Why should he? It’s all a non-issue for Republicans, so why should Democrats be held to a different standard? So the so-called Justice Department can carve another notch on the bedpost for taking down another Democratic governor, like they did Spiegelman? Forget about it. And Jeralyn raises the key issue for all the moralists and high horse experts out there:

[Spitzer laywer Michelle] Hirshman — a former assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan — also argued that if federal prosecutors brought charges against Mr. Spitzer, they would be required to similarly charge the nine other unnamed clients> in a federal complaint unsealed last Thursday, to avoid what’s known in legal circles as “selective prosecution.” None of the other nine unnamed clients have been charged in the case.

Bingo. Shouldn’t everybody be calling for all 9 to be prosecuted, not just Spitzer? And Ted Haggard too, for good measure? Why aren’t they, I wonder?

At most, here’s what Spitzer should do:  Read more 

New Orleans Advocate:

Ex-prostitute tells Hustler of Vitter encounters
Vitter used condoms and engaged in straight sex, “no weird fetishes or anything like that,” [Wendy] Ellis says in the magazine.

Ellis says Vitter did one thing, though, that none of her other clients did; he took his used condoms with him.

Uh, that’s not weird? I mean, what’s he doing with them? Keeping a scrapbook?  Read more 

WASHINGTON (AP) — A GOP leader Sunday denied a double standard in pushing Sen. Larry Craig to resign after a sex sting guilty plea, while remaining silent over GOP Sen. David Vitter’s involvement with an escort service.

He said.

A senior Democrat said a double standard by Republican leaders is exactly what occurred.

He said.  Read more 

Since the Inerrantwordagawd says that consorting with harlots is an an “abomination” (Deuteronomy 23:18), shouldn’t each and every Christianist be picking up a stone and hurling it at Diaper Davey just about now?

Instead, the Vitters dump this steaming load of self-serving and sanctimonious crap right into the middle of the public square they keep yammering about. The presser:

[WENDY VITTER:] To those of you who know me, are you surprised that I have something to say? You know, in most any other marriage, this would have been a private issue between a husband and a wife — very private. Obviously, it is not here.

How far away those happy, innocent days seem when you guys spent $20 million dollars investigating a blowjob and concocting a perjury trap for two consenting adults who didn’t break any laws (as your husband did).

And now I’m going to speak to you as a mother and I hope you will understand. It’s been terribly hard to have the media parked on our front lawn and following us every day. And yesterday, the media was camped at our church — at our home, and at our church every day.

Boo fucking hoo. I’m playing the world’s smallest violin for you, Wendy. You guys are the ones who want the church in the public square, and then when the public wants to see who’s going in and out the church door, you whine about how “terribly hard” [snicker] it all is. You’re the ones who wanted the government in Terry Shiavo’s bedroom, and played political football with a dying woman’s body, and now you whine about your precious privacy?

[DAVID VITTER:] Wendy and I dealt with this personally several years ago. I confronted it in confession and marriage counseling. I believe I received forgiveness from God. I know I did from Wendy, and we put it behind us.

Apparently, for a Christianist going to confession and doing a little counselling trumps breaking the law, not just Deuteronomy 23:18, but state and Federal statutes, as well. Good to keep that in mind when we’re dealing with the rest of the Christianists in Bush’s criminal regime.

Since then, I’ve gotten up every morning [boo hoo], committed to trying to live up to the important values we believe in. If continuing to believe in and acknowledge those values causes some to attack me because of my past failings, well, so be it.

Didn’t The Onlybegottensonagawd have something to say about this? (Luke 6:42) But what we get instead from these guys is this:

“Values for thee, but not for me.”

And that’s the crux of the matter, isn’t it?  Read more