When thin-skinned quasi-senator Dean Heller threw his hissy fit and declared that his opponent was the most corrupt and unethical person he'd ever met, David Vitter must have felt slighted.
During the short, accidental Senate tenure of Dean Heller, he and his wingnut colleague from Louisiana appear to have struck up a close working relationship.
Vitter is also featured on this year's list of most corrupt members of Congress, as compiled by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). This year's dishonor marks the third time Vitter has made the list. In addition to indulging his fetish for wearing diapers with prostitutes (it takes all kinds), Vitter has come under fire for keeping a guy on staff who tried to stab a woman, and trying to bribe a cabinet officer. As CREW executive director Melanie Sloan helpfully explains, "There likely is no senator who has been before the Senate Ethics Committee more often than Sen. Vitter."
And there is no member of Congress who has received more money from Vitter's "Louisiana Reform" leadership PAC in 2012 than Dean Heller -- $10,000 as of Sept. 3 to be specific. That's twice as much as Vitter's PAC has contributed to any other politician in America, according to opensecrets.org.
Oh, well, CREW is just some icky liberal do-goody outfit that hates Republicans, so who cares, right?
Except innocent humans whose eyeballs have been subjected to Dean Heller's campaign commercials are left with the impression that CREW's "Most Corrupt" list is one of America's most sacred founding documents. Heller's campaign is almost entirely built around Shelley Berkley's appearance on CREW's list, albeit Berkley garnered a mere "dishonorable mention," a fact that Heller never honorably mentions because he, too, is probably embarrassed that Nevada -- Nevada! -- can't crack CREW's official top 12 "Most Corrupt" list, like his valued colleague David Vitter has not once, not twice, but three times.
If Dean Heller wants Nevada voters to know anything this election year, it is that earning a dishonorable mention on CREW's list disqualifies Shelley Berkley from being a U.S. Senator. That's the core message of Heller's campaign.
So to recap: Heller is using money provided by a disgraced skank and recurring star of CREW's list to buy ads saying that Berkley can't be in the U.S. Senate because she's on CREW's list. Hypocrite? Or just a Republican? Ha. Trick question obvsly.
Speaking of disgraced skanks, the disgraced skank who more than anyone else is responsible for Heller being in the Senate in the first place, John Ensign, still had $20,000 in his leadership PAC, as of the last reporting period, anyway. In this cycle Ensign has already donated to Mark Amodei, whoever that is, as well as that one weirdo who is always running for something (and always losing) whose dad was a basketball coach. The Hairdo might as well fork over the rest to Heller. He'll take anybody's money.
Enjoyed the article, Gleanster. A lot of good information there about the tangled web of hypocrisy and lies not only Heller, but also the entire Tea/Republican Party seems to be immersed in all the time.
One thing that is inescapable for Heller is that, try as he might, he cannot get away from Wrong Way Romney. No matter how much he tries to muddy the waters, everyone knows they are both Tea/Republicans.
Even though Heller says he's different, and he has suddenly changed his voting habits to sanity to try to prove to the Nevadan voters out here that he is indeed different, HE ISN'T.
It's just before the election. He'll act like a normal guy who cares about Nevada. Only to get voted back in.
Guaranteed that if he is successful and pulls the wool over the voters' eyes out here and gets back in, he'll revert back to obstructionist Tea/Republican Party dude that will be in permanent suck up mode to the rich, the filthy rich and the obscenely rich...all so he can run interference for their corporate greed some more.
No matter how you look at it, and I don't care if people think it's unfair, the down ballot tendency of voters will sink Heller.
Not only is he only appointed, but he replaced a completely disgraced Senator (Ensign). He has to pay for it. Not his fault, I know, but it's his stupid political party. And they blew their chances for this Senate Seat. Especially after Heller's voting record is EXACTLY THE SAME as Ensign's. Both of them horribly in it for themselves and nobody else.
Berkley is the much better candidate. My vote will be for her.
But what's funny is that if Heller gets voted out, he'll lay blame on Wrong Way Romney for dragging him down.
And he won't look at his own self.
He now has a convenient whipping boy in Wrong Way Romney and Wreckless Ryan.
Anyways, Gleanster, enjoyed the article. Keep 'em comin'.
Posted by: ColinFromLasVegas | 09/22/2012 at 05:05 AM
Dean Heller looks like a slightly stoned surfer dude.
Didja ever see the movie Clueless? Lots of the male students in Alicia Silverstone's fictional high school looked and acted like Dean Heller.
http://www.neontommy.com/news/2011/11/where-are-they-now-cast-clueless
On the other hand, Sheldon Adelson looks like Goldfinger, played by Gert Frobe in the eponymous James Bond movie. Check out the link and photo of Goldfinger here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auric_Goldfinger#Film_biography
Posted by: Observer | 09/22/2012 at 01:54 PM
David Vitter, a Moral-Majority type, patronized hookers. Nobody disputes this fact. Yet he got re-elected anyway. He must have the political skills of a snake-oil salesman.
Posted by: Observer | 09/22/2012 at 06:06 PM