Slog - Comments on Prostitution Scandals Left and Right

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:02:14 -0800

How can any of this crap possibly be more fun than Bill Kristol retracting an entire Op Ed? Vitter the shitter? Six month old pit bull stories? Gossip about the fucking Beatles? Another god damn last supper post? Some kind of banking thing? Dull!

Bill Kristol is an idiot! I could blog all day on that and never get tired of it.

Comment by Tlazolteotl

Tlazolteotl — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:04:35 -0800

IOKIYAR!

Comment by keshmeshi

keshmeshi — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:06:09 -0800

Because he's a Republican.

Comment by Andy Niable

Andy Niable — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:09:47 -0800

And why is Larry Craig, who was rebuked by his own paryt AND by the Senate Ethics Committee, still in office?

Comment by NapoleonXIV

NapoleonXIV — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:15:10 -0800

The absolute defeat in those women's eyes is heart-wrenching.

Comment by isabelita

isabelita — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:17:09 -0800

Heh - Both men are making that stupid ass suck face.

Comment by Bauhaus

Bauhaus — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:19:24 -0800

Read Henrick Hertzberg's commentary in this week's New Yorker online. It describes how two senators get away with what an executive cannot:

"If Spitzer had been, say, a United States senator, he might have been able to hang on at least till the end of his term. That�s what Larry Craig and David Vitter, hypocrites of the first water, are doing; they have faded into the echoing hallways of the Capitol like guerrillas melting into a crowd of campesinos."

Full commentary here:

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/03/24/080324taco_talk_hertzberg

Comment by Greg

Greg — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:19:40 -0800

Hotter wife = longer term?

Or maybe it's because #2 is a Republican.

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:20:18 -0800

Let me guess ... because Republicans never pay for their crimes?

Comment by Mahtli69

Mahtli69 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:27:27 -0800

Vitter said, "I've already discussed this with my wife and God, so fuck off."

Larry Craig said, "I didn't do anything wrong, even though I said I did, so fuck off."

Spitzer, on the other hand, crumbled like a piece of week old coffee cake. Spitzer is in somewhat deeper shit because of the Mann act violations and possible improper use of campaign funds to pay for his hobby.

Craig and Vitter, while definitely offending the moral sensibilities of their constituencies, didn't commit any felonies.

Comment by gnossos

gnossos — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:32:43 -0800

and why didn't Vitter's wife go all Lorena Bobbitt on him like she promised?

Comment by Fifty-Two-Eighty

Fifty-Two-Eighty — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:45:11 -0800

Louisiana is so used to corrupt politicians that this probably wasn't even newsworthy there.

Comment by Flying Fuck

Flying Fuck — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:59:41 -0800

the guy from Idaho will be vindicated - the foot tapping was mutual - no crime

Craig is a fighter it turns out and still on the payroll we should understand

his wife has known for many years, and really does not care

and after all, why do I care a flying fuck about fucking - just hope there were a few orgasm for someone in it all

Dan seems to care a lot, why?

Comment by Chris

Chris — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:06:21 -0800

@ #12 - And to think I was worried no one would pull that tired old rag out.

Thanks,
Sick of Vitter in LA

Comment by el

el — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:17:32 -0800

i just assumed Spitzer actually felt bad about being a less than univocal on prostitution/politics of power or rather, being gov wouldn't be nearly as much fun if you had the whole "yeah, but the whole banging the prostitute thing" every time you tried to bust balls.

Comment by lilblackcat

lilblackcat — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:29:52 -0800

I was going to say the same thing as #5. I feel so sorry for those ladies.

Comment by Gomez

Gomez — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:19:47 -0800

LOL at the bitter beer face in both photos. But nothing beats being a wife whose spouses have let the world know that they weren't good enough for their husbands. A winning moment all around!

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Comment by Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:03:19 -0800

@5, 16: The women are what make these compelling pictures. The men aren't really sorry about what they did, but they're very sorry they got caught. Hopefully both women are going to walk away with spectacular divorce settlements.

@17: Fuck off. More like telling the world that they're hypocritical lying douchebags, and metaphorically gut-punching their wives with guilt into standing by them while they admit to it. The next time a politician gets up to this shit, I want to see his wife refuse to get anywhere near that podium. Let him sweat it out on his own-- she doesn't deserve that crap, or the "oh, it's all her fault" Dr. Laura bullshit that invariably falls on her.

Comment by infrequent

infrequent — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:11:20 -0800

@17. it sucks to be the wife, because they have the share in the ridicule for actions that (in most cases) they didn't participate in. they are being used as a tool to convey that the guilty has been forgiven by the one that matters most -- so it's theoretically easier for the public to forgive.

but when i see those women, i don't think they weren't good enough for their husbands. i default to thinking their husbands are at fault. the husband is at fault for not marrying honestly (i'm looking at you mcgreevey), or that no woman would have been enough for the husband.

although we might try to figure out what that says about these women, it doesn't say that they weren't good enough.

Comment by infrequent

infrequent — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:14:24 -0800

@18. yeah, i hope if i were in the guilty party's position i wouldn't ask my partner to stand with me. i hope there would be forgiveness -- but why would i want to put someone else through my public disgrace?