Not only is Republican Congressman Vito Fossella a convicted drunk driver – he’s also an admitted unfaithful husband. Confronted with evidence that he has been keeping two families, one with his wife and children in New York, and one with his mistress and child in Virginia, Representative Fossella admitted that it’s true.
Does it matter?
Fossella’s rampant disregard for his own family (uh, families) does indicate the hypocrisy of the Republican Party’s so-called “family values” agenda. The Republicans use the idea of family values to attack the freedoms guaranteed all Americans by the Bill of Rights, but don’t really give families the resources they need to prosper. Then, they go around and cheat against their own families.
Still, it’s the legislative infidelity that I’m worried about. Vito Fossella’s drunken, philandering way of life hurts his wife and kids (and his mistress and her child too), but that’s his own personal dirty business to take care of.
Vito Fossella should indeed resign from office – but do so because he extremist legislative agenda is bad for America, not because his personal life is falling apart.
Yeah, the Republican Party lost an awful lot of respect with the reign of Bush/Cheney. They can’t be called fiscally conservative anymore, or the party of small government, family values, or of the religious right either (now with all those scandals as evidence to the contrary AND they didn’t “deliver” on Roe v. Wade). In fact they never even lived up to the vaunted ‘contract with America’ that Newt Gingrich and his ilk dreamed up (LIED to the voters just to get elected, you know – WIN). Anyone who votes Republican now is a complete idiot or fabulously wealthy and unconcerned with all that’s happened over the past year.