Lifted from the ‘Busters so I’ll make you click over for background. Carlson backs him into a corner from the opening bell and starts swinging, and not until about a minute left does this McCornthyite tool finally start swinging back. But it’s worth the wait for when he does. The money line comes about halfway through:

“I get it the way through intimacy and, and decency.”

I won’t spoil it by telling you the context. But suffice it to say: hot.

Rectenwald’s webpage is here. He’s very, very upset at Republicans who violate their own moral standards; if only they’d lower themselves to Democratic moral standards, they wouldn’t be exposed to this hypocrisy charge. Exit question: Is Vitter done? Click the image to watch.