Monday, August 27, 2007
Senatorial stall tactics
Wow, what a complete surprise! Conservative family-values Republican Senator Larry Craig gets caught doing a
gay footsie tapdance with an undercover cop in an airport bathroom. Can we get Rep McCrery's (R-LA) or Governor Crist's reaction to this story? Senator Craig plead guilty to disorderly conduct, but he shouldn't have done so. Perhaps, if the undercover cop were black, Craig could've cited racial fears to explain his nervous behavior, like
Rep. Bob Allen (R-FL) recently tried to do.Townhall's
Hugh Hewitt says:
I realize that I did not say this about Senator Vitter, but Craig's behavior is so reckless and repulsive that an immediate exit is required.
Anyone who has the stomach to desire sex in some disgusting airport bathroom is made of stronger fiber than I. That's all I gotta say.
You can find some YRHT commentary about Craig and other closeted "family values" Goopers
here,
here and
here. Also, Michael has a visual depiction of recent
"Grand Ole Preeverts".
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Update: I guess I do have a couple things to ask, since Senator Craig says his actions, which he plead guilty to, were "misconstrued". Based on his arrival and departure gates, how far did Craig go out of his way to visit this particular bathroom which was notorious for anonymous gay sex?
What is Senator Vitter's reaction to Craig's guilty plea? Does he think he should resign from the Senate?
Labels: gays, GOP
15 Comments:
So Hughie wants the gay guy to resign but presumably Vitter can stay because he just got caught banging hookers? Mmmmkay.
Also convenient that Craig would be replaced by another Republican since Idaho's governor is a Repug. Just sayin' ...
This is what John Kennedy aspires to....hmmm....
BTW, I have a nice pic of me shaking hands with Larry Craig somewhere, from back when I was a prof at U of Idaho. Time to find that sucker.
It'd be all the more ironic, Ashley, if the picture of you and Larry Craig was at an airport...
Maybe rethink that "whole shake hands with Larry Craig at the airport" thingie.....
It was in a liberry, dammit!
Was there a bathroom in the library?
At least Ashley's balls probably weren't bleeding at the time.
Waitaminute. That's the guy who said La. doesn't deserve any money because we're corrupt just like Iraq, right?
P.S. Always with the clever titles, eh? That's in your top 5 ever.
Thanks Mr Clio. I'd forgotten about his comments. Here's a report from wafb
Senator: LA is as Corrupt as Iraq
Oct 18, 2005 03:31 PM CDT
WASHINGTON - A Republican senator from Idaho is the latest to invoke Louisiana's reputation for political corruption as Congress considers whether to spend billions of dollars on hurricane recovery.
Sen. Larry Craig told his home state constituents that fraud is as much a part of the fabric of Louisiana as it is in Iraq and that flooded sections of New Orleans should be abandoned.
"Fraud is in the culture of Iraqis. I believe that is true in the state of Louisiana as well," Craig was quoted as saying in the Lewiston (Idaho) Morning Tribune on Thursday.
He was also quoted in the McCall (Idaho) Star News, saying "Louisiana and New Orleans are the most corrupt governments in our country, and they always have been... . A rookie cop in New Orleans, they pay him or her $17,000 starting pay and then wink and say you better make the rest of it on the street."
As a member of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, Craig is in a position to back up his words with actions by withholding support for hurricane-related spending.
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., blasted Craig's comments as "old stereotypes" and "ignorant remarks." But Louisiana's sleazy political past has clearly become part of the hurricane recovery debate in Congress.
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As Craig toured his state during the congressional recess, he also had some thoughts on redeveloping New Orleans that may be worrisome to people in flood-ravaged neighborhoods contemplating rebuilding.
The Morning Tribune quoted him saying there is growing Senate support for abandoning whole sections of New Orleans flooded by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. He mentioned the Lower Ninth Ward as an example.
"I'm not humorous when I suggest we should turn it back to what it was, a wetland," Craig was quoted as saying.
The comment echoed a remark by House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., in the days after the Aug. 29 storm. He said whole neighborhoods of the city should be bulldozed.
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She called Craig's references to the Ninth Ward "absolutely offensive."
"I remain hopeful that these hurtful remarks were not reported as he intended," Landrieu said.
But a Craig spokesman said the senator stood by the comments. The spokesman added that they weren't intended to reflect on Landrieu personally.
nice title...and I like the f/u question about gate distance he walked... very nice
I am loving this. I wrote a letter to the editor in the leading Idaho newspaper after Craig made those mean-spirited comments. I hope the media throws everything at him. He is a disgrace.
If there's a funnier chain of comments on a blog anywhere, I'd like to see it. . .
Handshake in the airport? Balls bleeding? I have tears I'm laughing so hard.
Also, Vitter will be okay with Craig staying in the Senate, just so long he doesn't want to get married.
How about this as a letter to Senator Craig:
Dear Senator Craig:
Say what you want about Edwin Edwards and Bill Jefferson. However, please remember this: as far as we know, they never tried to get a blow job from a stranger in an airport bathroom.
Signed,
All Louisianians
