This is David Vitter with his lovely wife Wendy (you know, the one with the pained, tense, humiliated expression), as they appear at a recent press conference. David, the Republican Senator from Louisiana, is probably wishing that his telephone number wasn’t among those found in the rolodex of the now infamous DC Madam Deborah Jeanne Palfey. Wendy on the other hand, is probably wishing, among other things of course, that her up and coming hotshot husband not only didn’t sneak off for a little R&R while away on business in the Capitol, but that he didn’t once describe marriage as, “the most important social institution in human history”.

You see, Vitter started making a name for himself politically voting in favor of Bill Clinton’s impeachment because he was (get this) “morally unfit” to serve as President. He recently was an avid proponent in passing a Constitutional ammendment banning same sex marriage to protect the very instution he conveniently forgot when he was placing calls to pay for sex WHILE VOTES WERE BEING TALLIED ON THE SENATE FLOOR.

The interesing part isn’t that a Louisiana Senator was paying for sex in between roll calls, or that said Senator did so in a profoundly and reprehensibly hypocritical fashion. The real meat and potatoes in poor Vitter’s affair is in how this delightfully titillating tidbit came to the public’s attention, and how it may bode for some of Vitter’s colleagues on Capitol Hill.

About a month ago, Hustler Magazine founder Larry Flynt offered a reward of up to $1 million to anyone who could provide “documented evidence of illicit sexual or intimate relations with a Congressperson, Senator or other prominent officeholder.” From ABC News and the Political Wire:

Last week, a judge ordered Deborah Jeane Palfrey to “turn over phone records for her service from 1993 to 2006 to Washington, D.C. investigative reporter and author Dan Moldea, with whom she is writing a book… Moldea, who also works as an investigator for Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt, contacted Flynt with the information.”

The irony does not end there. Vitter came into his Senate seat because former Louisiana Senator Bob Livingston had to resign from the exact same seat because Flynt exposed that Livingston cheated on his wife as he was leading the charge for Clinton’s impeachment back in 1998.

Now Flynt says Vitter is just the tip of the iceberg. In an interview with Larry King last night, Flynt, who once morally sparred with the late Rev. Jerry Falwell (ironic no?), claims to have 30 more solid leads on other Congressmen including one in particular which Flynt said he was “shocked.” One wonders what else it takes to register a “shock” out of a man who has created an empire creating content that makes Playboy seem like the kind of thing you find in a dentist’s office. Here’s the conversation and video is below:

FLYNT: We’ve got good leads. We’ve got over 300 initially. And they’re down to about 30 now which is solid.

KING: When are you going to print?

FLYNT: Well, the last thing now is we don’t know if we want to let it to drip, drip, drip or we want to go with everything at once.

KING: You mean you might release 30 names at once?

FLYNT: A good possibility.

KING: Will we be — I don’t want to get into names yet. Will we be shocked?

FLYNT: Yes.

KING: Were you shocked?

FLYNT: I was shocked, especially at one senator but…

KING: One senator especially?

FLYNT: Yes.

How many more Congressmen will go down? Time will tell. Stay tuned…PSA Correspondent Conor Nevins contributed to this report from Washington.

Trevor Timm is a Blast Magazine staff writer