Sell the Streets and Drop the Bomb
Humor, Larry Craig, Libertarianism
Libertarian Jeremy Lott identifies the issue we really should be caring about in the Larry Craig case.
Hat tip to John Brewer.
Category Archive 'Larry Craig'
14 Sep 2007
Sell the Streets and Drop the BombHumor, Larry Craig, LibertarianismLibertarian Jeremy Lott identifies the issue we really should be caring about in the Larry Craig case. Hat tip to John Brewer. 10 Sep 2007
Even Liberals Think Larry Craig Should Not ResignHistory, Larry Craig, Senate, US ConstitutionChicago Journalist Roger Simon of the Politico (not Roger L. Simon, the mystery writer and conservative blogger) does not like conservative Senator Larry Craig one bit, but even the liberal Simon thinks Craig should fight to keep his Senate seat.
09 Sep 2007
Constitution Forbade Craig ArrestLarry Craig, The Law, US ConstitutionBryan Fischer points out one little detail which we in the blogosphere and the MSM both absentmindedly overlooked. And he’s quite right.
This little detail (which I should have remembered, having discussed it myself in relation to the FBI search of Congressman Jefferson’s office) provides quite a plot twist. It is difficult to imagine a court seeing any alternative to throwing out that Minneapolis misdemeanor on Constitutional grounds. Senator Craig, therefore, winds up with no conviction, and does not need to resign. The State of Idaho, and the rest of America, gets to retain the services of a senator with a 96 ACU rating. A happy ending for all but the democrats. 05 Sep 2007
Republicans Should Not Resign Over SexDemocrats, Larry Craig, Michelle Malkin, Politics, RepublicansMichelle Malkin isn’t happy that Larry Craig is reconsidering that resignation. Think about it, Michelle. We can’t afford to operate this way. Democrats don’t resign over sex scandals. They only use them to force Republicans out of office. Do you remember Bob Livingstone? The slimy pimp Larry Flynt hired private detectives to hunt for Republican pecadillos he could use to avenge the impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton for perjury, and Rep. Livingstone immediately resigned, giving up the Speakership of the House, as soon as news of his marital infidelity was released. Politicians are human, alzumenschlich commonly in fact. Are only democrat adulterers, only democrats who spend time in the company of prostitutes, only leftwing and democrat homosexuals to be allowed to remain in public office? If only sinners in private life who are democrats get to survive in office, we are probably conceding a permanent democrat majority. 05 Sep 2007
Maybe Somebody Listens to Us After AllDemocrats, Larry Craig, Politics
Earlier posting: LARRY CRAIG SHOULD NOT RESIGN The press is full of nonsense this morning about the imaginary negative impact of all this upon Republican political prospects. Even if Senator Craig were guilty of soliciting sex in men’s rooms (which is far from proven), what do the private actions of a single individual have to do with the overall standing of a national political party? Members of the democrat party in Congress include Senator Edward Kennedy who has served almost four decades in the Senate after being convicted of the considerably more serious offense of leaving the scene of a fatal automobile accident, and House Members Alcee Hastings, removed from the federal bench for bribery and perjury; William Jefferson, currently under federal indictment for corruption; John Murtha, who survived being named an unindicted conspirator in the Abscam scandal; and Barney Frank, who hired a gay prostitute and then allowed him to operate a prostitution service out of his Washington apartment. What would a democrat party member of Congress do if he found himself the subject of a scandal? What would Bill Clinton do? The answer is: they would fight back. Bill Clinton would turn the tables on his accusers, claiming to be the victim of an unfair and highly partisan attack. And Larry Craig is certainly in an excellent position to make the same claim. It was no accident that the Minneapolis June arrest report reached the desk of Roll Call on August 27th. Senator Craig has been the victim of an organized effort at political assassination. 04 Sep 2007
If Larry Craig Really is Gay, is He a Hypocrite?Homosexual Rights, Larry CraigJonah Goldberg doesn’t think so, and debunks the arguments of James Kirchuk who does.
02 Sep 2007
Steyn and Levin on the Craig ResignationLarry Craig, Police Misbehavior, RepublicansMark Steyn reflects upon the entrapment of Larry Craig.
Mark R. Levin offers some bitter remarks.
Hat tip to Richard Falknor. 02 Sep 2007
Ben Stein on the Minneapolis Police Entrapment of Larry CraigLarry Craig, Police Misbehavior, RepublicansBen Stein had some sensible remarks, which I quite agree with, on Fox News with Neil Cavuto. The clip is, unfortunately, derisively linked by the left, so please ignore the monkey noises and watch out for thrown feces as you approach the cage. 01 Sep 2007
The Speech Larry Craig Should Have GivenLarry Craig, PoliticsJohn Cole believes that Senator Craig really was sexually soliciting, which I do not. But if John Cole was right, I would agree that his proposed speech is nearly exactly what Larry Craig ought to have said.
Read the whole thing. 01 Sep 2007
Larry Craig Should Not ResignConservative Movement, Crime, Homosexuality, Larry Craig, Police Misbehavior, Politics, RepublicansI know a black sheep old-time member of the Conservative Movement, who would often complain lugubriously over his cups (in relation to the unhappy consequences to his conservative career of his own pecadillos) that “the Conservative Movement does not know how to tend its wounded or bury its dead.” I was tempted to apply that observation to the behavior of Republicans in the case of Senator Larry Craig, but listening to the 8:23 Minneapolis police tape (NY Times transcript) it isn’t even obvious to me that Senator Craig was genuinely wounded. In the first place, it is perfectly clear that no sex, not even any explicit sexual proposition, ever actually occurred. It is also clear that the covert signals Senator Craig supposedly made were in dispute between himself and Sergeant Karsnia, the arresting officer, and that Karsnia’s version features at least one very major implausibility. Karsnia claims that, as a signal, Craig reached below the divider between his bathroom stall and the stall to his right, with his left hand palm down, and rubbed the bottom of the divider. How could anyone possibly physically do that in the cramped confines of a typical public bathroom stall? It is also quite apparent, listening to the tape, that Karsnia is artfully and intensely manipulating Craig. He is continuing to sell Craig on the plea deal, and he is also doing his level best to persuade Craig to assent to his own preferred version of the facts. The tape does not contain the whole of their conversation, and the portion released was clearly made in order to support the guilty plea which had been previously negotiated. Common sense tells us that Karsnia must have threatened Craig with far more serious charges, charges involving the possibility of felony convictions, life-time sex offender status, public scandal and personal ruin, then offered a deal. In Karsnia’s deal, Craig would plead guilty only to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct. It would be like a speeding ticket. Craig would simply plead guilty to disorderly conduct, pay $575 in fine and court fees, and walk away a free man. He would even be able to catch his original flight. And, best of all, there would be no publicity, no scandal, no ruinous sexual charges. We can see just how well the Minneapolis Police Department kept its side of that plea bargain. So why should we believe one of its members’ allegations of about intrinsically ambiguous signals? Just how plausible is it that a married 62-year-old Senator is in the habit of passing the time between changing planes by finding himself some sort of awkward and unseemly sexual encounter featuring heaven-only-knows whatever precise activity which may be conducted beneath the divider between two lavatory stalls? As Eric at Classical Values observes, that this is the second major national sex scandal involving a Congressional Republican with no actual sex. The problem is not one of Republicans not knowing how to tend their wounded. The problem is that Republicans don’t know how to handle scandals, either defensively or offensively. The Administration’s opponents leak the highest level National Security secrets to the Press, and only one single Intelligence Community official is ever accused, no trial ever takes place. There are no convictions and no punishments. On the other hand, the mere identification of Ambassador Wilson’s wife’s role in assisting his trying to impeach British Intelligence reports of Saddam’s efforts to secure uranium (for a second time) from Niger, in democrat hands, shook the Bush Administration right down to its timid and quivering foundations. Barney Frank survived a gay prostitution ring being run from his Washington apartment by a gay prostitute he himself had previously hired. But, in the case of a Republican, it only takes a mere accusation for the Party leadership to run for cover, our own editorialists to demand summary execution, and the accused to slink away, his career permanently destroyed. Bill Clinton sexually exploited a 22-year-old White house intern, and the democrats persuaded a substantial portion of the public that it was downright evil of Republicans to pry into the President’s private sex life. Republicans need to develop the capacity both to take the heat of the unfair accusations of their adversaries without flinching and to fight back. Larry Craig has one of the best voting records in the Congress. I don’t personally care if he has a habit of enjoying relations with Idaho sheep by the light of the full moon, and I’m skeptical that he is guilty of anything in Minneapolis. I hope that he will tough it out, and not resign. Feeds
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