Senator David Vitter is just trying to do his job.
The media are making that difficult.
WASHINGTON -- Louisiana Sen. David Vitter returned to the Capitol Tuesday, dodging camera crews where possible and refusing to take reporters' questions about a sex scandal that sent him into seclusion for a week.
The first-term Republican said he wanted to resume his normal Senate schedule, but that proved difficult as news crews camped outside his office and chased him down hallways. Vitter, 46, has acknowledged "a serious sin" after his Washington telephone number was found among those called several years ago by an escort service that prosecutors say was a prostitution ring.
Vitter and his wife Wendy told reporters Monday in Metairie, La., that their marriage is strong and the senator plans to continue his political career. Vitter said other allegations made against him are untrue, apparently referring to a New Orleans woman's claim that he had frequented her brothel in the 1990s.
...On Tuesday morning he did not appear at his office in the Hart Senate Office Building, where a gaggle of cameras and journalists waited. But he did attend a commerce subcommittee hearing on "air services to small and rural communities" in the nearby Russell building.
When Vitter left, while the hearing continued, reporters chased him down a hallway until he turned and calmly addressed them. He said he and his wife already had made "very straightforward statements about all of this. And I look forward today to being back at work, really focused on a lot of important issues for the people of Louisiana, like what we were discussing in the committee hearing."
Gee, you'd think the guy drove his car off a bridge, left a young woman to die in the submerged vehicle, and failed to report the accident for hours.
You'd think that all politicians and presidents and preachers throughout our history have been faithful spouses and pure as the driven snow, sinless.
For the record, I'm anti-adultery and anti-prostitution. I'm not defending Vitter.
I think Vitter made some bad choices. I also think that the press is making some bad choices. The public would be better served if the press would follow stories with far greater weight than this one.
We're at risk of a terror attack.
Who cares?
We want more on the Vitter story.
Riiiiiiight.
16 comments:
Sorry, Mary, but Vitter is news. Regretably, he has made a career of wanting to have the government in everyone's bedroom, but his. His attacks on everyone else's sex lives, his wife's attack on Hilary Clinton, make the Vitters laughable. Whether you like it or not, his conduct in Washington, D.C. (paying for sex) and allegedly in New Orleans, is also CRIMINAL. Should these laws be repealed for everyone, or only self-righteous republicans? The "madam" in DC is now facing a federal criminal case ( in the same courthouse where Scooter was convicted). Shouldn't Vitter? I guess Gonzales to too busy :"forgetting" his own legal violations to have Vitter charged.
Wasn't your state the last state to stage a large scale terrorist attack on this nation? We are always going to be at risk by crazies on the left or the right. So why is that news? Or you are more interested in our failed foreign policy that is making us a less safe place than a typical republicrat/democan sleeze bag thinking he can get away with something the average Joe would go to jail for?
I would like some news on who in this country armed Saddam and Osama . That would be news... and good stuff too...
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Scary Mary, you're such a gas!
Anytime a democrat or liberal does it, it's the crime of the century. When a Democrat in the White House does it, it demands impeachment.
But when a conservative does it, it's only "making some bad choices"!
The only problem with this story is that it's NOT news. There have been numerous cases of pols that claim "moral values" that are revealed to be immoral pussy-chasers themselves. And not just pols, but even Bible-thumpers themselves; Ted Haggard being the latest example.
No wonder the rest of the world views America as a joke.
Just stoppin' by to say hello! Have a great day tomorrow!
Burkean Reflections
Mary you can't be serious? Just when you thought you heard it all from the fringe right wing her comes this story. So busy regulating what happens in my bedroom Sen. Vitter wasn't able to take care of his own business. The man is a fraud and so is his wife. The good senator is getting back to work, please.
Dear anonymous 1:30 PM, July 17, 2007, (May I cut the formality and call you "anonymous"?)
I didn't say that Vitter wasn't news.
Furthermore, I clearly stated that I wasn't defending Vitter or adultery or prostitution.
Did you miss that?
The point of my post was to highlight what I believe is the disproportionate media attention being paid to the Vitter case.
Is Vitter a hypocrite? Absolutely.
You'll get no argument from me on that.
By the way, what an artful insertion of Libby and Gonzales into this discussion!
Very impressive.
Dakotaboy, what are you talking about?
BMG, I really don't care for your vulgarities and I don't like to go over this same old stuff.
SO PAY ATTENTION!
Clinton was NOT impeached for his immoral sexual behavior. He was impeached for perjury to a grand jury and obstruction of justice.
Get it?
Hello, Donald.
anonymous 12:43 AM, July 18, 2007,
Get a grip!
Originally, I thought that Vitter was the hypocrite in this matter.
I'm beginning to think that the real hypocrites are all the libs bent on making this out to be the most important issue of our time.
Amusing.
Mary,
Interesting! First, you don't even write about Vitter when the news came out!!! Now, you are blaming the media!! :)
Don't you get tired of your own spin? This is exactly the problem with far-right and far-left guys like you, who have lost all the credibility!
You guys are so predictable!!! Absolutely no surprises here!! ;-)
When you whined that I was ignoring the Vitter case, I replied that I obviously didn't have time to post on every story out there. When I do comment, you whine some more.
And yes, I'm critiicizing the media.
Where's the spin? What are you talking about?
Since I'm so predictable, why bother to read my blog? I suggest that you spend your time where you are spared all my tiresome spin.
Go find something that will surprise you.
"He [Clinton] was impeached for perjury to a grand jury and obstruction of justice."
So tell us, Scary Mary, why if a Democrat perjures it is "impeachable", but when a White House official of a conservative administration does it he is pard....er, COMMUTED, all because the power-craving president simply decides that the sentence is "too harsh"?
It's too bad you're not a part of the White House staff now. You'd make a great comedienne!
Please elaborate what are what you call "vulgarities". I thought they were more like what Cheney would say to an opposition senator, or how Bush would describe laws that limit his power.
You're out.
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