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Wednesday, August 29. 2007
I’M NOT GAY!
“And I’m a Republican so there’s something wrong with being a queer.”Well, Senator Larry Craig didn’t put it exactly that way, but he claimed it was all a misunderstanding and that he didn’t do anything wrong in the toilet stall of the men’s room in the Minneapolis airport; that he pled guilty by mistake, thinking it would “just go away.” Let’s see … I get arrested for something I didn’t do so the logical thing to do is plead guilty. Nope Senator, that just doesn’t make sense. Even the unwashed masses can figure that one out from watching Law and Order.
According to the prosecutor’s complaint, the undercover officer involved in the arrest, Sgt. Dave Karsnia, said Senator Craig was “… gazing into his stall through the crack between the door and the frame.” Then the senator entered the stall next to the officer, tapped his foot three times and then moved his foot to touch that of the officer.
The upshot to the arrest: Senator Craig flashed his business card to Karsnia expecting his stature as a U.S. Senator would gain him a pass for trying to solicit sex. There you go! Flash those credentials!
Gary Bauer, the Moral Majority mouthpiece was on Hardball trying to switch the focus of Senator Craig’s hypocrisy to Al Gore — huh? — And John Edwards for getting a $400.00 haircut, hoping to create a vision that the type of behavior by Craig has been the norm in Washington since the beginning of the nation—and that somehow getting a $400.00 haircut is the same thing as getting arrested for soliciting sex in an airport restroom. Thankfully, Chris Matthews brought the conversation back to Senator Craig. It was surprising Bauer didn’t bring up the Kennedy name in his Democrat-bashing moment.
In the past, I would have said, if two gay men want to hook up in a men’s room, let’em, as long as they take the sexual behavior elsewhere so I can do my business without the accompaniment of grunts and moans. But, frankly enough, I’d rather not have guys peeking at me while I’m in there doing my business so, no, gay men should not hook up in public restrooms.
The hypocrisy: Senator Larry Craig had the audacity to use the behavior of President Clinton as a campaign tool, claiming sex with someone other than your spouse was something not to be ignored by good, moral Americans. And now we find out the good, moral, Christian senator has been engaging in illicit sex with men for 25 years — nearly his entire married life! The Idaho Statesmen newspaper published years of investigation concerning the senator’s history of a secret homosexual life.
In 1982, Senator Craig published a report to pre-empt reports of him engaging in homosexual acts. Since then investigative reporters have been digging for the true information and the Idaho Statesman, for many years, chose not to publish any of it because, until this past June, it didn’t interfere with Craig’s work as Idaho’s senior senator.
And probably worse yet: Senator Craig advertised himself to Idaho voters as someone he is not: a cultural conservative against the “homosexual agenda.” What I don’t get: Several TV pundits said they felt sorry for Craig because everyone was “piling on” the senator over this. Well — D’UH! The guy voted for every piece of anti-gay legislation that came up for a vote; won an award in Idaho for speaking out against the very behavior that got him arrested! Hell yeah everyone is piling on! The guy makes former Congressman Mark Foley look like a choir boy! Or is Foley chasing choir boys? Who knows ...
Yep … the party of family values …
I’m guessing that within seven days of this post, the good senator will have resigned his Senate seat; the Senate Republican leadership has forced him to resign all of his committee senior member positions and now two of his fellow Republican senators have called for him to resign altogether: Norm Coleman of Minnesota, who is facing Al Franken in a senatorial election next year, and John McCain, the Arizonian running for president.
And it would also be a good bet there will be a number of men who go public about their affairs with the senator and some will actually have proof. Then the man who claims he is not gay and that he hasn’t cheated on his wife will be outed for something indeed despicable — being a liar.
But thankfully, he isn’t under oath so his lying doesn’t count and of course, he’s a Republican so the fault lies with the Democrats anyway. If it wasn’t for them damn liberal Democrats, them abominable queers wouldn’t be so brazen about their desire to live like free Americans.
And then there was the announced departure of the Attorney General.Alberto Gonzales finally resigned … and the president referred to him as honorable and hard working? When it was his own party that called the lame-duck Attorney General a liar? The Director of the F.B.I. basically said testimony of the Attorney General, concerning Gonzales going to the bedside of the seriously ill John Ashcroft who was, at the time, the attorney general and Gonzales was White House Counsel; Robert Mueller III said Gonzales’s testimony was false.
It had to do with the warrantless wiretap program that is so egregious and detrimental the rights of Americans and the Constitution itself even John Ashcroft wouldn’t approve it! Gonzales and some other White House aids went to the bedside of the ailing Ashcroft to pressure him into approving the program, even though the duties of the Attorney General had been turned over to Ashcroft’s deputy, James Comey. In sworn testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gonzales claimed Ashcroft was “lucid” and “did most of the talking.” F.B.I. Director Mueller said that was false.
And who is the president going to nominate as the successor to Mr. I-Don’t-Recall? Michael Chertoff, the head of Homeland Security who, during Hurricane Katrina, told the president not too worry, everything was under control and then he himself went to a seminar at the National Institutes of Health in Atlanta as New Orleans was getting submerged under 20+ feet of water and the entire Gulf Coast was flooded, 98% of homes, businesses and other buildings lost and the residents left with virtually no help for five days as the once vaunted FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Administration) was left dithering in the wind with no resources in place and a horse show official trying to manage it all. Michael Brown—Brownie—wasn’t really at fault. Not alone anyway. The guy the president wants as Attorney General had far more responsibility for the disaster that resulted from the hurricane than anyone else.It doesn’t end there of course. The tragedy of New Orleans wasn’t the result of Hurricane Katrina alone, the main cause was the failure of the levees, a federal project, funded by our tax dollars. If the levees hadn’t failed 80% of New Orleans would not have been flooded under 20 feet of water. One more point: nearly 70% of the people stranded in New Orleans were working men and women who barely made enough money to survive and certainly didn’t have the means to evacuate the city prior to the hurricane.
This is important because a noted Black, conservative minister claims the people stranded in New Orleans were Blacks unaccustomed to working and therefore dependent upon the government for sustenance and support. The facts just contradict that fantasy. It’s been a hateful myth these past two years that the majority of those stranded in New Orleans were there simply because they were institutionalized welfare recipients.
I actually know a Playboy model who is a native of New Orleans. She chose to ride out the storm, as she had for previous storms, thinking she would be safe. Taryn Terrell became one of those stranded and desperate residents. It wasn’t the hurricane that got her; it was the failure of the levees. Just a disclaimer for the sake of Taryn: She might or might not share my political views, I don’t really know, but we both agree she would be a fabulous Playmate! Tell Playboy you agree!
Two years after that breach of the levees, the government has spent billions of our tax dollars yet most of the neighborhoods are still in a shambles and less than half the students who were in the public schools before Katrina have returned. The Army Corps of engineers, the people who built the new levees, doubt the levees will be able to sustain another storm similar to Katrina, let alone a stronger storm that could make a direct hit on the city. Where did that money go? To Mississippi, which itself needed federal relief, but that state got twice as much relief per capita than Louisiana.
“Why,” you ask? The governor is Haley Barbour, once an official in the Reagan and Bush 41 adminisrations. The governor of Louisiana and the mayor of New Orleans are both Democrats and were (are) very critical of the president and his administration over Bush’s now institutional incompetence. Someone please step up to the plate and claim that is just a coincidence.
It’s institutional because it is systemic in every department of the president’s administration; from Homeland Security (disaster preparedness and relief) to Defense (duh! Iraq!), State (Didn’t do anything to prevent or stop the war between Israel and Hezbollah among other failures), Justice (“I don’t recall”), Commerce (the trade deficit with China is just one example) ... the list could go on.
Yesterday, to commemorate the two year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the president skulked into New Orleans unannounced and told the residents — the ones allowed to see his speech — their concerns about no progress in New Orleans were unfounded because — and this would be funny if there weren’t so many Big Easy residents still suffering from this president’s incompetence — they, the residents, were living in New Orleans and therefore couldn’t see the incremental progress being made to rebuild the city. There’s a reason the president has to sneak into this American city as if he’s visiting Baghdad: he is so hated by the vast majority of the population, announcing his visit would have been an invitation to thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of angry people to gather and protest and disrupt what otherwise would be another fine photo-op for the president and his moron wife.One thousand, four hundred sixty confirmed dead and over 100 still missing. The Ninth Ward still largely unlivable, although some brave souls are doing it anyway since help doesn’t seem to be coming their way. Bush can spend billions a week fighting his war of choice in Iraq, but he can’t rebuild New Orleans. Two years after that horrific failure of government, The Big Easy is still a disaster.
Happy Anniversary New Orleans.
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