From Wide Stance to Series of Tubes
Posted by Michael Link on October 17, 2007 at 11:49 AM
The excuses just keep on coming from Senator Larry Craig. No longer content with his first tale -- that he simply uses a "wide stance" -- he's now claiming he didn't know about the bathroom's history because he doesn't use the Internet.
Essentially, he's claiming to have about the same understanding of the Internet as his "Series of Tubes" colleague, so he couldn't have known about the restroom's online reputation.
The Examiner says not to believe it:
» In an op-ed he wrote this summer on the SCHIP health care program, Craig refers to doing a Google search on the term “mission creep.”
» He’s a member of the Congressional Internet Caucus.
» He co-sponsored a bill designating June 2007 as National Internet Safety Month.
» He was presented with the 2007 Internet Keep Safe Coalition Award.
» On his Web site, he lists as a top accomplishment a Silver Mouse Award given to his site in 2003 and 2006 by the Congressional Management Foundation in 2003 and 2006.
» When he endorsed Mitt Romney for president, he did so on YouTube.
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As I watched Larry Craig speaking on the Lauer interview, I couldn't help but look hard at his face and note the manner of speech. He was condescending and full of conceit.
Is he the true face of a whole sub-culture of sexually-repressed men in this country who can't acknowlege their orientation? Or is he just a tyrant?
Is he and so many others like him so stubborn that they would drag their wives and families through one farce performance after another to uphold a lie?
If so, how many of these arrogant, spiteful men are in positions of power? How do they control our daily lives just as they do their families...the ones they say they love?
It's really time we face the demons. If Craig thinks continuing the exploitation of his family is winning him any brownie points, he's sadly deceiving himself. Those that frequent those restrooms looking for intimacy with strangers (which they can't seem to expericence with those in their personal lives) are going to continue to be a hot topic of discussion because of his denial.
Perhaps it will encourage some of them to look for counseling that will lead to a breakthrough. Perhaps it will wrongly toss them into the same category as pedifiles. Either way, I can no longer abide the rampid, continuing ridicule being bandied around among the press.
The secret is out. Those in politics who have been dealing in clandestine trysts of all kinds are no longer safe from public scrutiny. It's only a matter of time before the Jeff Gannon connection to the White House will be exposed in the MSM.
Family values hypocracy is best dealt with out in the open. Only through an open discussion of alternative lifestyles and attempts to understand can we get past the "sinful" rheteric.
The GOP has used their wedge strategy to keep good people of faith from realizing the suffering and discrimination exerienced by those who have been forced to live a lie. And they have made scapegoats of those who courageously step forward demanding to be treated as equals under the law. It has to stop.
The Larry Craigs in high places can no longer be allowed to punish others for their own inability to acknowledge the conflicts in their own lives.
I can't understand why Larry Craig continues to hurt his family in this way nor why they allow him to do it. But he needs to quit fanning the flames of discrimination among others. Public policy cannot be based on personal conflicts.
GOP stands for Greedy Old Perverts! Craig has no butt because he's lied his butt off! What's new?
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