The Singing Senator and the Poker of Truth

August 30th, 2007

Was talking to a friend of mine today about Larry Craig’s misadventure in a public toilet and said I couldn’t imagine how someone with SO MUCH to lose would risk that way, and how if I were a Pub politico I’d be looking around at those MANY mightier than myself tumbling out of the closet, and either be worried about what I was repressing in my own psyche, wondering if it was in the water or damned careful with my sexual adventures.

I told him I thought the Universe was conspiring to push us ALL into authenticity, goad us ALL out from behind our shadows with a white-hot poker up our bums to make us blab everything we know. He said we could call it The Poker of Truth. Yeah, huh!

Here’s a short collection of favorite bits and ‘toons on the “wide stance” of Senator Craig — I’m sure by now you know the gent was caught cruising a mens room and throwing signals to an undercover cop. You may remember Craig as a member of that merry band of warblers that included John Ashcroft and Trent Lott — the “Singing Senators.” Well, Larry ain’t singin’ now! He’s quacking like a duck in Uncle Dick’s cross- hairs.

I’m not sure how they can charge this old fella … there was nothing overt … but if you read the particulars it wasn’t just his behavior in question, his response to the policeman was guilt-stricken … and its certainly made the list of Top Ten Topics this week.

Yes, I know, I know — there are serious things to contemplate like Iran and Iraq and Afghanistan, yadda … but there is a bit of humor in this situation, although likely not for poor “I’m not gay, I’m not gay, I love my wife, I’m not gay” Larry Craig [from Idaho, a place where gay and black folk can end up with their heads mounted over the fireplace; been there, can confirm that with surety.]

As usual, the Left has found the serendipity in all this, while the Right moves ITs feet around to strike a fightin’ pose, as did Tucker Carlson [if he wants to be taken seriously, he needs to lose the bow tie.] And seriously [or not] … I love the part of the Liberal mindset that can find humor in anything — there was probably somebody doing a version of stand -up at Auschwitz, you should pardon the political incorrectness; if you can’t grasp the absurdity of the human condition … you’re destined to repeat it, and without the psychic tune-up of a great gasping fit of laughter.

While Craig has the appearance of a dotty old professor, he clearly understands the “cruising language” of Gaydom, and his home state has had about enough, it appears — this is not the first puff of fairy dust that’s landed on Craig’s shoulders. And perhaps those still closeted are anxious to put him out of sight and mind … WHY does it occur to me that there are still a LOT of Congressional Pubs taking nervous fits over this? Track record, anyone? Diaper-fetishist David Vitter seems able to weather the sexual scandal storm, but poor Larry doesn’t seem to enjoy the same STRAIGHT path forward.

Just to cover the topic completely I’m throwing in the latest on the Right [sic] Reverend [sic] Ted Haggard [who is ALSO not gay] and a tiny rant from my favorite gay blogger, T-Rex, last. Oh yes, and I should add that I saw a bit about Jeff Gannon somewhere in my travels yesterday, not newsy enough to grab, but … yes, he’s still lurking in the shadows. Or the men’s room. Whatever.

So, here’s some hypocrisy, some sad news of scandal and snark, some schadenfreude and some fun, all in one big spit ball — including funny video’s from Olbermann and South Park’s Big Gay Al.

And here’s my advice for the day — be proactively authentic if you’d avoid The Poker of Truth.

Jude

Toles ‘toon

Lester ‘toon

Olbermann Re-Enacts Senator Craig’s Bathroom Scene [VIDEO]
Adam Howard, Alternet
August 30, 2007
[open link for video]

Sticking directly to the script (police report) of Senator Craig’s public restroom encounter with an undercover police officer, Keith re-enacts (in classic “Dragnet” style) what transpired that fateful day back in June.

In a completely silly but definitely amusing segment from Keith Olbermann’s “Countdown”, Olbermann reads the police report of the Larry Craig incident in the style of the old “Dragnet” TV show while actors (the one playing Craig wheres a ridiculous wig) act out what has now become an infamous scene. “No actual senators were harmed in the making of this film,” says Olbermann. The GOP is in total disarray, the late night comedians have (of course) seized onto this story and despite GOP calls for him to resign, Craig seems stubbornly unwilling to do so. So the fun continues…

Hidden in Plain Sight
TRex, FireDogLake

In spite of his heated denials today, Senator Craig has left quite a trail of slime over the years. Editor and Publisher has the scoop on the rumors, the repeated accusations, and the Idaho senator’s persistent efforts to bury the truth.

In its story today about Craig’s arrest, the Statesman revealed that it had uncovered evidence of other Craig liaisons or sexual advances, including allegations that he had sex with a man in a Union Station bathroom in Washington, D.C., but had not previously reported it.

“Until Monday, the Statesman had declined to run a story about Craig’s sex life, because the paper didn’t have enough corroborating evidence and because of the senator’s steadfast denial.”

But the paper also revealed, “Over five months, the Statesman examined rumors about Craig dating to his college days and his 1982 pre-emptive denial that he had sex with underage congressional pages. The most serious finding by the Statesman was the report by a professional man with close ties to Republican officials. The 40-year-old man reported having oral sex with Craig at Washington’s Union Station, probably in 2004. The Statesman also spoke with a man who said Craig made a sexual advance toward him at the University of Idaho in 1967 and a man who said Craig “cruised” him for sex in 1994 at the REI store in Boise. The Statesman also explored dozens of allegations that proved untrue, unclear, or unverifiable.”

In other words, the evidence was out there all along. When activist Mike Rogers posted a report last October examining Senator Craig’s lengthy list of sexual indiscretions with men, it looked like a duck, walked like a duck, and quacked like a duck, so of course, Big Media and the Right Wing Noise Machine pronounced it…a swimming chicken. “Senator Craig isn’t gay, he just sucks a lot of cock. That doesn’t really make a guy gay, does it?”

Glenn Greenwald:

Nonetheless, it is hard to overstate the intense fury that this pre-election report triggered from the Right — not at Senator Craig for engaging in this behavior, but at Rogers for reporting it. A virtually unanimous chorus on the Right furiously insisted that nothing could be more irrelevant than whether the married family values Senator had sex with men in bathrooms (acts that are simultaneously criminal and adulterous). The same political movement that impeached Bill Clinton and which has made a living exploiting issues of private morality for political gain insisted that Rogers had reached a new and despicable low in politics even by reporting this.

Of course, now that the writing is on the (bathroom) wall, the same cabal of mealy-mouthed Righty scolds are baying for Craig’s resignation, and they’re only stopping there because they can’t get away with openly calling for his execution. Although I feel fairly confident that Ace of Spades, some Red State mouth-breather, or another barely functional “Compassionate Conservative” will get around to it in the next few days. One thing you can always count on from America’s Junior Fascist brigades, they always Go There.

But back to their reactions from October when we first tried to warn them:

And at least at the time, Barnett was right. Among right-wing pundits — weeks before the election — there was nothing but support for Craig and outrage over the reporting of this story. The most hysterical outrage of all was from Glenn Reynolds, who went so far as repeatedly to predict — literally — that the country would be so repulsed by Rogers’ reporting that it might actually swing the election in favor of the Republicans.

(…)

As usual, Bush-supporting bloggers like Ann Althouse and Patterico dutifully echoed Reynolds’ line: “I truly believe this sort of tactic is going to create a backlash.” Identically, Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air actually convinced itself, as Reynolds did, that the Craig report was so despicable that it might save the GOP from defeat:

Three kids, nine grandkids. Supposedly spending his leisure time in the men’s room at Union Station. . . . It’s been said before but it bears repeating: the left always finds a way to shoot itself in the foot. Patterico expects a backlash. So do I. In fact, I haven’t felt this motivated to vote in weeks. . . . .

If a U.S. Senator was going to have a tryst — especially a gay tryst — would he really do it in the men’s room of one of the busiest places in D.C.?

Um, yeah. Have you not yet noticed that the man isn’t very smart? This is more than clearly evinced by his decision to stand and fight in the face of overwhelming evidence that he’s a nasty old pervert who gets his jollies planting his knees in pools of stale urine on public restroom floors and fellating total strangers. La Malkin, of course, is slow to pick up on this salient fact about the Senior Senator from Idaho because she’s not exactly on the short list for a Nobel Prize, either, poor little addle-headed thing.

I guess it would be too much to ask back in 1982 that Craig be kicked to the curb when he was accused of molesting underage Congressional pages. Perhaps timely intervention a quarter-century ago could have prevented the mess that was the Mark Foley scandal, not to mention providing some scrap of evidence (however small) that boy-rape is not part and parcel with the Republican attitude toward underage pages.

But, whatever. Doubtless the waves of young boys who were improperly solicited and seduced by members of Congress in the intervening two and a half decades were little “beasts” as Matt Drudge says, who were egging the older men on and deserved whatever they got.

If the Republicans get any more sick, venal, and corrupt, their constituents may as well just start electing hyenas and poisonous snakes to Congress. Who could tell the difference?

Craig List
Eli, FireDogLake
Tue Aug 28, 2007

Just a few random thoughts on the tragic demise of Larry Craig’s (R-Men’s Room) political career:

1) While I will never entirely understand the existence of gay Republicans, it’s certainly not surprising that every single one of them in elected office would be in the closet. If Republicans don’t believe gays are entitled to get married or serve in the military, they sure as hell won’t knowingly vote for one to represent them in Congress.

That being said, and considering that getting outed is career suicide for an elected Republican, I’m always amazed when one of them shows so little discretion.

2) Can we please retire the notion that sexual orientation is a choice? Why on earth would a Larry Craig (R-Stallabama) or a Ted Haggard choose to be gay? I just don’t think “to piss off the liberals” really works here.

3) CREW asks an interesting question: Why was the GOP Senate leadership on board with an ethics investigation for Craig (R-RR), but not for Vitter? I think it’s about 80% homophobia, and 20% anger that he was practically asking to get caught. At least Vitter indulged his diaper fetish in private.

4) So far, it doesn’t look like the media is very excited about this story, and it will probably be all but forgotten in a few days. I have come up with a perfectly reasonable, innocent explanation for why the media is always so much more interested in Democratic scandals, and why they always make a point to identify Democrats in trouble, but not Republicans (or else they misidentify the Republicans as Democrats).

It’s very simple: Republicans being sleazy sexual hypocrites or just plain criminals isn’t news - it’s like reporting that the sun rose in the East. “Ho hum, a bunch of politicians got busted for being crooks… but one of them was a Democrat this time!” Which is not to say that there aren’t Democratic crooks - it’s just not as commonplace, and therefore needs to be pointed out as an exception condition.

My theory also explains why the media doesn’t like to report on the Bush administration lying, breaking the law, or just generally fucking up. It would only be news if they didn’t.

[Note: Tongue and cheek may be closer than they appear.]

Will Mitch McConnell Be The Next Outed Gay Republican?
Why is Sen. McConnell in such a tizzy over Larry Craig’s scandal, I bet you can guess.
Howie Klein, Alternet
August 29, 2007

Voting-wise, Larry Craig’s record is a bit to the right of Miss McConnell’s but, when it comes right down to it, the two of them see almost eye to eye on everything: both are classic Bush-Cheney rubber stamps. Several of my friends can’t understand why two closeted homosexuals have been so virulently anti-gay. I’m not a psychologist (though I gave it a shot yesterday) so let’s just stick to the politics on this. And the GOP leadership is playing hardball– against one of their own. After his pathetic “I’m not gay” press conference yesterday Tim Russert, on Nightly News, said “I talked to Republicans today — they just want Senator Craig to exit, to leave.”

In 2002 the two closeted far right extremists each went for the #2 slot in the Senate Republican leadership. McConnell beat him. Yesterday McConnell released this statement on behalf of the Republican leaders in the Senate:

Late yesterday we became aware of the incident involving Sen. Larry Craig and his subsequent admission of guilt in a Minnesota court. This is a serious matter. Due to the reported and disputed circumstances, and the legal resolution of this serious case, we will recommend that Sen. Craig’s incident be reported to the Senate Ethics Committee for its review. In the meantime, leadership is examining other aspects of the case to determine if additional action is required.

Interesting that McConnell is moving rapidly against his fellow homosexual– who loudly denies having done anything wrong– while he never did a thing when it came to David Diapers Vitter (R-LA), who admitted to hiring prostitutes (a crime).

The right-wing grassroots is howling for homo blood and McConnell is more than aware how quickly that could turn against him– and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who is already in trouble with the violently homophobic Know Nothing wing of the GOP for his support of Bush’s immigration agenda. One extremist, Robert Bluey, writes “How very sad for a party that once stood for moral values,” while another is demanding something that scares the bloomers off McConnell:

I would like to argue that we should stop the bleeding, but if we’re going to clean house then it might get a lot worse. Until we learn that daylight is the best cure for scandals, and that moral values mean more than a campaign slogan, there will be many more Larry Craigs elected to office, and our nation will suffer for it.

Today’s NY Times wonders aloud what’s next for the scandal-scarred GOP?. Characterizing Craig’s press conference as “a bizarre spectacle,” the Times points out that it is “only the latest in a string of accusations of sexual foibles and financial misdeeds that have landed Republicans in the political equivalent of purgatory, the realm of late-night comic television.”

“The real question for Republicans in Washington is how low can you go, because we are approaching a level of ridiculousness,” said [a Republican operative], sounding exasperated in an interview on Tuesday morning. “You can’t make this stuff up. And the impact this is having on the grass-roots around the country is devastating. Republicans think the governing class in Washington are a bunch of buffoons who have total disregard for the principles of the party, the law of the land and the future of the country.”

Then again, Washington does not have a monopoly on the latest trend among Republicans. Just ask Thomas Ravenel, the state treasurer of South Carolina, who had to step down as state chairman of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s presidential campaign after he was indicted on cocaine charges in June.

Or Bob Allen, a state representative in Florida who was jettisoned from the John McCain campaign last month after he was arrested on charges of soliciting sex in a public restroom.

And Romney, of course, fired Craig from his campaign in nano-seconds of the toilet revelations coming out. Flip Flop Mitt didn’t want to hear any of that “I did nothing wrong,” crapola, not from someone who everyone in Washington knows is a frustrated closet queen who has been prowling public restrooms look for quickie sex for years.

In an interview Tuesday on Kudlow and Company on CNBC, Mr. Romney could not distance himself fast enough. “Once again, we’ve found people in Washington have not lived up to the level of respect and dignity that we would expect for somebody that gets elected to a position of high influence,” Mr. Romney said. “Very disappointing. He’s no longer associated with my campaign, as you can imagine.”

The religionists aren’t all that forgiving, not when it comes to homosexuals. Vitter in diapers chasing prostitutes for decades is one thing but a senator tapping his foot in a gay code in a public restroom is something else entirely. And, as the Times points out, this is hardly the beginning or the end of the Republican Party’s addiction to high profile scandals. “…there is a sort of ‘here we go again’ sense among Republicans these days, especially since news of the Craig arrest broke on Monday afternoon. It is tough enough being in the minority, weighed down by the burden of the war in Iraq. Now Republicans have an even more pressing task: keeping their party from being portrayed not just as hypocritical and out of touch with the values of people they represent, but also as a laughingstock– amid headlines like ‘Senator’s Bathroom Bust,’ which ran all Tuesday afternoon on CNN. The story also ran at the top of all the network evening newscasts on Tuesday.”

Perhaps Craig should redo that press conference, the way Lauren Caitlin Upton, Miss South Carolina, got to do hers on NBC. South Park has carefully choreographed a more suitable response for Larry Craig, although I think that Miss McConnell, Lindsey Graham, David Dreier, Jim McCrery, Patrick McHenry and the rest of the boys team should be– at least– in the chorus.

Big Gay Al from South Park
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Sen. Craig Uses “Wide Stance” Excuse for Lewd Conduct in Airport Men’s Room
Craig repeatedly leered between the cracks into the stall the officer was in, then entered the adjacent stall to play footsie and gesture under the partition for sex.
Pam Spaulding
August 28, 2007

A little recap for schadenfreude lovers. It was a bad time for cruising for homophobic Senator Larry Craig (R-ID), who pleaded guilty on August 8 to a disorderly conduct charge after his arrest in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in June.

An undercover officer just happened to be investigating complaints of lewd behavior and cruising in the men’s restroom there when Craig decided to repeatedly leer between the cracks into the stall the officer was in, then proceeded to enter the adjacent stall and play footsie and gesture under the partition for sex. Larry, btw, learn to flush.

Karsnia showed his police identification under the stall. “With my left hand near the floor, I pointed towards the exit,” the report said. “Craig responded, ‘No!’ I again pointed towards the exit. Craig exited the stall with his roller bags without flushing the toilet. … Craig said he would not go. I told Craig that he was under arrest, he had to go, and that I didn’t want to make a scene. Craig then left the restroom.”

The senator, once detained at the Airport Police Operations Center tried the old “do you know who I am?” maneuver, showing the arresting officer his business card indicating he was a Powerful Man of InfluenceTM, saying “What do you think about that?” but alas, that didn’t fly. Here’s the guilty plea court document.

In the annals of GOP sexual hypocrisy excuses, we have this new one to add to the database — the Wide Stance DefenseTM.

Craig denied any lewd intentions and told police he has a “wide stance” in the bathroom and reached down to pick up a piece of paper from the floor.

“It should be noted that there was not a piece of paper on the bathroom floor, nor did Craig pick up a piece of paper,” Karsnia wrote in the police report.

He pled guilty, but now he says it was all a big misunderstanding (sound familiar?).

“At the time of this incident, I complained to the police that they were misconstruing my actions,” he said. “I should have had the advice of counsel in resolving this matter. In hindsight, I should not have pled guilty. I was trying to handle this matter myself quickly and expeditiously.”

What — the pickup, the power play at the police station, or trying to make it all go away?

Craig, by the way, avoided 10 days in the Hennepin County, Minnesota pokey/workhouse for his bathroom. He’s on probation for a year and paid $575 in fines and fees.The Idaho Statesman’s Dan Popkey has a piece on its investigation of Craig’s rumored closeted sexual netherworld following Mike Rogers’ outing of the Senator in 2006 (more at BlogActive), which included scuttlebutt going back to his college days, and the infamous 1982 pre-emptive denial regarding allegations of sex with underaged congressional pages going on up on the Hill.

The most serious finding by the Statesman was the report by a professional man with close ties to Republican officials. The 40-year-old man reported having oral sex with Craig at Washington’s Union Station, probably in 2004. The Statesman also spoke with a man who said Craig made a sexual advance toward him at the University of Idaho in 1967 and a man who said Craig “cruised” him for sex in 1994 at the REI store in Boise.

The Statesman interviewed the Union Station cruise, who said that the men had sex in two restrooms with the encounter lasting “three or four minutes.”

***

Yesterday Larry Craig decided to step down as co-senate liaison for Mitt. The Romney’s campaign, which proudly hosted a video of Craig supporting the presidential candidate, quickly yanked it from its site (screenshot here), with Mitt’s mouthpiece, Matt Rhoades announcing “Senator Craig has stepped down from his role with the campaign. He did not want to be a distraction and we accept his decision.”

As we reported yesterday (and how it always is for these guys) Larry Craig’s public record as a social conservative is solid. He:

* Voted YES on constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. (Jun 2006)
* Voted NO on adding sexual orientation to definition of hate crimes. (Jun 2002)
* Voted NO on expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation. (Jun 2000)
* Voted YES on prohibiting same-sex marriage. (Sep 1996)
* Voted NO on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation. (Sep 1996)

Craig also has a 0% rating in HRC’s 2006 Congressional Scorecard.

The senator from Idaho, along with John Ashcroft and Trent Lott, formed The Singing Senators. He should think about hooking up with some of these guys to form a new group: Bob Allen, David Vitter, Mark Foley, Glenn Murphy, Jr., Tommy Tester, Ted Haggard…the list goes on and on.

Any suggestions for a name for the group and additional members?

Republicans’ Hyprocrisy Undressed
Black Star News [NY] Editorial
August 29th, 2007

Those who live in toilet bowls should not throw stones.

Sen. Larry Craig, a Republican from Idaho was caught with his pants down in a compromising position.

He reportedly propositioned a male police officer in a Minnesota Airport bathroom for sex; yet he claims he did nothing wrong and that he made a “mistake” when he pleaded guilty, on August 8, to a misdemeanor charge of lewd conduct stemming from his June 11 arrest. He also adds “I’m not gay,” and “never been gay.”

The senator, a supposed “family-values” conservative, like fellow Republican pedophile Mark Foley—who has voted against gay rights issues, including gay marriage—is up for re-election next year and has been in office since 1981. He was snagged in an undercover sting at the Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport Lindberg Terminal.

According to authorities the bathroom where Sen. Craig was arrested is a known cruising place for men seeking other men for public sex. Craig was arrested by Officer Dave Karsniat after performing a series of tell-tale solicitation signals. According to the report filed by Officer Karsniat, “at 1213 hours I could see an older white male standing outside my stall…The male was later identified as Larry Edwin Craig. I could see Craig look through the crack in the door from his position. Craig would look down at his hands, ‘fidget’ with his fingers, and then look through the crack into my stall again. Craig would repeat this cycle for about two minutes.”

The officer says the senator then when further by entering the stall next to him. He sat down, then proceeded to send other telling signals. “At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot. I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moved his foot closer to my foot…The presence of others didn’t seem to deter Craig as he moved his right foot so that it touched my left foot which was within my stall area,” the officer wrote.

After, those signals the senator is said to have repeatedly swiped his hands under the stall of the officer, who proceeded to produce his badge and make the arrest. Then on August 8 the senator pled guilty in Hennepin County District Court and was given one year probation with a $500 fine.

Senator Craig now says that plea was a “mistake” and that “in hindsight I should not have pled guilty.” At the time of the arrest he says he “complained to the police that they were misconstruing my actions.” He claims that he was only trying to “handle the matter myself quickly and expeditiously.”

To call the senator’s denials lame would be an understatement. He would have us believe that he pled guilty to this charge out of ignorance, nearly two months after he was arrested? Why would he have wanted to handle the matter “expeditiously” if he was innocent?

Craig is from a very conservative state. He adamantly insists that he isn’t gay. One wonders then why he would into a stall occupied by another male; why he would shove his hand under the next stall where another male was seated on a toilet. There is one thing to be friendly; but to rub his feet against that of another male seated on an adjacent stall? Word comes that the senator is linked with similar behavior in the Union Square area in Washington, D.C., among other places.

This I the kind of high-level Republican hypocrisy we’ve seen before. Republicans preached “moral values” and condemned Bill Clinton and literally wanted to hang him for his sexual encounters with Monica Lewinsky. Yet, their actions show that hypocrisy abounds.

Recall that David Vitter was humbled when Washington D.C. Madame, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, under the strain of her prosecution case revealed that the senator was one of her frequent customers. Vitter who represents Louisiana was also accused by a local Madame as being a loyal visitor to her establishment. Then there is Mark Foley, who engaged in homosexual activities with pages. Republicans had known of Foley’s secret life for years but chose to ignore it. Foley had been linked to inappropriate conduct with congressional pages, going back to the 1980s.

Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has already made a statement trying to link Craig’s conduct with that of Clinton in the “Blue Dress” affair. But we must keep in mind that Craig was helping Romney secure votes and support in the state of Idaho until yesterday. It remains to be seen how much damage this will do to Romney and the Republicans as we move into next year’s elections.

Sometimes, I Wish I Were Gay
Trey Ellis, HuffPo
August 29, 2007

Look, I feel sorry for Senator Craig and the millions of other gay men of his generation on the down low, torturing themselves for decades by pretending to be what they are not. I feel sorry for anyone so drowning in guilt, shame and loneliness that they compulsively seek out intimate contact with strangers among the stench of piss and shit.

And yet…how awesome it would be if straight guys could just sidle up to a woman, tap our foot and have sex with them. According to Craig’s police report that’s all you have to do. I’m newly single again and truly suck at meeting women at bars. I don’t like to get drunk and think it’s unsportsmanlike to take a woman to bed if she’s blotto.

This whole tapping the foot thing could be the answer to my prayers. After yoga, instead of feverishly racking my brain for some non-lame ice breaker I’d just — tap, tap, tap — and they’d jerk me in to the locker room. The next time I fall in love at Starbucks, instead of pretending to the woman in front of me that I’m confused about the distinction between a grande and a venti I’d tap, tap, tap and we’d rush off to the nearest hotel.

It is a uniquely male solution. Women, in general, seem to like things more nuanced and Byzantine.

Leave it to a bunch of guys to figure out a way to circumvent thousands of years and the endless intricacies and uncertainties of courtship with a simple tap of the toes.

Overseers will meet with Haggard
Associated Press
August 28, 2007

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Church officials supervising fallen evangelical leader Ted Haggard plan to meet with him today in Phoenix because of an e-mail he sent soliciting donations for himself.

Haggard told people they could send money to him or through an organization called Families with a Mission. That group has now been linked to a registered sex offender in Hawaii named Paul Huberty.

Haggard isn’t commenting on why he picked that group to take donations on his behalf. In an e-mail, he said he needed money as he attended school and worked in a halfway house in Phoenix.

The spokesman for New Life Church’s board of overseers says they’ll meet with Haggard today in Phoenix to discuss the e-mail. The Reverend Michael Ware says he hadn’t heard of Huberty or the organization before.

He says Haggard sent the e-mail before the board of overseers could discuss whether he could work in the halfway house.

Pansies, Perverts, and Pedophiles
TRex, FireDogLake
8/27/07

Can we please as a culture agree stop pretending that Republicans aren’t a bunch of effete pussies? Bill Frist? Hello? He makes Ru Paul look like Dog the Bounty Hunter.

Why won’t anybody call these guys out? Ralph Reed? Lindsay Graham? Even the ones like little Ricky Santorum whose wife spits out babies like a lawn sprinkler have that certain oily, southern-preachery prissiness about them, up to and including President Poppinjay himself. You’ve seen what he’s like when he’s mad. He stamps his little feet and starts talking all snippy and bitchy. I’ve seen ten year old girls who were more intimidating when piqued.

None of them have ever worn the uniform of this country. Their idea of “sport” is to get blind on whiskey sours and go shoot at a bunch of farm-raised birds on private land, but with a full Level One trauma team standing by, of course.

How many more of them will have to get arrested soliciting sex in public toilets before people finally cop to the fact that Republicans are a bunch of nasty old wealthy queens who cheat on their wives with other men and who can’t under any circumstances be trusted around teenage boys?

I know, I know.

Tick…tick…tick…

“So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin’ ass and celebratin’ the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was.”
~ Molly Ivins, 1944 - 2007

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