Courtesy of Not Very Bright, we found this interesting quote from Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) in today’s Washington Post regarding Sen. David Vitter’s implication in the DC Madam scandal:
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), approached by a group of reporters outside the lunch, offered an unexpected defense. “All of us have to look at it and say that we could be next,” he said in answer to a Vitter question. “We all think that we’re not vulnerable to something like that happening, but the fact is this can be a very lonely and isolating place.”
Yikes. Might other senators be on the Madam’s list? [DANA MILBANK - Washington Post]
Come again?
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Per TPM, David Corn has discovered at least one Senate phone number (pre-Vitter days) in the list.
You’re only vulnerable to something like that if YOU USE PROSTITUTES!!!!!!!! Always remember, the reason that Republicans hate sex so much is that they have to pay for it.
Well, DeMint only became a Senator in 2004, so he’s not behind Corn’s mystery Senate number. He was in the House before that. Not the brightest bulb, that one.
Yikes. Might other senators be on the Madam’s list?
Well, isn’t that your job to find out, Dana? It would have been in the early seventies
at the WoPo. Also, we can be sure, in the mid-nineties.
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I have proof that there are 1000 card carrying madams and pimps in D.C.
Yikes! In fairness I think he chose his words poorly, and probably was referring to using prostitutes itself when he said we’re all vulnerable to something like that. Not referring to the act of being uncovered. Funny though, and promising.
There are 1000 card carrying whores in DC. They’re called the Republican party.
Well…I won’t comment beyond the assertion that this senator is, as we say in Charleston, “dumb as dogshit.”
I think that’s just basic “christian” forgiveness/mercy type talk these southern boys keep in reserve, exclusively for when one of their own “honorable man” club goes down.
ahh, the “lonely” defense… well, I’m convinced there’s no hypocrisy here!
Ever heard of self-incrimination? LOL! I guess we know where to look next…
I never thought that Clinton’s escapade was anyone’s business but his and his family. I feel the same way about the use of prostitutes, if the law don’t catch you the hell with it. The whole country is coming apart and we are worried or fixated on a few prostitutes and clients. Come on.
I am so pleased to find out that the Senatie includes among its members lunatics from other states, and not just the lunatics from Texas. The same sort of of feeling I get when a toronado victim is being interviewed on television and my prayer that he not be from Texas gets answered in a line akin to, “That damn thang came blowin in soundin xactly like the 11:02 from over to Jonesboro.”
This is the same idiot who said democrats were to blame for soldiers’ deaths in Iraq a month ago.
Will the State paper print his boolsheet? Greenville Republican News won’t.
Please Lord, let it be from Lieberman’s office……
It’s not the sex, it’s the fact that the prostitutes were paid by a third party - in Viter’s case it seems to have been Abromhof.
Sounds like Demint would be a good fit in Rudy’s campaign. If we are so intent on electing the biggest moron we can find to any public office in this state, can’t we at least make them shut up?
quote of the day…
from the comments to Does DeMint have a little secret? » The Palmetto Scoop:
Always remember, the reason that Republicans hate sex so much is that they have to pay for it.
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It is not the use of prostitutes…it is the hypocrisy. How dare these holier than thou types dictate how we should live our lives and preach “family values” while they are paying prostitutes for sex. Assholes…
Nope. We really do have two lunatics in the senate in this state. You think Demint is bad, Lindsey Graham purportedly has a law degree from somewhere and works as a judge for JAG, and yet the man on at least three dozen occasions tried to analogize the enemy combatants at Guantanamo with German prisoners of war during WWII. In Charleston, he may be dumb as dogshit. Upstate, we would just say someone was “dumb as Graham.” More insulting, because once you get Graham on the bottom of your shoe, you might as well just discard the pair. You can’t get him off with peanut butter.
Hope and pray S.C. keeps ALL theirdixicrat REPUBLICANS to themselves: Idaho already has more than a full compliment of “dogshit dumb” republicans in office now, so PLEASE DO NOT SEND US ANY MORE!
I could care less where some cracker bible-thumper sticks his little wee-wee and whether or not he pays cash to the lucky recipient.
BUT: when someone makes other peoples’ wee-wees and where they stick them a political issue, then his personal business is fair game.
i know i’m anonymous, but not lately on the public payroll-like mr. vitter. i think he just pulled a heck of a dissapearing act.
Don’t forgey that the DC Madam’s lawyer said that Dick Cheneys name was “not, not on the list”
Someone should revisit the Jeff Ganon spending the night in the White House story.
there is a god.
#1 Dana Milbank is a tool. #2 The “other” senator phone # is the office of the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY). #3 Man, o man there are a bunch of tools here, too.
Dana Milbank is a tool, and Myrtle is a beach.
Myrtle, darling, the point of this exercise, doh, is to reflect on the hypocrisy of the transgressors.
The last I recall about the late Moynihan was that he was not crowing about his holier-than-thou family life v. going-to-hell family life of persons he didn’t like, or with whom he had political differences.
He discoursed with political opponents, unlike the hypocrites who have intercourse with those they condemn in public.
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