# Family-values Pub senator caught up in DC Madam scandal **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 11, 2007, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385 "2007-07-11T17:07:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/21 "2007-07-11T18:49:08Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Because merely _procuring_ whores is ever so much more upstanding than fucking them yourself. [/QUOTE] I read somewhere that, in addition to his other distinctions, Cheney had hoped to be remembered as the “…pimpinest Vice President in history.” ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/22 "2007-07-11T18:49:39Z")
It gets better: The [Canal Street Madam](http://www.nbc4.com/politics/13661627/detail.html) from New Orleans is also now claiming Vitter was a client. Schadenfreudelicious indeed, especially considering that Vitter used to be my congressman! ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/23 "2007-07-11T18:52:57Z")
[QUOTE=BobLibDem] …and do the deed in a very dark room so his face would not be seen. [/QUOTE] I figured this part went without saying. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/24 "2007-07-11T18:56:11Z")
So how many government employees does a whore have to screw to make prostitution legal, fer chrissakes? ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/25 "2007-07-11T19:00:43Z")
[QUOTE=Cat Fight] So how many government employees does a whore have to screw to make prostitution legal, fer chrissakes? [/QUOTE] Judging by what we’re seeing, apparently all of them. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/26 "2007-07-11T19:09:26Z")
[QUOTE=Mama Tiger] It gets better: The [Canal Street Madam](http://www.nbc4.com/politics/13661627/detail.html) from New Orleans is also now claiming Vitter was a client. Schadenfreudelicious indeed, especially considering that Vitter used to be my congressman! [/QUOTE] And is now your senator. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Call_Me_Shirley)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/27 "2007-07-11T19:30:38Z")
And David Vitter is the guy who replaced Bob Livingston in the House after Livingston was forced to resign because of a sex scandal exposed by Larry Flynt! I can’t believe Vitter hasn’t gone to rehab yet. Didn’t he read the script? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/28 "2007-07-11T19:31:02Z")
[QUOTE=Trion] Republicans have always been pro-business. Things are so much better when you leave them to the invisible hand of the market. 😃 [/QUOTE] How much does an invisible handjob of the market go for these days? ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/29 "2007-07-11T19:43:32Z")
Delicious. What goes around, comes around, you waste of genetic material. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/30 "2007-07-11T19:51:03Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Heard something in passing about the good Senator’s wife had threatened to go all Bobick on him and truncate his Cheney if he misbehaved. Anybody got a reference on that? [QUOTE=Kimstu] It’s in the OP’s first link: [/QUOTE] At this juncture, Vitter might want to consider the wisdom of spending a little time away from his family. Maybe go on retreat. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/31 "2007-07-11T20:01:12Z")
[QUOTE=Trion] Things are so much better when you leave them to the invisible hand of the market. [/QUOTE] Isn’t the invisible hand that trick where you lie down with your shoulder at a weird angle so your arm falls asleep and then you masturbate with the numb hand and pretend it’s somebody else? Cheaper than a hooker, at least. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/32 "2007-07-11T20:25:27Z")
The Vitter problem isn’t the solicitation per se, so much as his hypocrisy. If he hadn’t been Mr. Family Values up until now, with his morality all up in people’s business, he could easily recover from being caught with his pants down. Hell, we love that sort of indiscretion in politicians down here in the Swampland. In short, bwahahahahahahahaha. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/33 "2007-07-11T20:29:30Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Isn’t the invisible hand that trick where you lie down with your shoulder at a weird angle so your arm falls asleep and then you masturbate with the numb hand and pretend it’s somebody else? [/QUOTE] I’ve heard that called ‘The Stranger’. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/34 "2007-07-11T20:32:54Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] And is now your senator. [/QUOTE] Fortunately, no; I left Louisiana before he was elected to the Senate – and I never voted for him for the House, either! ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/35 "2007-07-11T21:03:36Z")
(never mind…I was beaten to the punchline) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/36 "2007-07-11T21:18:57Z")
A commentator on NPR – a reporter for the NO _Times-Picayune_ – is saying this pretty much kills Vitter’s chances of being tapped as Giuliani’s running mate (he was one of the first to endorse Giuliani’s presidential candidacy). As for his future in the Senate . . . everyone’s waiting to see how the scandal plays out. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/37 "2007-07-11T21:59:16Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] I wonder, if Cheney availed himself, if he shot anyone in the face. [/QUOTE] Heh. You crack me up. Now I have to go and barf. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/38 "2007-07-11T22:13:14Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] I vaguely recall reading an interview with a prostitute in New York when the Pubbies were holding their convention there, and the prostitute was saying that prostitutes generally preferred Republican conventions because the Dems had sex with each other, the Pubbies preferred to buy from pros. Sounds like she might have been right. [/QUOTE] I recall that too; for the one I read about prostitutes were imported from all over the country when they heard the Republicans were coming. Democrats believe in that wishy-washy “love”, “affection”, and “try to give the other person pleasure” stuff. The Republicans are just users. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/39 "2007-07-11T22:28:42Z")
[QUOTE=elmwood] Well, then, you better not look at [this photo](http://www.poormojo.org/pmjadaily/images/hung_cheney.jpg) (SFW, kinda’) [/QUOTE] Someone save that little red-headed child from Palpatine’s Evil Lumber Log! ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385/40 "2007-07-11T22:46:48Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] I recall that too; for the one I read about prostitutes were imported from all over the country when they heard the Republicans were coming. Democrats believe in that wishy-washy “love”, “affection”, and “try to give the other person pleasure” stuff. The Republicans are just users. [/QUOTE] Interesting, interesting I say! I can’t remember the last term I saw such a fair, balanced, and rational opinion expressed in this forum, I applaud you sir. As for Vitter, last I checked he was a politician from Louisiana, is it actually news when one of them is caught in a scandal at this point? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/family-values-pub-senator-caught-up-in-dc-madam-scandal/411385.md?page=3)