Ethics

Vitter: Pay Increases Offensive

By Ed Brayton

You'd think that someone who has been publicly humiliated for his rank hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy would avoid calling other things offensive, but here comes David Vitter:

Automatic cost-of-living pay raises for members of Congress would be banned under a proposal from Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana.

Vitter introduced the proposal last week as an amendment to a $410 billion spending bill headed for a Senate vote that could come Tuesday.

"This system of auto-pilot pay raises really is offensive to the American people," Vitter, of Metairie, said on the Senate floor Monday. "It would simply say if we want a raise, we have to talk about it and then have an actual vote."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 14, 2009 (boomark / email).