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thehill.com - 11/20/2009

Vitter predicts Reid will get exactly 60 votes on first health test

— thehill.com — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will get exactly the 60 votes he needs to pass healthcare... reform legislation through its first test tomorrow, Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) said Friday. Reid on Thursday scheduled a cloture vote on a motion to ... (more) Vitter predicts Reid will get exactly 60 votes on first ...

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youtube.com - 11/18/2009

David Vitter doesn't know if Loving was decided correctly (video)

— youtube.com — After having very little to say beyond, "The Senator believes judges should follow the law and not... legislate from the bench" when asked about the r... (more) David Vitter doesn't know if Loving was decided ...

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wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 11/25/2009

ClimateGate: Vitter Staffer Accuses Researchers Of ‘Greatest Act Of Scientific Fraud In History’

— wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — Embracing the fevered speculations of right-wing bloggers, a top Republican Senate staffer has accused climate scientists of... orchestrating a planetwide conspiracy to convince the public that global warming is real. In an error-ridden email acquired ... (more) ClimateGate: Vitter Staffer Accuses Researchers Of ...

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Senator not sure on interracial marriage. Senator Vitter doesn’t know if Loving was correctly decided. (oh, the irony) http://bit.ly/18jtsJ 11/20/2009

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Sen. Vitter doesn’t know if Loving v. Virginia was a correct decision: ‘I haven’t read the case’
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... For quite some time, the press, including Mike Stark of The Stark Report, have been trying to get Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) to give a comment about the racist Hammond, Louisiana Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell, who refused to marry an interracial couple. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and Sen. Mary Landrieu were quick to condemn Bardwell (who said he wasn’t racist because ...

Senator Vitter doesn't even know what the Loving v. Virginia case is
AMERICAblog News — More amazing video from the fearless Mike Stark. Just a couple weeks ago, a Louisiana Justice of the Peace refused to marry an interracial couple. That was a huge news story. And, it evoked a lot of discussion about the 1967 United States Supreme Court ruling in Loving v. Virginia, which found that laws banning interracial marriages were unconstitutional. A couple weeks ago, Louisiana's Senator David Vitter, the hooker loving Republican, wouldn't comment on the Justice of the Peace scandal to Mike Stark. Today, Vitter claimed he didn't even know ...

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Grasping Reality with a Ten-Foot-Long Flexible Trunk — ... New Castro, Same Cuba | Human Rights Watch Chris Berry: Adam Smith Mike Stark: Senator Vitter doesn’t know if Loving was correctly decided ...

Friday Open Thread
Delaware Liberal — It’s Friday! It’s the day you’ve been waiting all week to arrive. Not only is it Friday but it’s also open thread time. It’s almost too much excitement! All I can say about this is that David Vitter should be target #1 for national Democrats in the Senate. This is absolutely unbelievable: Vitter graduated Tulane Law School in 1988. Loving v. Virginia, decided in 1967, was a unanimous Supreme Court decision that declared state anti-miscegenation (interracial marriage) laws unconstitutional. It is one of the bedrock civil rights cases, right up there with Brown. It is simply not ...