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And another one goes Birther
This time David Vitter: He basically encourages conservatives to keep suing the President to see a “valid birth certificate”, thereby allowing the guy who asks the question to have his incorrect premise—that Obama hasn’t produced a real birth certificate—go unquestioned. Since the President has produced his birth certificate, allowing the…
GOP Senator Vitter encourages lawsuits over debunked ‘birther’ conspiracy
Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana says he supports conservative organizations challenging President Barack Obama’s citizenship in court. Vitter, who is running for re-election, made the comments at a town hall-style event in Metairie, La., on Sunday when a constituent asked what he would do about what the questioner said…
David Vitter survives because, not despite, of the prostitution angle
Niall Stanage has a piece up at Salon examining how David Vitter has managed to survive a rather comical sex scandal involving prostitutes and diaper-wearing. He makes a lot of good points about the situation in Louisiana and how Vitter is benefiting, but I think it’s useful to think about…
I’ll feign surprise and call that an altercation
While the subject matter of this article by Matthew Mosk and Brian Ross is some dark shit, I have to admit that I chortled through the entire thing. No, not at the story. But at the reporting, and the way that every asinine mainstream media trope about politics and violence…
Sen. Vitter doesn’t know if Loving v. Virginia was a correct decision: ‘I haven’t read the case’
Who’d have thought we’d be talking about miscegenation in 2009? But as we saw yesterday, and now with this bit of business, there are people who have “Jungle Fever” still eating away at their bigoted brains 40+ years after Loving v. Virginia. For quite some time, the press, including Mike…
Mitch McConnell: stimulus will result in the ‘Europeanization of America’
Conservative are losing their minds over this stimulus plan. Tonight I had Lou Dobbs on the TV (don’t ask), and he showed a clip of McConnell declaring with horror that the stimulus plan was going to result in the “Europeanization of America”. ZOMG1!! Give him some Pampers. Speaking of Pampers,…
Vitter and Craig co-sponsor Federal Marriage Amendment
The “I’m not sh*tting you” news of the day. Here are two guys who should have hung their hypocritical heads in shame after embarrassing their party, but they just can’t help themselves – they hate TEH GAYZ that much. (PageOneQ): Two United States Senators implicated in extramarital sexual activity have…
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