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TPM: In that spirit, take a look at this new Web video from Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), attacking his potential opponent Charlie Melancon, a Blue Dog Democratic Congressman, for raising money in Massachusetts. It's entitled "Liberal LuvFest."

And speaking of love-fests and people doling out cash...David Vitter was identified in 2007 as having slept with prostitutes, and admitted to an unspecified "serious sin."  http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/david-vitter-attacks-someone-else-for-luvfest.php?ref=fpb

While former Rep. Chip Pickering of Mississippi allegedly carried on an extramarital affair with Elizabeth Creekmore Byrd, he recorded details of his exploits in a secret diary, including the dates and locations of his adulterous encounters. Pickering, a Republican, described several assignations he had with Creekmore Byrd inside the C Street House, a Capitol Hill townhouse inhabited by an all-male group of right-wing Republican congressmen belonging to The Fellowship, an evangelical group.

Thanks to heavily politicized local courts and an aggressive damage-control campaign waged by Pickering and his powerful Republican allies, the diary, which contains the answers to these questions, is locked away in a courtroom in Mississippi. And if Pickering has his way, it will stay there indefinitely.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-23/the-secret-gop-sex-diary/?cid=bsa:archive9

Daily Beast: What are you doing for your family's summer vacation? Shirley Phelps-Roper decided to take her two daughters to New York City from Topeka, Kansas. To protest outside Walter Cronkite's funeral yesterday. They even had a fancy sign made up that said "Cronkite in Hell."

"He's in hell right now," eagerly explains 23-year-old Megan, as mourners entered St. Bartholomew's Church across Park Avenue. Her mom told me that Cronkite "had a platform to influence people in the right direction and he failed to do that. He chose to worship the flag and not God." Also, he was a "fag-lover." It says it right there on their press release: "We protest all this holy Cronkite worship. He was no hero to God. On his Cronkite Watch, America was surrendered to the fag-agenda. Ergo, Cronkite is now in Hell. And that's the way it is. God hates Cronkite. "

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-23/family-of-hate/?cid=bsa:mostpopular2

Ohio Republican John Adams has re-introduced a bill that would make it illegal for a woman to get an abortion without the written consent of the biological father:"There needs to be responsibility for actions," Adams said. "As someone who is pro-life, this is also an attempt and a hope to keep the two people who have created that child together, and I suppose if you just go back to the simple beginning, there is merit to chastity, and to young men and women waiting until marriage." Finally, there appears to be nothing in this bill requiring the man to take care of the mother or the child once they've forced her to bear their child.     http://crooksandliars.com/

It ain't necessarily so

It ain't necessarily so

De things dat yo' liable to hear on de Cable

It ain't necessarily so

They aint fair and balanced oh my

They aint tryin to be balanced

Fathead Dobbs fights the truth for ratings and scents

Til he makes us all so incensed

Oh Barack he was not born in Hawaii

Oh Barack was not born in this country

Fathead and sean might have you believe the worse

Contravening a Certificate of Live Birth

Saddam had all those big bad weapons

Iraq was workin on great big nukes

Dickyc says we are all about to die

He'd tell ya all but for national security 

It ain't necessarily so

It ain't necessarily so

Dey tell all you chillun de govment's the villain

But 'taint necessarily so

To get to the high place on C-sTreet

Feign to live clean, don' have no fault

Oh I takes their gospel whenever it's pos'ble

But wid a grain of salt

De earth is only around six thousand years

Evilution the devil's play thing

But MIT might quibble and not ever give in

To no political bible thumpin no nothins

I'm preachin' dis sermon to show

It ain't nessa, ain't nessa

Ain't nessa, ain't nessa

It ain't necessarily so

Dont give me no old time religion
those who preach, those who preach it
They Aint necessarily
Livin it one little bit

Hats off to George & Ira Gershwin