Having lived in Louisiana for almost 9 years from ’97 to ’05, I was thrilled to learn that David Vitter, Republican Senator from LA, has to explain to his wife and children why he is such a shitty husband. And I am thrilled to apply to this asshole of a husband the same criterion I applied to another asshole of a husband Bill Clinton. He shouldn’t be impeached. He should, however, be made to march in next year’s Mardi Gras parade dressed as a penis.
Here’s how Vitter pontificated about Clinton in the Times Picayune.
Some current polls may suggest that people are turned off by the whole Clinton mess and don’t care — because the stock market is good, the Clinton spin machine is even better or other reasons. But that doesn’t answer the question of whether President Clinton should be impeached and removed from office because he is morally unfit to govern.
The writings of the Founding Fathers are very instructive on this issue. They are not cast in terms of political effectiveness at all but in terms of right and wrong — moral fitness. Hamilton writes in the Federalists Papers (No. 65) that impeachable offenses are those that “proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.
Regardless of what I think Vitter should do, the more important question is how can Vitter not resign after his grosteque moral failure? How can Vitter not live up to his own representation of the Founders and act “in terms of right and wrong — moral fitness?”
C’mon Dave. Tuck it in your pants and go home. It’s time for you to leave the Senate. In your own terms, you have no moral fitness to lead or to govern. It’s time for you to quit.
But Dave, I know you are so mired in hypocrisy and moral relativism that you won’t be able to disentangle your own desires from your professed principles.
I’ve got your costume for next year’s Mardi Gras right here.
