David Vitter Won't Comment on Justice's Refusal to Marry Interracial Couple
David Shuster reporting that David Vitter is refusing to comment on the justice who refused to marry an interracial couple in Louisiana. Shuster wonders if the Senator is worried about losing support from his base.
From Think Progress- Vitter dodges question about interracial marriage in Louisiana.:
Although both Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) have publicly condemned Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell for refusing to issue marriage licenses to interracial couples, Sen. David Vitter (R) has stayed noticeably silent. (ThinkProgress contacted his office, but we did not receive a response.) Blogger-activist Mike Stark caught up with Vitter and asked him about his position. “Have you commented? What did you have to say about it?” asked Stark. Vitter simply smiled, stepped into the elevator, and allowed the doors to close.
Update: Greg Sargent finally received a response from Vitter's spokesman, but the senator still refuses to condemn Bardwell's actions: "First, Sen. Vitter thinks that all judges should follow the law as written and not make it up as they go along. Second, it would be amazing for anyone to do a story based on this fringe, left-wing political hack’s blog — he’s been handcuffed and detained in the past over his guerrilla tactics."
Shuster said MSNBC called Vitter's office three times asking if the Senator supported the statements by the justice and that they would still not comment.
'saltine' base.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Did anyone catch Scarborough unintentionally invoke the George Costanza - remember Jerry, it's not a lie if your believe it - Defense for Cheney this morning in a "debate" with Lawrence O'Donnell in the 7-7:30 block?
Swear to God.
I almost choked on my coffee. Oy, what a putz.
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common sense matters as much as truth
If you want this racist low life to commit you should have had a DIAPER and a small WHIP or riding crop. He probably would have started to salivate and giggle as well as answer all your questions.
Remember now vitter, DIAPERS he likes DIAPERS.
"Mr Senator! Would you have felt differently about the marriage if they had worn diapers to the justice of the piece?"
Sen. Vitter condemns Mike Stark for Mike not having a prostitute change his diapers?
So what would you expect from one of the Republicans for Rape?
I wonder if his pubes get caught in the sticky tabs on the disposable diapers?
Maybe he prefers the classic "cloth and safety pin" old-fashioned diapers...
Does he have to crap himself for complete satisfaction?
The voters should change him or elect somebody who wears "big boy pants."
Picture the senator completely shaved down there and yes he switched to Huggies Pull-ups because he's a big kid now.
What's his next diaper? It depends...
Does he have to crap himself for complete satisfaction?
Would that make him a shit wit?
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
No matter what he thinks of the racist judge's actions in denying marriage to an inter-racial couple, this guy should be hounded until he leaves the senate - for so many reasons.
- He was one of the 30 illustrious republican senators who supported Halliburton's right to allow gang-rape by it's employees
- Prostitute relationships and the sheer hypocrisy he has exhibited around this issue
- ensign interactions as part of "The Family"
- etc.
that animals like him hate the internet because they can't get away with their hypocrisy as much as they used to...it's a good thang
Of course Vitter would harbor bitterness toward a person who's been handcuffed. That would probably have cost him an extra 60 dollars or so, depending on the girl.
Because of the particular history of Louisiana, there are a very large number of persons of "mixed" ancestry. The "one-drop" historic rule of Louisiana (not unique to that state) making anyone of any African ancestry Black by law is well known. Less well known is the local sociology of "gens du couleur" from Caribbean nations, many so-called "quadroons" and "octoroons" for persons of 1/4 and 1/8 African ancestry, etc.
I apologize for the shock value of the title, but Black activist Robert deCoy's speculative work "The ****** Bible" provides very evocative essays and brief fiction about this Louisiana social history. I do not have historical works specifically on this local fact.
I think there is a specifically Louisiana element to this adamant, revanchist racist JP's chatter. Do recall that David Duke served in the Louisiana legislature within living memory and served as a Republican party official in suburban New Orleans not very long ago....
...I don't like this tactic of forcing a politician to disown every asinine action or statement by every obscure putz from the same state and party. It smacks too much of demanding that a black politician denounce everything that Louis Farrakhan says because, you know, they're both black.
he could easily have nipped this in the bud by simply saying that interracial marriage is legal and he did not condone what the judge did. He must have known that not doing so would draw attention, so I say, let loose on the diaper man!
I love the other snarky comments but I would say with a level head that I agree; Vitter could say something and Vitter could say nothing and not be given pause either way. Vitter is a cracker cretin but you are correct.
and it is the federal constitution that this jackass judge violated through his official acts on the clock to the derogation of the constitutional rights of two of Vitter's constituents. It's kosher legit to ask him for his views of this constitutional violation, in detail.
Vitter's spokesman obviously does not know left-wing liberal bloggers very well.
when a Republican could spout hateful nonsense without having to worry about being called to account for it...
- MSM reporters like Shuster very well
- the non-racist public's view on marriage and the law
- how normal healthy adults conduct themselves in relationships
Dennis
I would hope that you would know that this is the way these Republican spokespeople try to marginalize bloggers who ask the tough questions. All Vitter or his spokesman had to say was "Sen. Vitter thinks that all judges should follow the law as written and not make it up as they go along" and be done with it.
maybe you're right; it would've been better for the spokesman to have just stopped it right there and left off the dig at Sargent.
I probably wouldn't have made a very good spokesman.
should go whine in their cribs, why don't you do that....and maybe your mommy will wipe you bottom for you later.
since it has nothing to do with hookers or diapers.
It's Louisiana for goodness sake. Nothing more needs to be said.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Pinkney Pinchback, biracial Governor of La.
"That's fu*#ing retarded."
Big City Mayor
referring to?
I'd have thought being detained in handcuffs would be up Vitter's street. Oh wait, he's more into diapers, isn't he.
the Emancipation Proclamation, Women's Sufferage or the Civil Rights Act.
Better safe than sorry with that political base of his.
Taking a shot at a blogger who was handcuffed and detained. Brings to mind someone who should have been handcuffed and detained for illegally paying for a prostitute. What was his name? That's right, Senator David Vitter.
is intended to be a factual statement
He's just worried about the children too . .
The bastid!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh2sWSVRrmo
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Vitter doesn't want to lose any of his many prostitutes votes either.
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. ~ Abraham Lincoln
and you can see the slime dripping off him every time he speaks. Like so many others, this hypocrite uses God and country as justification for every single one of his stupidities. Vitter's silence on such an obvious act of overt racism speaks volumes...VOLUMES.
“And thus I clothe my naked villany
With odd old ends stol’n out of holy writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”
King Richard III (I, iii)
I don't think I could resist planting a boot in that smug, censorious, unctuous, lying motherfuckers nutsack...
of course that may be part of the reason WHY i never made it to the Big Time...
Plus, cuz he's in Loooosyanna, where it is still 1879 a lot of places (Jena, up in the piney woods, comes to mind--shit, pretty much the whole piney woods comes to mind), and any criticism of the JoP would be viewed as endorsing racial mixing--which has gone on all along (read James Lee Burke), but is studiously denied and officially abhorred.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRR6VSaaryo
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
"He who remains silent is understood to consent."
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
I thought it was He who doesn't rewind the video tape gets waterboarded.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
all the sorriest, most facetious shit holes in congress are republicans? This is not a rhetorical question.
What pathetic low life piece of sheet , even among the Repugs this one stands out .
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