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Wouldn’t you know it, the GOP is treating Sen. Larry Craig, who solicited sex from a man, very, very differently than it treated Sen. David Vitter, who admitted to using a (heterosexual) prostitution service. You can check out Think Progress for details, but here’s what you need to know: a number of Republicans have called for Craig to resign, the party leadership has stripped him of his committee assignments, and the GOP has asked for an ethics investigation into his actions.
When David Vitter rose to speak in front of his fellow Republicans a few days after he admitted the “sin” in his past, he received “thunderous applause” from his colleagues.
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