Sex and the senator

I've said it before, Vitter should step down. How do we know Vitter wasn't getting strings pulled to keep Palfrey's illegal business running?

I trust Governor Bobby Jindal's judgement to provide a replacement. Too bad we can't just get Bobby Jindal, who has done more in a few months to clean up Louisiana than his predecessors have done in decades.

The Family Values Party aka the Republican Party, gave Vitter a standing ovation when he returned to the Senate following his press conference where he admitted to patronizing prostitutes.

That "Family Values Party" BS that the GOPer's are trying to sell America is null and void.
http://www.hillbillyreport.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/07/12/vitterdiaper_2.jpg

The look on that woman's face should make anyone sad. Whether it's Vitter or Spitzer or whoever, one would hope that the putz will will do the right thing.

How would you like to be that poor woman standing there enduring it, in public.

Hey, Jeff, as far as the new Governor, a Republican, getting more things done, it helps to have a Republican administration, as inept as it is, in Washington!! This Republican administration should hang its head in shame, for the " inept ", for want of a better word, handling of the tragedy in Louisiana!!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE. NOW.

Don Fitzgerald, sorry but Louisiana government has been corrupt for DECADES! It never made a difference whether a Republican was president or a Democrat. Everyone in the state of Louisiana knew Kathless Blanco was an inept, whiny, incompetent bimbo who couldn't even be a good mayor of a town of 20 people.
Sorry, Don, but the ineptness in Louisiana in regard to Hurricane Katrian began and ends with the incompetence of Blanco and the do-nothing mayor of New Orleans.
But then you probably voted for Boy Stroger and Gov. Blablooeyavich, didn't you???

I don't know what level of education you finished, Don, but Kathleen Blanco was the governor of Louisiana during and for two years after Katrina.

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has been praised by his fellow governors, non-partisan disaster relief organizations and the public at large for his state's response to Katrina. Take a side by side comparison of the reconstruction in Louisiana and that in Mississippi and it should become obvious to you how important good local government really is. I suspect you're a Stroger vote so I'm not going to waste any more of my time on you.

Take a side by side comparison of the reconstruction in Louisiana and that in Mississippi and it should become obvious to you how important good local government really is. I suspect you're a Stroger vote so I'm not going to waste any more of my time on you.

Posted by: Jeff | April 7, 2008 2:59 PM

You're doin' a "heckuva job", college Republican Jeffy!!

http://photobucket.com/mediadetail/?media=http%3A%2F%2Fi181.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fx109%2Fcoloradothunderstorm%2FBush.jpg&searchTerm=hurricane%20katrina&pageOffset=4

Jeff-

I should have known you were a believer in the "Mississippi Miracle" Unforrtunately, it is a fraud, Mississippi isn't doing any better than Louisiana.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/05/25/mississippi/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/24/AR2007112400616.html

And if you think taking money appropriated for rebuilding homes, and using it to help expand private businesses, including a casino, is "good local government" then you ...well, you're a Republican.

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008801260337

Lefty Luke, I didn't mean to imply that Mississippi is entirely recovered and not in need of reconstruction. No one questions that it is and more needs to be done, but even a rabid-at-the-mouth lefty like yourself has to realize it is quantum leaps ahead of the mess that is Louisiana.

Unlike you I travel to the Gulf Coast at least twice a year and I can personally attest that next to nothing has been rebuilt in the New Orleans area.
FEMA tarps still cover houses and windows are still boarded up in downtown high-rises.

Mississippi, on the other hand, has scads of new homes and while there are certainly people angry that the riverboats and casinos got rebuilt more quickly than their homes, there's a very good reason these places got the priority they received. Like it or not, gambling is a huge engine of local and state government revenue in both Louisiana and Mississippi.

With today's economy the ONLY things thriving in New Orleans right now are the vice industries. Harrah's is doing bang-up business downtown and it seems like there are more strip clubs than bars on Bourbon street these days. When I went there last January there were more drug-related murders than there were days of the year. If that's not an indictment of the Ray Nagin administration then I don't know what is.

The point is, the quicker these casinos get back on their feet the more they'll contribute to the general coffers of the state and the more quickly the state can offer assistance to homeowners and other people trying to rebuild their lives.
Go to New Orleans and walk through the lower 9th Ward and THEN try to tell me that the way they're distributing the federal disaster relief money the state received is better than Mississippi's, and then you can try to lecture me. If you don't get shot and killed trying, that is.

Whether you like it or not, that is an excellent strategy for rebuilding a hurricane-ravaged state.

p.s. If you're so against gambling as a state government revenue stream please tell that to democrats Richie Daley and Blago. They'd put a casino right here in Chicago.

Rabid right Jeffery-

Facts figures and links please.

"While Gov. Haley Barbour (R) has hailed the casino openings as a harbinger of Mississippi's resurgence and developers have proposed more than $1 billion in beachfront condos and hotels for tourists, fewer than one in 10 of the thousands of single-family houses destroyed in Biloxi are being rebuilt, according to city permit records. More than 10,000 displaced families still live in trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. ."

Fewer than one in ten homes Jeffy. That's hardly scads in my book.

Neither Missippi or Louisiana are recovering sufficiently. Their situations remain almost identically bad. Both parties are to blame. I know you are incapable of gettinging beyound your intense partisanship, but those are the facts. Haley Barbour and the Republican Party have nothing to be proud of in their feeble recovery efforts, nor do the Democrats in Louisiana.

Jeff, I hope someday you grow up enought to shed the partisan hero worship and learn to see reality. I really do.

(BTW I think the Chicago casino idea is simply terrible, Democratic sponsored or not)

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/5676210.html

So it's the whole state government that's corrupt? Funny, republicans wet themselves trying to blame everything that went wrong after Katrina on Democrats, after the White House intentionally & spectacularly blew-it. And comparing New Orleans alone to Mississippi & their level of death & destruction is about as equal as comparing Obama's & Bush's college grades.

Of course they're not, Luke, have you looked around lately? The housing market's in the tank in this country. Nothing's being built, let alone beachfront condos in a hurricane flood plain (stupid idea no matter what the market's like).

Here's some facts and figures that you crave. More than 27,000 people have moved back to Mississipi since the hurricane. That's more than half that left (47,000). Nearly half of Louisiana's population is still gone.

As of March 31, 2008, 8,624 temporary housing units (travel trailers and mobile homes) are in service. More than 34,000 units have been deactivated. Less than 9,000 trailers! There's more than that in the New Orleans area alone.

This isn't to say Louisiana isn't trying or that the things going on in their city aren't related to the inadequate FEMA response. They are. But to suggest that Louisiana didn't have a thoroughly corrupt political culture (republican and democrat) that awarded nepotism and bloc voting over true democracy is to miss the forest for the trees. Except for Chicago and Illinois you'd be hardpressed to find a city and state that were a bigger political mess than Louisiana BEFORE the hurricane and Bobby Jindal's the only hope of cleaning the place up now. His reforms are forcing Louisiana to come into the 21st century. They've been needed for a long time.

Jeff-

Your partisan ignorance knows no bounds, does it?

Did it ever occur to your partisan addled brain that comparing total numbers of trailers in use between New Orleans, a major city, and the much smaller towns along the gulf coast is a totally meaningless comparison? Of course you didn't, because reality isn't important to you. If it ever appears that a Republican isn't absolutely perrfect, your mind just can't cope with the thought. You go into overdrive, grasping at any arguement, no matter how silly, to prove that Republicans are perfect.

Just an example:

"More than 27,000 people have moved back to Mississipi since the hurricane. That's more than half that left (47,000). Nearly half of Louisiana's population is still gone."

By the figures you present, 43% of the people of Mississippi haven't returned. "Nearly half" of Louisiana's popoulation hasn't returned. Isn't 43% "Nearly half" as well? You try and spin a difference of a few percentage points into a mojor difference. Twist and spin, anything to protect a Republican.

Oh, and Jeff, you know what the fastest growing counties in the nation are? St. Bernard and New Orleans Parishes.

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/03/st_bernard_nations_fastest_gro.html

And you'll note that New orleans has regained 2/3 of it's pre-Katrina population.

Take the partisan blinders off, and rejoin the real world.

The picture cutline says it al Senator David VitterR Louisiana. When talking about Eliot Spitzer I had to google to find his party the drivebys only use party when its an R. Jerry White, Springfield, IL