Earlier today, Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) called on Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) to resign his Senate seat. Despite his own refusal to resign after admitting to being a former patron of the “DC Madam”, Vitter dismissed the notion that his demands of Burris are hypocritical. “I honestly don’t know anybody who would compare these situations. They are dramatically different,” Vitter said. The Hill reports:
After Vitter admitted his links with the DC Madam in 2007, right-wing pundit Sean Hannity said, “I think Senator Vitter should probably live by the line that he put out for Bill Clinton back in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.” Vitter adamantly refused to resign. Now, it seems, the old Vitter is back and demanding that public officials be held to account.