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Update: AP says Craig will resign tomorrow. (*sniff*)
Think Progress says that Larry Craig will announce his decision regarding his political future tomorrow. I’m hoping the stubborn old bird will stick around, despite the fact that the governor has already chosen his replacement — Lt. Governor Jim Risch. In this difficult hour TBogg has some insight into this terrible tragedy:
I have to admit that even I am stunned at the virulence that Republicans have have expressed against Senator Larry Craig, and so quickly I might add. Loss of his committee leadership posts, calls for his resignation, nobody wants to share an ice cream cone with him anymore…. sad, so very sad.
If only he had not been so gay and had, instead, just checked into a hotel room, donned a diaper, and fucked a couple of hookers like a normal Republican. They are conservatives and thinking outside the box is just unacceptable.
Meanwhile, MSNBC has still not dealt with its Tucker Carlson problem. Dan Abrams is a lawyer. Under what circumstances, no matter what the provocation, is it legal to go back a half hour later with an accomplice and beat someone up? That’s called vigilante justice, it’s against the law and it reflects the yahoo mentality that has dragged this country into such a precarious place. It does not make you a “man.”
Even Tucker knows it was wrong, that’s why his story changed so drastically. What it all has to do with Larry Craig’s situation I’m not sure, but it certainly shows Carlson to be one sick asshole.
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‘alloooo, Jane!
Yeah, I wrote to my senators expressing my wish that Vitters be added to the ethics probe for Craig. Fair’s fair, scandal’s a scandal…
I’m hoping the stubborn old bird will stick around…
As opposed to “sticking it out”, right?
well, maybe Tucker’s in a bit of hotwater – he doesn’t seem to be doing his show today…
Tucker took a posse and went into a rest room ta beat the crap outta someone? Huh? Shiit! What’s the statute of limitations. He needs ta be in jail.
Was he wearing the bow tie when he beat the crap out of whoever it was?
Hmmm.
Donita’s thread was there and gone.
Tuckers been doin his liberatarian schtick to the effect that no one should be reportin on what someone did in a men’s room.
This is a little snip of 2 of the conservatives murdered.
snip
Gonzalez and Abrami, both 36, shared a longtime passion for conservative Republican politics.
Gonzalez, a former head of the Republican Party in Georgia, ran the Strategum Group in Orlando. His clients included U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney.
Abrami, an attorney, drew Secret Service scrutiny in 1992 while still a student at the University of Central Florida.
As vice president of the Central Florida Young Republican Club, the 22-year-old senior announced a Turkey Shoot fundraiser where members could pay $2 to fire a shotgun at enlarged photos of then-President Clinton.
“This will be fun for the entire family,” Abrami told the Orlando Sentinel before the Secret Service persuaded him to raise money some other way. “They came down hard on us, saying we threatened the president, things like that.”
snip
I wonder how Ted Nugent & Tucker get away with their crap? Ah, the good old days when we had accountabiltiy.
OldCoastie @ 7
I’m guessing it’s more likely a hot tub. Lots of folks aren’t doing their usual schtick today — gotta stretch out that three day weekend into four or five days . . .
“decision regarding his political future tomorrow”
http://www.exodus-international.org/
The Exodus fundie Christian gay reclaimers.. to get cured of his “unnatural” urges
Tucker don’t do hissthing on Friday..Gives america a day off.
Link to my #11.
If Craig had beaten the hell out of a gay guy instead of tryin to attract one- he’d be a gooper hero.
Bustednuckles @ 9
Hmmm.
Donita’s thread was there and gone.
I refreshed the page, and my comment went from dos to tres.
Spooky. I’m gonna use a pencil to hit the “Submit” button. Here goes!
ccmask @ 15
have you seen this yet?
http://downwithtyranny.blogspo…..te-to.html
rwcole @ 16
which is precisely why I get so amused when the Craigs and Inhofes get up on the Senate floor to denounce the “barbarism” of Islamic civilization.. if we don’t stone gays in this country it certainly isn’t because of these losers.
jayt @ 17
I refreshed the page, and my comment went from dos to tres.
Spooky. I’m gonna use a pencil to hit the “Submit” button. Here goes!
what happened, jayt?
What the repubs are doing to Craig ought to piss him off.
Maybe he can be turned.
Schuster just confirmed Craig will resign tomorrow.
Jonathan @ 21
and we’d want him because? We have no room for cultural warrior bigots… even hypocritical ones :)
It’s Time to Stop Messing Around
Why I Am Not Going to the Protest
By JEFF GIBBS
Long article at the link
snip
History will not judge George W. Bush. It will judge us. He did not send the troops there; we did. Only one congresswoman and NO senators voted against this war. We can bring them home, but first the democrats must fear the wrath of the people. And right now they fear us far us far too little.
Elliott @ 20
all appendages safely accounted for.
Shorter Tucker: “Punk? Who you calling a punk? Step into this restroom and I’ll show ya who’s a punk.”
jayt @ 25
whew!
Strangely disappointing, AP say’s Craig will resing tomorrow. Good-bye asshole!
jayt @ 17
I refreshed the page, and my comment went from dos to tres.
Spooky. I’m gonna use a pencil to hit the “Submit” button. Here goes!
Wow! You’re down to four! Try it again!
…kidding!
Resign, that is…
rwcole @ 10
…instead, we should just beat them up… seriously, though, I’ve always wondered about the man’s younger brother.
Blub @ 23
I believe in redemption. (I’m not religious.)
Craig has done some bad things but may have some good at his core.
Maybe this is an opportunity for him to let whatever good he has to shine through.
But I suspect (shrinks here correct me if I’m wrong) he’s not going to do that if there’s absolutely no reward for doing so.
Mad Dogs @ 26
*Shorter* Tucker? geez, he’s already using a booster seat.
dogeatdogi @ 29
I guess he realized he no longer has one leg up on the spin situation.
i agree that most likely tucker is probably closeted, and doth protest too much.. and he seems a little too privy to actions in the privvy…
on the other hand, IF he was “manhandled” in the bathroom as a minor, then yes, that would be despicable, and the offender would be a child molester, not just some random gay man. not to say i believe him, but a big IF…
phred @ 18
IMO, this story has wide-stance legs!
Well, David Brooks just said the fear American moms have about Larry Craig is that it’s not safe to send their 10 year old boys into the mens rest rooms. I AM NOT GAY man = pedophile. No one challenged this equation.
Jonathan @ 32
Politically, I don’t think bigots and cultural warriors are redeemable. There may be some moderate rethugs who, theoretically and with a great deal of effort, can be converted (Collins, Gordon Smith, Jeffords, etc)… but the theocons cannot. Once you put on that white sheet, you’re consigned to oblivion. Sure, religiously speaking, they can be redeemed and forgiven as human beings, but, politically, no.
That’s not vigilante justice — it’s assault and battery. Possibly aggravated assault.
Justice is what happens when those who commit battery are arrested, tried, convicted, and sent to prison.
private idaho. (snicker)
jane, you’re delicious!
will someone call the repubs on their crap, not just their hypocritical MORAL crap, but their idiotic, hypocritical anti-tax, small government CRAP? it’s about the taxpayer’s money. shove some anti-tax crap down the republicans’ butts and throats.
NONE OF MY HARD EARNED $$ for corrupt LIARS, frickin’ around on my dime ever again. that’s the meme. you want to be an elected official and receive a SALARY from the AMERICAN PEOPLE??? then, act as if you have a brain in your skull. or go back to private life. jeesh.
PS: I was reading the crime-blog last night wrt the murders and it hit me that it seemed like the murders were all set up to look like a murder-suicide. From what I was reading, I also gathered that maybe someone was about to step forward with info regarding the 2000 election.
ccmask @ 36
If true, they’ll be pining for the the good ol’ days when they had Craig to kick around…
Scarecrow @ 37
that’s not it, Scarecrow, it’s what the boy might stumble into or see in there. Not pedophilia.
Anyone have a recipe for Labor Day popcorn? We’re gonna need it. The Friday news is coming fast & furious.
Elliott @ 44
Just reporting what the man said.
well, my bike seems to be heading out the door for a ride – guess I’ll go with it.
so with Craig off to the woodshed, when do the rethugs plan to launch their inevitable withhunt/purge?
I have stated before that Tuckery must have blackmail photos of Dan Abrams or someone in the GE hierarchy.
Same with Glenn Beck and CNN.
Either blackmail photos or somehow the goopers got a law passed in the last Congress requiring the semi-legitimate corporate owned media* to maintain at least one low rated wing-nut program for wing-nut welfare purposes.
*Faux Noise Channel is not included in this as most all of their shows are for wing-nut consumption.
It’s a class issue for Republicans, which is why they give Vitter a pass.
Illicit sex in fancy hotel — ok.
Illicit sex in public restroom — resign!
“I’d like to thank you all for coming out today.”
No, soon-to-be-ex-Senator Craig — thank you!
Scarecrow @ 45
oh sorry, I misunderstood you.
Blub,
I was thinking as a former military intelligence officer.
You look for vulnerabilities. Opportunities.
All toward accomplishing the mission.
ccmask @ 41
Wow, this story really could be the gift that keeps on giving… Maybe someone figured the gay angle would be accepted so fast, no one would scratch the surface to see what was really being covered up. Really says something about how far the GOP has fallen when gay murder-suicides appear to be the obvious explanation.
Scarecrow @ 38
I share your concern about the ridiculous equation of gays with pedophiles, but I’ve also seen a similar kind of comment here, scarecrow. Here it has generally come across from broader discussion as “I don’t want my kid exposed to folks having sex in the bathroom.” That I can agree with.
I was watching “Morning Joe” today with Joe Scarboreow and Ann Marie Cox of Time magazine discussing whether or not Craig should step down. Joe opined about how homosexuality is a disease and how it should be “treated.” Ann Marie Cox just sat their and said nothing while Joe went on and on with his ignorant and ill-informed remarks. I don’t see how Joe gets away with this kind of crap day after day and absolutely nobody calls him out on it.
Cliff Varnell @ 49
that and a bigotry issue. They understand paid heterosexual sex. It’s sordid but, to their mind, human. In their mindset, homosexuality, pedophilia (when not committed by their particular clergy) and probably beastiality are conflated as being unforgivable crimes against nature, meriting only an immediate lightning strike from on-high. It’s a visceral thing that comes out of certain types of upbringing.
Peterr @ 53
Well, for that matter, I don’t want to see folks having sex in the bathroom. Jeebus, airport restrooms are bad enough without having to wait even longer in line for a stall ;)
phred @ 55
we could always push for separate public bathrooms for rethugs…
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig will announce Saturday he will resign from the Senate amid a furor over his arrest and guilty plea in a police sex sting in an airport men’s room, Republican officials said Friday.
Craig will hold a news conference at 10:30 a.m. MDT and say that he will resign effective Sept. 30, three state GOP officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
time to bring back the open-air pissoirs
CRAIG WILL RESIGN!
BOISE, Idaho – Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig will announce Saturday he will resign from the Senate amid a furor over his arrest and guilty plea in a police sex sting in an airport men’s room, Republican officials said Friday.
Blub @ 56
Works for me :)
You beat me to it AZMatt!
AZ Matt @ 57
that’s too bad, I was hoping he’d stay and fight.
Blub @ 57
Would never work, imo, they would just come up with another stall tactic.
ccmask @ 61
Not by much! *g*
DURHAM, N.C. – Mike Nifong, the disgraced former Durham County district attorney, was held in criminal contempt of court Friday for lying to a judge when pursuing rape charges against three falsely accused Duke University lacrosse players.
Elliott @ 62
Time to whack on Vitter!
Ellitoo: I was really hoping he wouldn’t cut & run. He should have come out because the end result is that he did come out. But why did Bob Allen get away with it?? Especially blaming it black people!! Where is the uproar on this scandal?
duhn, duhn, duhn.
another one bites the rust.
My scandal list is growing rapidly.
Whatever he is Craig is ashamed to be gay or bi and will not cop to that. He’s as in the closet as one can get despite the fact that the door swung open and the world had a peek.
It’s always the hypocrisy of these politicians which is so insufferable.
Remember the straight talk express? hahahaha
Eureka Springs @ 63
Ouch!
ccmask @ 67
Check this out, cc
Allen’s Comments After Alleged Solicitation Allowed In
Blub @ 56
You know somewhere in the last two days I spotted a photo for just that: a standalone bathroom building (like the kind you see at the beach), with three doors: “men,” “women,” and the last, one of those big roll up door things: “wide stance” — anyone else see that? Linky?
Blub @ 38
We’re having this discussion here in Hawaii right now. A homophobic Republican State Senator, Mike Gabbard, decided that its no fun being in a small minority party (Dems have a veto-proof majority in the State Senate). So he decided to become a Democrat. Here in Hawaii, there’s no requirement to support the Democratic Party Platform or anything else, so he was “welcomed.”
The state’s progressives are not amused.
Bob in HI
I love when those who chastised Clinton for lack of a moral compass have shown themselves to be no better and often worse. How do people like Vitter look in the mirror in the morning?
Tucker’s lucky the statute of limitations is up. Still, who confesses to a crime on national tv? Very silly of him.
Hope you all have a great holiday weekend.
SanderO @ 75
well we know looking in the mirror for Cheney shows nothing.
Anybody heard the rumor that Larry Craig is going to return to Idaho, become a “daredevil”, wear a red, white and blue spandex suit and recreate Evil Knievels leap over the Snake River? He wants to be the first to do it on a unicycle.
Jeralyn @ 76
you too, Jeralyn
How many bigots can really change their stripes? Look at Trent Lott and his comment about Jesse Helms… wasn’t it? Once a bigot always a bigot. They just learned not to say it when there is a microphone around. (usually)
Macacca anyone?
Jeralyn @ 76
I think that’s the problem, he is completely oblivious to the fact that what he did was a crime.
You have a good weekend, too…
Elliott @ 72
I should have used this quote:
Allen’s Comments After Alleged Solicitation Allowed In
This one’s for you, Larry!
Hit the Road Jack – Ray Charles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I
Well shit, he’s quitting huh?
I’ll have to call my old colleagues from the Fish Passage Center, which Craig almost succeeded in destroying to see when the Fish House Punch celebration is happening.
Tucker really put his foot in his mouth. If I were the man at NBC I would send him a pink slip. You don’t proudly advocate vigilantism on tee vee. See… he’s dumb too.
Maybe he’ll change his name and be banished to right wing talk radio. You hear this shit there.
Jonathan @ 51
What do you think Karl Rove and Darth Cheney are doing with all that wiretapping information? Do you think they have been able to get some info for partisan advantage? I wouldn’t want to bet against it.
Bob in HI
ccmask @ 69
The Clash are re-uniting to reprise one of their classic albums. It wil be retitled Scandalista!, featuring the hit “Washington Mullets”.
other song titles from the original album, seen in a new light:
Police on my Back
The Magnificent Seven
The Crooked Beat
Somebody Got Murdered
Let’s Go Crazy
The Sound of Sinners
Career Opportunities
Elliott @ 82
Ha-ha
Someone jams a pistol in my face.
I back down.
30 minutes later, I come back into the bar with some friends.
We beat the shit out of that person.
Criminal battery.
Rep. McHenry tied to the Florida murders?
Curioser……
-GSD
Blackmail works! Don’t get caught.
radiofreewill @ 83
Perfect!
Tucker just wants everyone to know what a he-man bad ass he is. Don’t mess with Tucker, a real man’s man. Not sure what that actually means in today’s Republican Party.
New post
bobschacht @ 86
Bob,
I grew up in the J. Edgar Hoover era.
When blackmail was routine.
I believe blackmail is at the heart of the current wiretaps.
marshen @ 54
I thought that Ann Marie was a much better commentator before she got her establishment job (way back when she was THE Wonkette). Now she can look perky and smart, but what she says has to stay between the lines, and it no longer sizzles like she used to.
Bob in HI
So no music videos yet this weekend, yet the toe-tapping tunes continue?
From Wiki:
Susan Bonzon Ralston is the President of SBR Enterprises, LLC, a government affairs, public relations and business consulting firm in the United States.
SanderO @ 81
But on the other hand, we have Robert Byrd, who not only talks about changing his stripes but has the voting record to back it up. It helps nobody to say it can’t be done.
Tucker Carlson has never beaten anyone up in his short life–even with help. It’s just not in him–that’s why he’s playing out this little passive-aggressive fairy tale of his.
Carlson doesn’t have much of a reputation for either accurate reporting or a strong sense of what the truth is, and I suspect that his reputation holds in this matter, too.
Without making any further imputations by saying so, Tucker Carlson is the archetypal rich sissy, and the notion of him attacking anyone physically is laughable.
So has everyone seen Tap Three Times? Careful with the liquids…
I am waiting for this one to blow onto the national stage.
Florida murder/suicide’s NC ties
http://bluenc.com/florida-murder/suicides-nc-ties
Scandal Sheet-Updated
Jack Abramoff -prison
Duke Cunningham -prison
Bob Ney -prison.
Mark Foley -sex scandal
Bob Allen -Veteran Park sex scandal
Katherine Harris -dropped out
Tom DeLay -dropped out
Curt Weldon -dropped out
Conrad Burns –dropped out
Ken Lay -Big Bush contributor scams millions
Larry Craig -resigns over public toilet sex scandal
David Vitter -sex scandals
Ted Stevens -under investigation
Don Young -under investigation
Tom Feeney -focus Abramoff investigation
Rick Renzi -home raided
Gary Miller -fbi investigation
Lisa Murkowski -land deal scandal
Jerry Lewis -under federal investigation
Ken Calvert’s – land deal scrutiny
Petey Domenici -Iglesias firing investigation
Heather Wilson -Iglesias firing investigation
Alberto Gonzales- Cut & Run on heels of investigation
John Doolittle -Entagled with the Jack Abramoff Affair
Harriet Miers -DOJ Investigation Subpeona Refusal
Dan Bartlett -DOJ Investigation
Scooter Libby -Guilty by his peers; Innocent by his Prez
Michael Ray Aquino -involved in espionage thru Cheney’s office
David Safavian -convicted in Jack Abramoff scandal
Ted Haggard -removed for sex and drug abuse scandal
Gary Miller -FBI investigation on tax evasion
Fox News -Heavily campaigned for war with known untruths
Jeff Gannon -Illegal White House entry
Dusty Kyle Foggo -Indicted for fraud, conspiracy & money laundering
Michael Brown -Resigned over his handling of Katrina and aftermath.
Republican Party -2002 Phone jamming scandal
Tom Delay -First congressional leader to ever be indicted
Michael Scanlon -Guilty of corruption charges in Abramoff scandal
He’s announcing that he’s resigning IN A MONTH?! WTF?!
Frank Probst @ 106
That way, there’s a month to sweep it under the rug before we see the headline “Butch Otter Replaces Larry Craig.”
I got 50 cents says Craig does not resign when the time comes.
OldCoastie @ 108
Fifty cents is not a firm conviction. :-P
yeah, but EvilDr, I’m broke right now…
OldCoastie @ 108
I’ll take your fifty cents October 1.
ccmask @ 111
I’m no fan of Larry Craig, but when the reichtards all ban together to kick him out, while cheering for Diaper Dave Vitter, I’ve got to say: Aren’t they even going to make an effort not to show themselves as complete hypocrites?
ifthethunderdontgetya @ 112
No.
This has been another edition of Simple Answers to Silly Questions.
Why would he wait a month.. so he can vote for another surge?
EvilDrPuma @ 113
I had a feeling that was the answer…
I think he’s going to wait to see if the furor dies down… if he’s a stubborn sort, he probably will resist the push in some fashion…
Frankly, I think that Tucker made up this hateful story just to “macho up” his image (ha).
New new post upstairs
Republicans suck sooooooooooo bad! They can’t even deal with their degenerates fairly- one gets a standing ovation (because he’s a hetero), while the other gets booted (because-gasp- he’s a homo). I hate them all.
Well, as Wonkette pointed out about Tucker’s candor, as captured on video, he’s, clearly, an extremely insecure individual who might’ve easily become unhinged had he been the one in the stall next door on that fateful day Craig got stung by the flatfoot floosie. Being the subject of a solicitation from a gay man, let alone a Republican Senator and fellow gay-basher hiding in the water closet would have been more than Tucker could ever possibly have borne without lashing out in a fit of rage he would’ve deemed appropriate on such occasions. In Wonkette’s words:
“…beloved pundit Tucker Carlson proves how totally 100% not gay he is by telling a charming story about how he and his fellow not-gay friend bashed some fag’s head against a bathroom stall. Yeah! Just let Larry Craig try that wide-stance foot-tapping bullshit with Tucker! He’ll smash his fucking homo skull in!”
Hannity & Co have dredged up Barney Frank and Studds to contrast to the Craig scandal.
Of course their “scandals” took place years ago which just shows how far ahead thinking the liberals are.
The liberals, unfettered by pious hypocrisy, repeatedly re-elected both gay congressmen because they weren’t lying intolerant hypocrite liars, but honest men who served their constituents well.
rwcole @ 16
Craig told the cop “You solicited ME” after the arrest…Imagine if he had burst into the other stall shouting…”Toe tapper!”
ccmask @ 105
Thanks for the list.
Monica Goodling?, Susan Ralston?, Sara? Taylor?, Griffen?, several other U.S. attorneys?, Ravenel in S. Carolina – Cocaine bust, Romney – Hotel Board member porn rentals?, Delay – still under indictment.