Diaper Dave can't use campaign funds to cover prostitution expenses

Aw, boo hoo!

The Federal Election Commission has ruled that right-wing Sen. David Vitter (R-Louisiana) can't use campaign funds to pay over $160,000 in legal expenses he racked up after he hired a prostitute to indulge his diaper fetish.

Gee, Diaper Dave, that's some expensive hooker.

Normally I wouldn't be concerned with a politician hiring a prostitute. It's their life, so let 'em do what they want. But when a politician has that nasty Republican label next to their name, we should expect them to hold themselves to a higher standard, because the Republicans are usually the ones preaching to everyone else how to live.

A lot of people don't understand that. But if that sounds like a double standard, the GOP has brung it on itself by acting so holier-than-thou.

A politician of any party should be held up to industrial-strength ridicule if they actually think they can use campaign funds to cover fees resulting from them visiting a prostitute. Somehow I don't think Vitter's donors thought they were paying for hooker visits.

The FEC let Vitter pay for about $30,000 of his legal tab with campaign funds, because that part covered an investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee. Everything else has to come out of his pocket. (Do diapers even have pockets?)

(Source: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/vitter_cant_use_campaign_funds.php)