Senator Craig fights on
It is hard to watch a man shoot himself in the foot with his own gun then turn around and point the finger at some guy who is the assailant. I’m sure that this could be a Saturday Night Live sketch if we weren’t talking about a US Senator at a time when basic rights are being debated.
This is nuts (here is the transcript of the arrest interview). Larry Craig pleaded guilty. He plead guilty to a crime in which he was accused of lewd behavior. Now, there isn’t a heterosexual man in America who would admit to being Gay if he wasn’t. It just doesn’t happen. It is like a White guy walking around saying that he is Black. That doesn’t happen. (Except in that stupid Hollywood Movie Soul Man)
What’s up with him getting arrested and not telling his wife? If Craig truly thought that he was wronged wouldn’t his wife be the first person that we would tell? The only way that I don’t tell my wife is if I’m trying to hide something from her. Something like being accused of propositioning a police officer in a public bathroom when you have been plagued by rumors of homosexual activity for over 25 years!!
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From MSNBC.com:
… “You are sitting here lying to a police officer,” Karsnia (the arresting police officer) responded. “People vote for you. Unbelievable.”
…Craig pleaded guilty on Aug. 1 to a charge of disorderly conduct, but the case didn’t come to public light until Tuesday. Craig held a news conference then and said that despite his guilty plea, he had done nothing wrong and had hired an attorney.
He has received little public support from Republicans, however. Several GOP lawmakers have suggested he resign, some citing the fact that he pleaded guilty in the case.
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This is case of “I did not have sex with that man.” If homophobes run for office, pass laws that are discriminatory toward the GLBT segment of our society, then get caught with their pants down, they deserve what they get.
However, I wonder where the outrage is when our elected officials have sex with “working women,” get caught, but we never hear about it. Either both are wrong or neither is wrong in my book.
As a gay man I am thoroughly disgusted with the Republican witch hunt. While Rome burns Washington fiddles. Gays - Abortion - Guns - “family values.” Are any of those false issues going to get us out of the quagmire with Iraq? Are any of them going to solve our health care crisis in the U.S.? Are any of them going to solve the Social Security shortfall? Are any of them going to solve obesity? Are any of these issues going to improve education in America? Are any of these issues going to fix our broken highways and bridges?
I wonder if the Republicans will ever face reality or will we have to sit through the mud they dish up as issues to mask the fact they don’t have a clue on how to solve any problems.
Phil -
Thanks for your comment. Well said. Perfect!
I agree with his comments. I have to defend the democrats at every turn in republican country. When they say what have they accomplished since taking control of congress. I just say they have been in control since January 2007, What did the Republicans do the last 6 years? The problems have been around longer than just since January 2007. Where are their answers to the same problems. You can’t keep blaming a barely democrat congress when they have been in control for so many years doing what. But to make the rich richer and destroying the country for what it stood for.