David Vitter Must Go
by Quin Hillyer
U.S. Sen. David Vitter ought not qualify for re-election later this week. Instead, after serving out his term, he should slink away in shame.
Far too little attention has been paid to new revelations that the senator retained a legislative aide even after learning the aide attacked a girlfriend with a knife and held her against her will for 90 minutes. It turns out the aide has a record of brushes with the law dating back to the 1990s, a record the senator should easily have discovered once he was apprised of the knifing incident in 2008. Yet Vitter not only kept the aide on his staff, but also assigned this abuser of women to handle women's issues.
Even for somebody with Vitter's dodgy record, this abrogation of judgment defies belief. To understand the frightening nature of aide Brent Furer's attack on girlfriend Nicolia Demopoulos, consider these lines from the June 23 report by ABC News in breaking the story:
The two returned to Furer's Capitol Hill apartment, the report says. Furer "would not let her leave." He "pulled on her coat, which caused it to rip," then "pulled out a knife and stabbed [her] in the hand." ... He smashed her phone when she tried to call 911, the records say, and he shoved her to the floor when she tried to leave, then held his hand over her mouth and threw her on a bed. ... Furer "grabbed an unknown object and held it under her neck. The suspect asked the complainant, 'Do you want to die?' ... After a 90-minute standoff, Furer made her promise not to call police, and then allowed her to leave. She fled to a friend's house, and was taken by ambulance to the hospital. A slash on her chin took eight stitches to close, the police report says.
Furer already had an arrest record — three DUIs and a cocaine possession arrest. Another time, during a road-rage incident, he hit a motorcyclist with his SUV, breaking the man's leg. Still, Vitter kept him on staff.
Vitter thus far has survived his infamous ties to the "D.C. Madam," along with credible accusations of earlier assignations with at least one other call girl. Supporters apparently forgave his moral lapse — and overlooked the fact that paying prostitutes is a crime. Nobody should be in the Senate drafting laws if he is unwilling to abide by them.
In another incident, just last year, Vitter showed his true colors at Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., reportedly yelling at an airport worker when told he was late for a plane, pushing open the security door, and (according to one report) "invok[ing] his standing as a senator, delivering a 'do-you-know-who-I-am' tirade."
Vitter's explosive temper is legendary. His former legislative colleagues long ago dubbed him "Bitter Vitter." He once lost a lawsuit arising out of a 1993 town hall meeting in which a local Republican activist said Vitter became enraged at her question, pushed aside chairs to confront her, and seized her tape recorder.
For the GOP, the stakes are high. Vitter is an unstable element waiting to go fissile, an embarrassment to his state and his party. Republicans would be in a bind if he attracts no significant primary opponent and then implodes. By rights, he should not run — or GOP leaders should pressure him to defer to another candidate. Otherwise, when Democrats highlight the dangerously abusive aide and Vitter's other serious character flaws, Louisiana's sole Republican Senate seat will be as imperiled as a throat held at knifepoint.
New Orleans native Quin Hillyer, a former state chair of the Louisiana Young Republicans, is a former managing editor of Gambit and now an award-winning opinion writer for The Washington Times and The American Spectator.
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What an unctuous hypocrite! Isn't he the one who wanted to have diapers put on him during his sex antics? ew You'd think after those revelations he would've slunk away like the sleaze he is.
I can't stand him and I am enraged every time I get one of his canned phone calls...especially since I've asked repeatedly that they take me off the list.
Every time I see that doofus David Vitter's photo in the news, it makes me want to puke - always has that pretty-boy smirky face that says, "Look at me. I can get away with just about anything because I"m a right wing Republican from Louisiana. I can whore-hop, and lie, and beg forgiveness better than Jimmy Swaggert. I'm invincible. Oh, and don't ever get in my way at the airport , or ask me a question about anything about my past, or dare to question my morals!
THE THREE OF YOU ARE THE SAME KIND OF
LIMPWRISTED WEAK KNEED LIBERALS WHO PUT
HUSSEIN IN OFFICE AND STILL THINK JIMMY
CARTER WAS ONE OF OUR BEST PRESIDENTS.
I NEVER HEARD A WORD FROM YOU WHEN CLINTON
WAS DOING MONICA IN THE OVAL OFFICE. OR,
WHEN BILL AND HILLARY'S ASSOCIATES AND
ENEMIES KEPT TURNING UP DEAD!! IT IS OBVIOUS
THAT YOU DON'T LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES OR LIVE
BY THE CHRISTIAN TENETS. JUDGE NOT LEST YOU
BE JUDGED. I HAVE NOT JUDGED YOU OR THE
AUTHOR. I HAVE JUST OBSERVED YOUR IGNORANCE.
IN GOD WE TRUST, ALL OTHERS ARE
VIEWED WITH A JAUNDICED EYE!!
Ah, it's obvious that you don't live by Christian tenants either. I know many Republicans who hate Vitter, because he is a two faced lying hypocrite. He doesn't get along with people in his own party, he protects a guy who should have been in jail. What if that was your daughter, mom, aunt, he did that to? Wouldn't you want him to see justice? This is why I left the Republican party. It is filled with ignorant, white trash hillbillies. I'm not much of a religious man, but the whole do unto is lost with the new Repubs. Also for the record, most of the founding fathers made fun of religious people like you you. Including the new hero Thomas Payne. But this is what the article points out, it doesn't matter what you do in America anymore, as long as you say you are a Christian, reduce the deficit, no new taxes. You are good to go, it doesn't matter that you screw a prostitute, didn't care about the deficit four years ago, or realize that the top ten percent of the rich, and corporations pay less tax then anyone in the middle class, individually. STUDY YOUR HISTORY, AND STOP BEING IGNORANT.
POOR Scubachris'
IT'S AMAZING WHAT NITROGEN NARCOSIS DOES TO THE
HUMAN BRAIN. SOMEHOW IT GIVES THE SUFFERER THE
FEELING OF SUPERIORITY, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME HE
CAN'T FIND HIS AZZ WITH BOTH HANDS !! YOU REALLY
SHOULD CONSIDER GOING INTO POLITICS. YOU'D FIT
RIGHT IN WITH DOS DUM DEMS.
09/05/10
MR. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA 11. , PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES
MR. JOSEPH R. BIDEN Jr., VICE PRESIDENT OF U.S., AND PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE OF U.S.,
MR. ERIC HOLDER, ATTORNEY GENERAL, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.,
MR. JOHN G. ROBERTS, JR., CHIEF JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT OF THE U.S.,
MR. LEON PANETTA, DIRECTOR, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.,
MR. ROBERT S. MUELLER, 111., DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.
DEAR PEOPLE:
MR. BOBBY JINDAL, GOVERNOR STATE OF LOUISIANA.
SENATOR DAVID VITTER._,
SENATOR MARY L. LANDRIEU._,
CONGRESSMAN CHARLES W. BOUSTANY Jr. _,
“IN THOSE DAYS WOMEN AND MEN VALUED COURAGE AND INTEGRITY ABOVE POWER AND PROFIT.”, DO YOU REMEMBER THIS?
“FEDERAL PRISONS, DO NOT DISCRIMINATE, DIFFERENTIATE OR DISTINGUISH AND HAVE PLENTY ROOM” DID YOU KNEW THIS?
AT LEAST SHOW A LITTLE RESPECT AND DIGNITY TO THE SOCIETY, AND PUT ME BEHIND BARS, OR, ARE YOU SCARED TO DO IT ??????? JUST IS A MATTER OF TIME, THAT FEDERALS AGENCIES THAT ENFORCE THE LAW, SHOW YOU WHAT MEANS: TRUTH-HONOR. MORE THAN FOUR MONTHS AGO, SINCE THE LAST DAY 04/29/10, WHEN I CALLED THE POLICE FROM THE CRIMINALS OFFICE, I HAVE BEEN WALKING ON THE STREETS OF LAKE CHARLES, SUFFERING ALL KIND OF HEALTH AND PHYSICAL PROBLEMS, WITHOUT MEDICINE, MEDICAL CARE AND MONEY, MY ONLY MISTAKE WAS TO HIRED A CRIMINALS WITH DISGUISE OF LAWYERS.
TALKING ABOUT OF: “THE OFFOSHORE DRILLING MORATORIUM”
I AM REALLY SO SORRY, WITH ALL THE DUE RESPECT THAT YOU DESERVE, THERE IS NOT NOTHING WRONG OR SAD, IN THE WAY OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, HAVE BEEN MANAGING THIS MATTER..__ THE JUST AND ONLY SIMPLE AND VERY IMPORTANT THING, THAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WANT TO DO, IS: TO ENSURE, GUARANTEE AND MAKE CERTAIN 100 %, THAT THE HUMANKIND DO NOT HAVE IN THE FUTURE ANOTHER PROBLEM LIKE AS, DEEPWATER HORIZON, THE WORST MARITIME OIL SPILL IN HISTORY.__ YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT THIS PROBLEM WAS FULL AND TOTALLY BEYOND OF THE LATEST CUTTING EDGE KNOWLEDGE OF SCIENCE AND
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY OF THE WHOLE HUMANITY.__ AND IN THAT TIME THE MOTHER NATURE WAS SO FAR A LOT VERY GENEROUS AND MERCIFUL WITH THE WHOLE HUMANKIND, MAYBE THERE IS NOT A SECOND CHANCE.
THE ONLY THING, THAT IT IS REALLY TOTALLY VERY WRONG, SAD AND VERY DEPRESING, IS YOU IGNORANCE AND: THE FULL AND TOTALLY INCOMPETENCE, INEPTITUDE AND IRRESPONSIBILITY TO PERFORM YOUR JOB, AND: YOUR “VERY SO FAR EFFICIENT AND PROFESSIONAL, ETHICAL AND MORAL SUPERVISION ON YOUR TEAMWORK”: MR. JAMES D. “BUDDY” CALDWELL, ATTORNEY GENERAL, STATE OF LOUISIANA. AND, MADAM , CATHERINE D. KIMBALL, CHIEF JUSTICE, LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT.
ARE YOU GOING TO CONTINUE PROCTECTING, SUPPORTING AND SUSTAINING THE ALREADY SO FAR MULTI-BILLONAIRE BUSINESS OF
THE WORST AND MOST DANGEROUS APOCALYTIC PANDEMIC OF GANGS AND MAFIAS OF CRIMINALS????????????LIKE AS:
BAGGETT MaCALL, BURGESS, WATSON & GAUGHAN, L. L. C., and their dear acquaintances, associates and friends: LOUISIANA ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD, and LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS.
THE No. 1 ENEMIES OF OUR SOCIETY, AND THE No.1 KILLERS OF OUR MOST PRIZED AND VALUABLE TREASURE:
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WITHOUT JUSTICE ANY KIND OF EFFORTS TO MOVE FORWARD BY OUR SOCIETY, IS TOTALLY WORTHLESS.
KIND REGARDS RAMON AGUILAR.
09/05/10
MR. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA 11. , PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES
MR. JOSEPH R. BIDEN Jr., VICE PRESIDENT OF U.S., AND PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE OF U.S.,
MR. ERIC HOLDER, ATTORNEY GENERAL, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.,
MR. JOHN G. ROBERTS, JR., CHIEF JUSTICE, SUPREME COURT OF THE U.S.,
MR. LEON PANETTA, DIRECTOR, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.,
MR. ROBERT S. MUELLER, 111., DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.
DEAR PEOPLE:
MR. BOBBY JINDAL, GOVERNOR STATE OF LOUISIANA.
SENATOR DAVID VITTER._,
SENATOR MARY L. LANDRIEU._,
CONGRESSMAN CHARLES W. BOUSTANY Jr. _,
“IN THOSE DAYS WOMEN AND MEN VALUED COURAGE AND INTEGRITY ABOVE POWER AND PROFIT.”, DO YOU REMEMBER THIS?
“FEDERAL PRISONS, DO NOT DISCRIMINATE, DIFFERENTIATE OR DISTINGUISH AND HAVE PLENTY ROOM” DID YOU KNEW THIS?
AT LEAST SHOW A LITTLE RESPECT AND DIGNITY TO THE SOCIETY, AND PUT ME BEHIND BARS, OR, ARE YOU SCARED TO DO IT ??????? JUST IS A MATTER OF TIME, THAT FEDERALS AGENCIES THAT ENFORCE THE LAW, SHOW YOU WHAT MEANS: TRUTH-HONOR. MORE THAN FOUR MONTHS AGO, SINCE THE LAST DAY 04/29/10, WHEN I CALLED THE POLICE FROM THE CRIMINALS OFFICE, I HAVE BEEN WALKING ON THE STREETS OF LAKE CHARLES, SUFFERING ALL KIND OF HEALTH AND PHYSICAL PROBLEMS, WITHOUT MEDICINE, MEDICAL CARE AND MONEY, MY ONLY MISTAKE WAS TO HIRED A CRIMINALS WITH DISGUISE OF LAWYERS.
TALKING ABOUT OF: “THE OFFOSHORE DRILLING MORATORIUM”
I AM REALLY SO SORRY, WITH ALL THE DUE RESPECT THAT YOU DESERVE, THERE IS NOT NOTHING WRONG OR SAD, IN THE WAY OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, HAVE BEEN MANAGING THIS MATTER..__ THE JUST AND ONLY SIMPLE AND VERY IMPORTANT THING, THAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WANT TO DO, IS: TO ENSURE, GUARANTEE AND MAKE CERTAIN 100 %, THAT THE HUMANKIND DO NOT HAVE IN THE FUTURE ANOTHER PROBLEM LIKE AS, DEEPWATER HORIZON, THE WORST MARITIME OIL SPILL IN HISTORY.__ YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT THIS PROBLEM WAS FULL AND TOTALLY BEYOND OF THE LATEST CUTTING EDGE KNOWLEDGE OF SCIENCE AND
ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY OF THE WHOLE HUMANITY.__ AND IN THAT TIME THE MOTHER NATURE WAS SO FAR A LOT VERY GENEROUS AND MERCIFUL WITH THE WHOLE HUMANKIND, MAYBE THERE IS NOT A SECOND CHANCE.
THE ONLY THING, THAT IT IS REALLY TOTALLY VERY WRONG, SAD AND VERY DEPRESING, IS YOU IGNORANCE AND: THE FULL AND TOTALLY INCOMPETENCE, INEPTITUDE AND IRRESPONSIBILITY TO PERFORM YOUR JOB, AND: YOUR “VERY SO FAR EFFICIENT AND PROFESSIONAL, ETHICAL AND MORAL SUPERVISION ON YOUR TEAMWORK”: MR. JAMES D. “BUDDY” CALDWELL, ATTORNEY GENERAL, STATE OF LOUISIANA. AND, MADAM , CATHERINE D. KIMBALL, CHIEF JUSTICE, LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT.
ARE YOU GOING TO CONTINUE PROCTECTING, SUPPORTING AND SUSTAINING THE ALREADY SO FAR MULTI-BILLONAIRE BUSINESS OF
THE WORST AND MOST DANGEROUS APOCALYTIC PANDEMIC OF GANGS AND MAFIAS OF CRIMINALS????????????LIKE AS:
BAGGETT MaCALL, BURGESS, WATSON & GAUGHAN, L. L. C., and their dear acquaintances, associates and friends: LOUISIANA ATTORNEY DISCIPLINARY BOARD, and LOUISIANA STATE BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS.
THE No. 1 ENEMIES OF OUR SOCIETY, AND THE No.1 KILLERS OF OUR MOST PRIZED AND VALUABLE TREASURE:
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WITHOUT JUSTICE ANY KIND OF EFFORTS TO MOVE FORWARD BY OUR SOCIETY, IS TOTALLY WORTHLESS.
KIND REGARDS RAMON AGUILAR.
