poor with HIV, while he spends his money, or ours, on prostitutes.
He is the ultimate man whore.
January 15th, 2009 at 1:58 pmWhy would anyone take Vitter seriously anyway? “Vitter the $hitter”, anyone?
I can’t walk past a display of diapers anymore without bursting into laughter at the thought of this wingnut gleefully filling up his own diaper at every opportunity.
Vitter should just sit down, ride out the rest of his term and then crawl back under his rock.
January 15th, 2009 at 2:17 pmEnnuiDivine Says:
And, of course, this schmuck will be re-elected in 2010. The Dems best shot is with Mitch Landrieu..and that ain’t saying much.
There may be a Louisiana Republican out there who will think that Vitter is vulnerable and will switch to the Dems to run against him. It happens down here all the time.
January 15th, 2009 at 3:10 pmYes he is.
But you know what else?
Hillary Clinton is a despicable hypocrite!
January 15th, 2009 at 6:04 pmSpitzer got shafted not because he had a thing for prostitutes. He was outed because he was SUCCESSFULLY prosecuting those on Wall Street that were stealing wholesale. If he had not been so good at his job, he would be still doing it. He left because he did not want what he did to take away from what he was trying to do. It concerns his wife more than anything.
Vitters is still doing his. And not nearly as well. And he is what he is. Republican. He still has his job because he does not have that kind of sensitivity. His wife is the only one who can answer whether he is worth the embarrassment.
January 15th, 2009 at 6:53 pmi don’t get it.
January 15th, 2009 at 7:31 pmwhy is this clown still in the senate while eliot spitzer is barely a memory?
Vitter is a RepubliCon A$$wipe. To bad, he was not lost to Katrina; rather then all the innocents.
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