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Tuesday, August 28, 2007


LARRY CRAIG GETS THAT FEELING, NEEDS SEXUAL HEALING

If we've learned anything at all this summer, it would be that politicians who tout their support for "family values" sure like to put their penises in people who aren't their wives.

Way back during the Clinton impeachment, we learned that Speaker-designate, Bob Livingston, had engaged in extramarital activity so depraved that the details even made Larry Flynt uncomfortable. Months afterward, we learned that Speaker Newt Gingrich was playing hide the sausage with a member of his staff even as he was shepherding impeachment through the House of Representatives.

Both Livingston and Gingrich limited their activity to amateur cunt. That wasn't enough for Lousiana Senator David Vitter, who was forced to admit this summer that he went pro long ago. Of course, the GOP has forgiven Vitter and Gingrich is still deciding whether or not to run for president.

But maybe the greatest fuck story this summer is the revelation yesterday that Idaho Senator Larry Craig was arrested in a Minnesota men's room in June and pled guilty to same on the 11th. He was arrested for what most people in men's rooms usually are.


"My experience has shown that individuals engaging in lewd conduct use their bags to block the view from the front of their stall," Karsnia stated in his report. "From my seated position, I could observe the shoes and ankles of Craig seated to the left of me."

Craig was wearing dress pants with black dress shoes.

"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 moves his foot closer to my foot. I moved my foot up and down slowly. While this was occurring, the male in the stall to my right was still present. I could hear several unknown persons in the restroom that appeared to use the restroom for its intended use. The presence of others did not seem to deter Craig as he moved his right foot so that it touched the side of my left foot which was within my stall area," the report states.

Craig then proceeded to swipe his hand under the stall divider several times, and Karsnia noted in his report that "I could ... see Craig had a gold ring on his ring finger as his hand was on my side of the stall divider."

Karsnia then held his police identification down by the floor so that Craig could see it.
Waitasecond! Tapping your foot, brushing your foot against someone else's and waving your hand under a bathroom stall is disorderly conduct how? When I heard that Craig had gotten popped in a homo sting, I figured that he had gone for the full Walter Jenkins and had been found with his cock in some dude's skull. Turns out tapping your toes in the can is a misdemeanor in Minnesota. I knew I hated that fucking place for a reason.

Following his arrest for lewd toe-tapping, Senator Craig pled guilty, paid a fine and was given a suspended sentence. After Roll Call blew the whistle on his bust, Craig released a written statement yesterday saying that he was a schmuck to cop to anything.



"At the time of this incident, I complained to the police that they were misconstruing my actions. I was not involved in any inappropriate conduct," Craig 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."
Loosely translated, Craig is admitting to being a fucking idiot. Why would anyone just go quietly into that good night without lawyering up, particularly when the conduct charged is so comically vague? And to plead guilty? Shit, even if he was drunk, he should have had the presence of mind to plead nolo contendre. If he was actually smart, he should have fought the charges in court. The cop jumped the gun in busting Craig. If you're going to arrest someone for lewd behaviour, it's always a good idea until they do something, I dunno, lewd. Even if Craig was off-tempo, toe tapping doesn't meet that test.

Well, there is one reason for Larry to have tried to work this out by his lonesome. He's a homo and has had rumours of his cock-hoggery swirling about his pretty little head since 1982. Being an Idaho Republican, admitting to it would be almost as lethal as being arrested for it.

That makes Larry Craig weapons-grade stupid. There's no way in the world that a story like this to be kept quiet for very long. Frankly, I'm shocked the story stayed buried for as long as it has. Anyone who has spent 10 seconds in Big Time Politics would know that a story like this would come out sooner rather than later, and it would be much better if you were fighting the charges when the story did surface. Better still, the facts of the case leave all kinds of reasonable doubt, especially when the defendant is a United States Senator. Shooting down the charges could have buried the rumors forever.

Instead, the senator decided to handle this in the worst way imaginable.

This story has been percolating since last October when some creepy ghoul of an activist outed Craig on a professional homo website that I refuse to link as a matter of principle. The guy in question had made a hobby of outing the staffers of Republican officeholders who supported the wrongheaded Defense of Marriage Act or the insanely wrong Marriage Amendment to the Constitution.

The scumbag outed Craig and Craig denied it. But it did make the whisper campaign public, and a number of news outlets started investigating. After 25 years, it wouldn't take much to blow Craig's hobbies wide open. He gladly obliged them.

Like Mark Foley before him, Senator Craig was leaning toward not running for re-election next year, and like Foley, the powers that be were working mightily to change his mind. Something tells me that effort likely changed course sometime yesterday afternoon.

If Craig is dumb enough to run again, or even stay in office through the end of is term, it's only a matter of time before someone passes a polygraph about having some bathroom fun with Larry, at which point the jig is up. Despite what Keanu Reeves and the late River Pheonix would have you believe, Idaho hasn't made any significant social progress in 200 years. Not only do fags not win statewide elections there, they run the very real risk of being burned at the fucking stake.

Larry Craig will likely vanish from politics this afternoon and start up an interior decorating business in San Francisco. But that makes the task of the GOP taking back the Seanate next year even harder.

On the bright side, I don't think you'll be seeing "family values" as a Republican issue anytime soon. Not when the Democrats can trot out Mark Foley, David Vitter, Bob Livingston, Newt Gingrich and Larry Craig to show you what those values are really about.

Update - 4:45 pm: Larry surprises me with a manic declaration of "I'm no fairy! I love my wife, whatshername," and a rant against the Idaho Statesman. Further, he dangles the possibility of running for re-election next year. His statement will be up on his website later this afternoon and I'll link it when it goes up.

Is it wrong that I love this story so much?

Update - 6:22pm: Larry's website sucks. Let's go to the video instead.



This is gonna get so good!

Update - 8:03pm: Okay, I've given up on Larry's Senate webpage. His staff are assholes. Here's CNN's reprinting of that beautiful statement.

A couple of points, and remember, I'm not a lawyer nor am I familar with Minnesota procedure.

"In June, I overreacted and made a poor decision. While I was not involved in any inappropriate conduct at the Minneapolis airport or anywhere else, I chose to plead guilty to a lesser charge in the hope of making it go away. I did not seek any counsel, either from an attorney, staff, friends, or family. That was a mistake, and I deeply regret it. Because of that, I have now retained counsel and I am asking my counsel to review this matter and to advise me on how to proceed.
Exactly what good can retaining counsel now do? If it's possible for someone to withdraw a guilty plea three weeks after its been entered and sentence imposed, I've never heard of it actually happening. And I'm sure that someone would have tried it if it were possible.

For that reason, I have to believe that either Senator Craig is an idiot or he believes that everyone else is.
"For a moment, I want to put my state of mind into context on June 11. For eight months leading up to June, my family and I had been relentlessly and viciously harassed by the Idaho Statesman. If you've seen today's paper, you know why. Let me be clear: I am not gay and never have been.

"Still, without a shred of truth or evidence to the contrary, the Statesman has engaged in this witch hunt. In pleading guilty, I overreacted in Minneapolis, because of the stress of the Idaho Statesman's investigation and the rumors it has fueled around Idaho. Again, that overreaction was a mistake, and I apologize for my misjudgment. Furthermore, I should not have kept this arrest to myself, and should have told my family and friends about it. I wasn't eager to share this failure, but I should have done so anyway.
In the interest of full disclosure, I should admit that I've been enraged by newspapers ever since I learned to read 33 years ago. But that rage and blinding hatred has never driven me into confessing to a crime I didn't commit. Not even once. And there are some newspapers I really hate.

And the blanket denial of any and all homosexery is wildly, magnificently stupid. If Larry didn't know that embarrasing stories will always come out before yesterday, he should know now. If he so much received a handjob from a kid at camp in 1963, chances are that we'll know about it by Labor Day.

Say what you will about witch hunts and nasty rumors, but 25 years worth of them have an ugly habit of having at least some truth to them. He would have been just as effective if he denied the Minneapolis / St. Paul International allegations alone. Instead, he's made his entire goddamn life an issue, and if there's anything there, it'll come out and he'll look like Gary Hart with a deeper appreciation of Broadway.

Here's where Larry's political future comes into play;


"I love my wife, family, friends, staff and Idaho. I love serving Idaho in Congress. Over the years, I have accomplished a lot for Idaho, and I hope Idahoans will allow me to continue to do that. There are still goals I would like to accomplish, and I believe I can still be an effective leader for Idaho. Next month, I will announce, as planned, whether or not I will seek re-election."
I can't believe he's still seriously thinking of running. He seemed to be leaning against it even before this mess. And it really doesn't matter. If Larry doesn't immediately resign before the end of the week, Trent Lott is going to throw him down an elevator shaft.

And that brings us to the single most beautiful thing about American politics. You can come back after saying that America would have been a better place if an avowed segregationist was elected president of the United States in 1948, but being a fag is the Kiss of Death.

Although Lott was smart. He only offended one group, black people. All he had to do was go on BET and cry some to prevent getting thrown right out of politics. Larry Craig has magically managed to offend Christian conservatives and homosexuals. And when you piss off both groups, you can't apologize to one without further antognizing the other.

And that, my friends, is what a perfect storm looks like.

Easy Listening Recommendation of the Day: I Should Have Known Better By: The Beatles From: A Hard Day's Night

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