DAVID DIAPERS VITTER DOESN'T JUST SPEND MONEY ON HOOKERS... HE ALSO SPENDS OUR MONEY ON PRIMITIVE RELIGIONISTS

One of the biggest perks members of Congress get is the ability to earmark. Under the Culture of Corruption instituted by Tom DeLay and Denny Hastert in the House and Rick Santorum and Bill Frist in the Senate-- with the active connivance of Karl Rove, of course-- members could steal whatever they wanted as long as it wasn't too blatant, in turn for rubber stamping every item on the Bush-Cheney agenda. And then, thanks to the out of control greed of the Jack Abramoffs, Brent Wilkses, Thomas Kontogiannises, Bill Lowerys, Mitchell Wades, etc it got too blatant, seriously blatant. And people have started going to jail-- even under a foot-dragging Justice Department run by Bush's crooked little Attorney General Fredo. But earmarks never go away; the piggies at the trough Inside the Beltway expect to get fed and they have the power to feed themselves. And they do. So why do people get so upset with poor David Diapers Vitter (R-LA)? I mean he wasn't sending earmarks-- as far as we know-- to houses of ill-repute or to diapers manufacturers. All he did was send $100,000 in taxpayers' money to some psychotic religionist group that fights against science. Is that so terrible? Compared to the millions many Republicans-- from Conrad Burns to Denny Hastert to Jerry Lewis to Ted Stevens to John Doolittle... have used to line their own pockets?

Afterall, primitive Bronze Age throwbacks who can be counted about to always vote for Republicans, even ones who like being spanked while they wear diapers, have some rights too. And the cash Vitter was funneling them via the 2008 labor, health and education financing bill gave the so-called Louisiana Family Forum $100 grand to "to develop a plan to promote better science education." Sounds perfectly reasonable, doesn't it? I mean what did those stuffy old Founding Fathers a million years ago know about the importance of teaching religionist doctrine in school anyway? Screw them!
And so what if Vitter has winked and nodded and made sure to surreptitiously see that these fine upstanding-- albeit a little backward and superstitious-- folks got plenty of dough sent their way?

The group's tax-exempt status prohibits the Louisiana Family Forum from political activity, but Vitter has close ties to the group. Dan Richey, the group's grass-roots coordinator, was paid $17,250 as a consultant in Vitter's 2004 Senate race. Records also show that Vitter's campaign employed Beryl Amedee, the education resource council chairwoman for the Louisiana Family Forum.

The group has been an advocate for the senator, who was elected as a strong supporter of conservative social issues. When Vitter's use of a Washington, D.C., call-girl service drew comparisons last month to the arrest of Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, in what an undercover officer said was a solicitation for sex in an airport men's room, Family Forum Executive Director Gene Mills came to Vitter's defense.

In a video clip the group posted on the Internet site YouTube, Mills said the two senators' situations are far different. "Craig is denying the allegations," he said. "Vitter has repented of the allegations. He sought forgiveness, reconciliation and counseling."

The Louisiana Family Forum tries to make sure the Big Guy in the clouds gets his due in science class. Vitter said the program improves science eduction. "I believe it is an important program," he said. Afterall, if not Vitter and his pals, who would undermine the 1987 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that "threw out a Louisiana law that would have required schools to teach creationist theories, which hold that God created the universe, whenever evolution was taught."

The group's stated mission is to "persuasively present biblical principles in the centers of influence on issues affecting the family through research, communication and networking." Until recently, its Web site contained a "battle plan to combat evolution," which called the theory a "dangerous" concept that "has no place in the classroom." The document was removed after a reporter's inquiry.