Hannity is just a repeat of what Rush said in the 3 hours prior, and he screams too much. Michael Medved
is far more interesting. BOR annoys me too :-)

Hannity not blindly supporting anyone calling themselves a Republican? That's just too weird...

www.political-buzz.com

Whenever a politician usually a Republican says they live by a moral code and family values kind of guy. THEY ARE LYING! If you vote for them you are a gullible fool perpretrating the stereotype that the ignorant masses are alive and VOTING.

Juan, Go back to Cuba. You just don't get it. The Republicans in office weren't representing true conservative values and so we conservatives voted them out of office. We will now vote the NEO-RATS (Democrat) incumbents out next. I highly recommend you vote your NEO-RATS out of office.

Walking the walk.

Dems circle the wagons.

Reps eat their own.

Vitter needs to go ASAP.

NBC's political unit has my sympathy -- being forced to listen to Hannity. When you clean your ears remember that doctors say not to use cotton swaps.

Steven P -- you misspelled Repugnicants. Glad to hear that there are still some true conservatives in existance.

Is Phoneix near Phoenix?

Wow, you get paid to sit around listening to the radio? Where do I apply?

Hannity gets my vote in this.The point is that the GOP can create a more muscular party by shedding its Clinton-era chaff and those attached to the Abramoff scandal which will leave only fossilized Democrats hanging around mucking up the place.[including Reid,who has still never returned his Abramoff dough]. Curious,is it not,that while Democrats refer to Republicans as ''partisan'',they keep sending back the same people not merely year after year,but decade after decade to Capitol Hill. This is the very essence of ''partisanship''.

So a Senator hires a prostitute and Hannity wants him to resign...

But Hannity's President has been screwing the United States up for almost 7 years and that guy's a hero?

"PLEASE READ: All comments must be approved before appearing in the thread; time and space constraints prevent all comments from appearing. We will only approve comments that are directly related to the blog, use appropriate language and are not attacking the comments of others."

Is 'Juan, Go back to Cuba' appropriate?  Am I mistaken?  Do you know him?

And the funny thing is that you didn't tell Matthew or Dave to go back to England.  

Lets try to be more constructive without making useless assumptions.

Steve in Arizona-Typical juvenile response. I left Cuba 47 years ago when I was 3 months old. I am more of an American than you will ever be because I loved what this country once presented before your dictator president took over. Furthermore, you jerk, we are an immigrant nation.. check your family tree and see where your ancestors came from.  

Steve in Arizona-Typical juvenile response. I left Cuba 47 years ago when I was 3 months old. I am more of an American than you will ever be because I loved what this country once presented before your dictator president took over. Furthermore, you jerk, we are an immigrant nation.. check your family tree and see where your ancestors came from.  

Republicans live by different values then Democrats.  When they foul up, they need to go.  If a Republican were found to have a history with the KKK, he/she would need to go.  If a Repuplican had someone drown because of their negligence, he/she would need to go.  If a Rep had $90000 of campaign cash in their freezer, they would need to go.

Dems can do what they want.  Ah, ah, ah, its not so bad, others so it, Reps do it.  Deny, deny, deny.

Foley went.  Cunningham went.  Vitter is next.  He's got issues to work out with his family.  That's more important then him being a Senator.  Dem Gov in LA?  So what.  Let her appoint another Dem.  Wouldn't even care if it was the tie breaker.

Look, Vitter is an idiot and a hypocrite, and if he represented anyone else I'd say "get out". But he represents Louisiana. Look back on all of the LA pols, and he's not even a fraction of the scoundrel. So let him stay, and after seeing his Mrs. I say "let him stray".

Republican Forever, you can't be serious.  It's appropriate for Vitter to go but don't claim that Republicans live by different values when there are ample examples to prove otherwise.  No, I'm not going to name them.  We all know who they are.

"Republicans live by different values than Democrats"?  Why was Libby sentenced then commuted?  Why hasn't the original leaker been fired as promised by the Liar-in-Chief?  You are seriously deluded, Repub Forever, may your taxes be ever raised.  Lee Holmes, for once I agree with you, partisanship be damned, lets throw all the old garbage out and pray the new garbage doesn't rot too fast!

"Why was Libby sentenced then commuted?"

Because Fitzgerald railroaded him. If you had actually studied the case instead of listening to all of the liberal talking points, you would realize this.

"Why hasn't the original leaker been fired as promised by the Liar-in-Chief?"

You mean Richard Armitage? What's that, never heard of him? Not surprised.

Doug, your knowledge surrounding the Plame case is clearly lacking.

Typical Dem response. Hey Dems, clean up a little of your garbage before you point out the work in progress on the Rep side.  I'm mean, make it at least look like you're trying.  The Kennedy family stuff should keep you busy at least for a few months.  Be the first Dem on your block to call for Patrick Kennedy's resignation.  There's another guy like Vitter that has some serious issues to deal with that are more important then being in Washington.

Reps aren't perfect at this stuff, but at least we try.  Dems take the position, well until all the big bad Reps are gone, we're not doing nothing.

Like I said, different values.

From Louisiana, let me say that Vitter is not being crucified for his sin but for his hypocrisy! Do you know what this man promised to be elected, what he said that President Clinton should have done, or even, what wife said when she dissed Hillary for "standing by her man" and stating she would Bobbit her husband if he strayed ???
What we hear from the Louisiana Republicans today is that our former four time Governor Edwin Edwards did worse. Sorry, no cigar! Edwards never lied about his transgressions nor did he try to portray himself as the incarnation of the Second Coming.
It is, in the end, all a matter of trust...a trust that Vitter has broken. I only suggest that he take his own advice about what those of lies and dirty deeds should do if they are elected officials. Are his words all lies?

President Clinton set the modern-day standard and any elected official who follows in his footsteps should resign or be ousted one way or another.

Juan from Cuba - so you came to America in 1960 when Elvis and Ricky were rocking the AM airwaves. Now Hannity, Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are mainstream AM radio. Funny how things change.

"From Louisiana, let me say that Vitter is not being crucified for his sin but for his hypocrisy!"

Well, that, and the fact that what Vitter did is pretty darn illegal.  Besides the illegal part of it, it reveals that Vitter really has some serious personal issues that he and his family need to take a look at.  While he's doing that, he really should not be in such an important position as Senator.  The man is not thinking straight.  Resign, take as much time as needed to work through the problems, and run again at some later time.  If the people still want him, he'll be back.

There is nothing wrong with projecting an image of morality that is an ideal that people attempt to attain.  The rub comes when you show yourself to be so out of step with the ideal.  No one is a complete choir-boy/girl, but that doesn't mean you don't try to live to the ideal.

Dems look at actions like Vitter and see the hypocrisy being worse then the behavior.   Dems get off because they don't purport to live to those ideals, so a simple "Sorry, and hey, I'm working on it, leave me alone, besides its none of your business anyway" works for them.  Reps say both are important.

Please notice, no comparison is made here with other pols.  I'm not saying Vitters actions are better/worse then someone's else's behavior.  Vitter's actions are the only pol commented on.  Getting into moral equalivency discussions comparing this persons actions to that persons actions are an absolute waste of time.

Different values.

Republican Forever - "Different values." That's one way of putting it. "Hypocrite Forever" is another. I guess being forgiven by God wasn't an option in Clinton's case.

Okay, now reading that Congressman Chris Shays (R-Conn) had a problem with the capital police over something stupid.  Looks like he had a "Cynthia McKinney" moment.  19 year guy in the House.  

May be time for Shay's to move on to a new career. I'm a little biased on that one though, because I don't like the guys politics.

See, we treat these people like sports stars, and you just want to forgive them for this nonsense because, hey, "They're our guys on our team!".  They are in the public eye, they are role models, and they need to act like it.  If they can't, bring in someone that can.  There are thousands of people that can do the work these people do.

Please people! As an independent let me just suggest that you look at what he has done RIGHT, and stop castigating people for their personal 'trust' issues. Man! What a bunch of bitter do-gooders! He put his neck on the line to prevent the overthrow of this sovereign nation by Bush and the Mexican nationals! THAT is what is important. The rest of it is 'hurt feelings'. Let him be duly chastised and then let him keep destroying the enemy! Remember Ike and Patton!

Hey, "Different Values".  The prosecuter that went after that steaming pile of corruption Cunningham was one of the ones fired to make sure that little screw-up never happened again. The Nazis had "different values," too. Congratulations on being so moral.

"Hannity gets my vote in this.The point is that the GOP can create a more muscular party by shedding its Clinton-era chaff ...blah blah blah.." So - it has nothing to do with the fact that his a point-blank hypocrite, because EVERYONE in the right wing is a hypocrite. What bar do you usually lecture at?

Joel, your sense of justice is clearly lacking. You jackels couldn't feast enough on Clinton's blood when he lied to a grand jury about where his penis had been, but Libby's lying was a "railrode" job. Does the hypocrisy wake any of you brown shirts up at night?

This ''differant values''thing has had more light shed upon it by three recent findings by [indeed,as recently as today,coming in the form of the liberal Boston Globe newspaper],The Center for Responsible Politics,and Taxpayers for Common Sense.
              It has been liberals including their elected representatives who are the most quick to oft-quote President Eisenhowers famous ''Industrial-Military Complex'' speech made towards the end of his presidency,as a warning against engaging the defense sector into an arms race with its subsequent global results.
         Yet findings by the above non-partisan[or even liberal,in the case of the Globe] organizations ,prove beyond any doubts that it is the same Democrats who rail against the war in Iraq who are doing the upmost to export American arms misery to other nations fueling conflicts in several nations across the globe, directly contravening their ''values''regarding Ikes own beliefs which they had heretofore embraced as recently as the 1st Gulf War.
                The Center for Responsive Politics[www.opensecrets.org,quoted in the Globe article], finds that of the top 10 Senators in Washington,6 of these are Democrats who have placed more earmarks into Defense spending than any other legislator in Washington outside of their House compatriots. Levin,Clinton,Reed,Schumer,Kennedy,Feinstein,Inouye and Murtha lead the pack, with Kennedy forcing 100 million for a pet Massachusetts General Electric fighter project for the US Air Force that it said it did not want or need.
              Democrats garnered over 60% of defense -contractor,[including all small and large arms delivery systems] campaign contributions in the 2006 cycle with billions either being wasted on arms boondoggles in favoured districts [including Murthas Pennsylvania and Kennedys Massachusetts], or being thrown away in projects utterly unrelated to even spending on Iraq War arms and equipment for the soldiers in the field, making Reids and Clintosn recent comments on the war this much more disgraceful,as well finally dispensing with any notion that Pelosi came to power ''to drain the swamp''.
           An anti-arms proliferation organization is Stockholm,Sweden,observes that the US has achieved parity with the Russians as the world masters of global arms trafficking and that Democrats are not only doing nothing to stem this flood,they are increasing it.
Meanwhile, new polls show American support for Congress at rock bottom, with Americans indeed, holding Democrats as well as Republicans responsible for either failing to move on Iraq in either direction, the immigration fiasco, and the rightful observation that corruption and a Business As Usual attitude, even under new Democrat masters, prevails in Washington.
              Vitter consorts with a prostitute,impinging upon alleged Republican ''family values''. Another three thousand Congolese women and children are murdered with American arms used by tribal clans, impinging upon the very essance of what is ''liberalism''.I leave it to the studio audience to determine which of these is the more damaging.
         

Republicans get in deeper trouble because of they are more prone to hypocracy..partly b/c of the party's moral platform. I recognize politicians in both parties have skeletons in their closet...but I'm sure most congressmen in both are trying to honestly do their job. Going back and forth btw who is more decent is childish..any adult should know better.

It is really surprising to me how low the citizens of the good old USA have sunken. Let's hold everyone else to a standard you don't live up to. I willing to bet everyone of you have something in your life you're not proud of.  Have any of you bother to find out when this event took place or why only now after so many years it has become prevalent?  This has nothing to do with you or I, it only affects his family and his wife has forgiven him and that's all that matters.  It doesn't matter if he's a Republican or Democrat. The only reason this is a issue now is because David Vitter stood up against the idiots in Congress and helped defeat Kennedy's Illegal Alien bill.  That's right, Vitter pissed on the Democrat's camp fire and now he's gonna pay.  Well thank God only Louisiana gets to decide if he goes or not with our votes and not what the rest of the USA thinks. Just like the people of New Orleans thought it was OK to re-elect Jefferson and Nagin.  They have to live with those elected officials not you.  That's America, we have the best politicians money can buy. If you don't believe it, just look at all the vote buying money flooding into Washington DC.  So everyone get off their moral high horses and look at your own elected officials. Don't like what you see, vote them out.  But it's crystal clear that Americans like to be screwed because look at how they vote. Enough said.

Republicans promise to be better and more ethical than Democrats, they have no right to point at Dems and say they aren't any worse.  You don't buy a Mercedes because the ad says it's just as good as a Hyundai, you buy it because it claims to be better.  Otherwise the consumer has every right to be mad because he's bought something the seller can't or has no intention of delivering.  That's deception.  As for claims that the GOP cleanses itself of problems, what about Tom Delay, Jack Abramoff, even Foley who was warned about his behavior with pages years before the news became public?  At least they have these issues all behind them.  Except of course for Rep. Jerry Lewis and a whole slew of Bush administration scandals that they're attempting to hide through misuse of executive privilege.  Do both houses have problems?  Sure, but don't try to cover your own by pretending yours don't exist or whining that the other guy is just as bad...when you've claimed to be better.  

Yep, Clinton and Viter both have/had a problem.  Big difference, Vitter was never under oath to tell the truth.  Who cares what the Dems think, stay in office because the nut gov. of LA would appoint trash bag replacement.

I wonder what was going through Vitter's mind that day his wife said that she would cut off his genitals if she were to catch him behaving as Bill Clinton did. And Hannity is simply trying to expedite the removal of a huge public relations problem for the holy republican party. They are really turning into the gang that can't shoot straight. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of folks.

Republican Forever said "Reps aren't perfect at this stuff, but at least we try."  

You try to be ethical (I am being generous) and fail; suceeding is the exception. We don't need to try, ethical behavior comes naturally; failing is the exception.  Where is my proof? Same place yours came from.

RF says: We don't need to try, ethical behavior comes naturally


You're very funny. You should do standup.  

It is very funny reading the entries on this blog.  You essentially have the conservatives throwing their Senator to the wolves, but even that doesn't seem to be good enough for the liberals.  The liberals seem to be saying that they are better and would never get into the messes people like Vitter is in.  

Are they foolish, stupid, or in denial?

Why should Vitter resign, when the liberals never do. Not even a killer (Kennedy) or a rapist (Clinton) or a lier.  Not even a senator (Frank) that ran a whore house from his apartment Hang in there David, the liberals will get caught soon. T

As far as I know Vitter had his fun before he was Senator - Sean Hannity is just a NeoCon hack

its the medias fault that vitter got caught.Thats what wicked wendy said.Who really cares---about the sex but I thought prostitution was illegal.The johns name goes into my hometown paper when the get arrested by cops in drag.

Taureau- I don't remember Kennedy's conviciton on murder charges, nor Clinton's conviciton for rape. and I'm sure you didn't mean to use the word 'liar' right now.   It's the HYPOCRISY, dim-witt!

That's the deal with libbies.  Unless a court tells them something is true, then they don't believe it.  They're kind of wired that way.

juan,I think we need more math people that can solve differential equations. Thanks for your posts.

That's the deal with conservatives.  If Rush and Sean tells them something is true then they believe it.  Even if it's been thrown out of court and/or repeatedly debunked.  They're kind of wired that way.

It is the Bush White House that has said if you are not arrested and convicted then no crime was committed. They are just wired that way.

If Limbaugh and Hannity are attacking one of their own there has to be an ulterior motive beyond ethics and morals.  I suspect they're both feeling the affects of the political malaise that's setting in with Republicans and Democrats at a stalemate in Washington.  Sen Vitters resigning would put the Democrat Governor of Louisiana in the position of choosing the replacement which, no doubt, would be a Democrat.

Scumbags like Limbaugh and Hannity know how to generate ratings.  If more folks realized that and spent a little more time researching politics instead of glueing themselves to talk radio, they'd be able to make more educated decisions.  We might not have the inbred crop of incompetent leaders [Bushes, Clintons et al] we have today.

Juan: "Furthermore, you jerk, we are an immigrant nation.. check your family tree and see where your ancestors came from."

WE are? No, I was born here. As were my parents, and their parents. To carry the title of "immigrant" for more than a generation or two is to make everyone in the world an immigrant in some sense, which means no one has a true home. Speak for yourself, sir; I am no immigrant. I am an American.

If Limbaugh and Hannity are attacking one of their own there has to be an ulterior motive beyond ethics and morals.


Not at all.  Vitter needs help, and lots of it.

And, go to your window.  The black helicopters are approaching.


"Limbaugh and Hannity know how to generate ratings."

Yes they do.  Unlike liberal talk radio . . . .

But it's not just that Vitter is a self-righteous Republican hypocrite...  The state he represents has more than it's fair share of corrupt and crooked politicians.  How many of Louisiana's past governors, congressmen, and senators been convicted or investigated for criminal activities?  Larceny, embezzlement, coersion, bribery...  The list goes on and on. And until significant political reform is passed in this state and in this country, nothing will change.  It's about money and nothing more.  People who are elected into public office should be held accountable and subject to the same consequences as anyone else who breaks the law.  Which is funny, considering that this state has one of the highest per capita prison rates in the country, you'd think that Louisiana's tough stance on crime applies to anyone who commits a crime here. Justice here is subjective, not objective.

Message (please, no HTML tags. Web addresses will be hyperlinked):