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On the recordJune 6, 2011
If he's now going to be opining on each unfaithful or cyber-unfaithful husband, he ought to have to take a position now on whether David Vitter, the senator from Louisiana, who ran on family values and then got caught on the D.C. madam's list of friends, whether he should resign.
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Paul Begala
Democratic · Texas

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Paul Begala questions Eric Cantor's stance on resignations in light of past controversies involving other politicians.

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