Image via WikipediaThe problem is, in addition to how fiscally irresponsible it is to pay a prostitute for sex when you have a wife that would do it for free, Vitter also has a long track record of being anything but a deficit slashing Republican.
He gleefully voted, twice, for Bush's tax cuts-- the largest contributor to the deficit. He voted yes for Bush's completely unfunded trillion dollar expansion to Medicare, which, as you might have guessed, adds to the deficit. Vitter also saw absolutely nothing wrong with waging two wars without paying for them. But now that Republicans are not in charge, we all are supposed to pretend that Vitter has always been an upstanding Christian that cares deeply about fiscal stewardship.
What's amazing, though. In this era of 24/7 news coverage, where there are millions of cameras, cell phones, the Internet, YouTube, and a plethora of images reminding us of how fiscally irresponsible David Vitter and his Republican cohorts were just a very short time ago, the media never bothers to take two seconds to realize everything the GOP is saying now is the complete opposite of how they govern.
It's pretty bad this day and age that someone like David Vitter still gets portrayed in the media as well as in his Republican circles as a moral values, Christian conservative fiscal hawk. It's fraudulence to say the least.
What's amazing, though. In this era of 24/7 news coverage, where there are millions of cameras, cell phones, the Internet, YouTube, and a plethora of images reminding us of how fiscally irresponsible David Vitter and his Republican cohorts were just a very short time ago, the media never bothers to take two seconds to realize everything the GOP is saying now is the complete opposite of how they govern.
It's pretty bad this day and age that someone like David Vitter still gets portrayed in the media as well as in his Republican circles as a moral values, Christian conservative fiscal hawk. It's fraudulence to say the least.
*Update:
Reader JS writes in to challenge my paying a hooker is fiscally irresponsible claim.
"I vehemently disagree with you suggesting Vitter is acting fiscally irresponsible for paying a prostitute for sex when he has a wife. You obviously haven't followed the Vitter scandal at all.
He paid a prostitute to dress him up in a diaper and treat him like a baby. I'm sure that's not something his wife would do. Therefore, since his wife wouldn't bottle feed him while wearing an adult diaper, he had to pay someone else to do it. Don't know what world you live in but that's not fiscally irresponsible. Maybe a bad choice in fetishes but not when it comes to monetary policy since he wasn't getting that service at home for free like your post alluded."
I stand corrected.
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