[GIdget2004]

Vitter tried to get an amendment into the Trafficking bill, but didn’t get any traction.

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/03/david_vitters_amendment_to_den.html

[Regulator]

That was a great trial balloon that we did NOT support enough.

Now the Republican “leadership” is able to say it doesn’t have a lot of support, so why push it?

But it’s the key to the whole problem.

[Regulator]

"As the presiding officer knows our founding fathers including our later founding fathers who came up with the language of the 14th amendment, chose their words carefully and it is a fundamental rule of either constitutional or statutory construction that any word there, any phrase there must be there for a reason. It is not there just to add extra words without adding meaning," Vitter said.

That is ABSOLUTELY right, and the logic came from an Amicus Curiae brief by Ed Meese and John Eastman in the Hamdi case.

Means Vitter is getting GOOD advice on the issue, because that is the thing to zero in on.

There should be a massive groundswell to support him.

[cynwoody]

Vitter tried to get an amendment into the Trafficking bill, but didn’t get any traction.

What does that have to do with Rubiyoyo?