To my dismay, I am on David Vitter's e-mail list. I have requested removal from it several times but I still receive a few e-mails a week. I'm not sure how I ended up on the list, though I may have contacted his office years ago protesting the injustice of his abstinence only education policies; the idea that he would demand more self-restraint from teenage citizens of Louisiana - young people wrestling with physical and emotional and hormonal drives for the first time - than he could muster himself as a 40-year-old married man is deeply upsetting to me. He won't teach Louisiana teens about birth control or safe sex? Did he use condoms during his sexual encounters with prostitutes? I want to know. I want to know why he asks more of my children than of himself.
The latest e-mail from Vitter contains blatantly false information about tax increases, literally calling Obama's proposals "the largest tax increase in American history" and condemning Charlie Melancon for supporting them. How can he do it? I have no idea. I don't know what twisted set of figures he is using to arrive at this statement, if he feels a need to support it at all.
The content of his latest e-mail follows below the fold.