Have Louisiana Voters Forgotten David Vitter's Hypocrisy?

Yesterday another oil rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana, although, thankfully-- at least of right now-- there have been no reports of injuries to the rescued workers, though there is uncertainty about how big the oil spill is. Thank God for the safety of the workers, but not the Senate-- whose members continue to take massive legalistic bribes from Big Oil in return for defeating proposals to effectively regulate the industry the way other industrialized nations do. The half dozen sitting senators who have been most steeped in Big Oil corruption? No surprises here:

John McCain (R-AZ)- $2,698,674
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)- $2,138,225
John Cornyn (R-TX)- $1,665,350
Jim Inhofe (R-OK)- $1,231,523
Mitch McConnell (R-KY)- $863,011
David Vitter (R-LA)- $845,035

And this year Big Oil have put their biggest bets on two of their most loyal shills, who will always fight for their interests even if it's deadly for their own constituents:

Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)- $404,150
David Vitter (R-LA)- $303,800

Both Vitter and his pals at Houston-based Mariner Energy have been shrieking-- as late as Wednesday-- that Obama is trying to break us by imposing a moratorium on deep-water drilling while safety concerns and lax industry standards are being addressed. Vitter has been the mouthpiece for Big Oil in the Senate since he was first elected. Typical: "As I stated, there is no one more environmentally devastated by this oil disaster than the people of the Gulf Coast. It’s our coast, our marshes, and our way of life that is being impacted. However, despite the ongoing oil spill disaster, the great majority of Gulf Coast citizens feel strongly that the administration’s deep-water moratorium is a major mistake. Simply put, it will cost us more jobs and economic devastation than the oil spill itself." Also untrue:

[T]he worst of those forecasts has failed to materialize, as companies wait to see how long the moratorium will last before making critical decisions on spending cuts and layoffs. Unemployment claims related to the oil industry along the Gulf Coast have been in the hundreds, not the thousands, and while oil production from the gulf is down because of the drilling halt, supplies from the region are expected to rebound in future years.

Vitter, of course, will go to any lengths to get the public to think of anything other than his ethics and morals problems, which is exactly what we want to ask Louisiana voters to contemplate for a moment. And this should help: