From Pine View Farm

No One Can Make This Stuff Up 4

Subtitle: From Pariah to Laughingstock.

Once again, Republicans defy imagination. This beats Wilbur Mills jumping in the reflecting pool by two light years and a parsec.

Not satisfied with a mug shot of himself having been arrested for soliciting sex in an airport bathroom, Craig has now produced a voice mail message intended for his lawyer, Billy Martin, but accidentally left on someone else’s answering machine (I am not making this up!). In the recording, Craig announces his PR plan for stonewalling calls for his resignation. Roll Call has the scoop, but just to make sure it doesn’t vanish–we have the mp3, too.

Once again, to beat a position to death:

It ain’t the sex.

It’s the hypocrisy.

Via Kos.

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4 comments

  1. Opie

    September 5, 2007 at 10:05 pm

    From what I have learned after my initial puzzlement about the reaction to this incident, the reason the police were conducting the sting in that restroom was because men were not just pickup up men there and leaving to have sex elsewhere, they were doing it in that very restroom. So when you say it ain’t the sex, do you mean you have no judgments on the matter of homosexual relations in public restrooms?

     
  2. Frank

    September 6, 2007 at 8:00 pm

    I have this judgement on homosexual relations in public restrooms:

    If someone bothers me while I’m in a public restroom, I’m calling the cops, not because of anyone’s sexual desires, but because I’ve been bothered.

    Beyond that, I don’t care whether a man likes men, or whether a woman likes women. I’ve known both men who like men and women who like women, and, in either case, they probably didn’t have any choice. In neither case am I threatened in any way.

    It’s a whole nother thing to go soliciting gay sex in a public restroom while also having a history of supporting laws against homosexuality.

    I can understand why a gay person would not broadcast his or her preference. There is no hypocrisy in laying low in a society that hates you.

    Moral weakness, perhaps, but not hypocrisy.

    There is hypocrisy in doing X while also supporting legislation against doing X.

    Craig is a hypocrite.

    Needless to say, he found himself in a political party where he can feel right at home.

     
  3. Opie

    September 6, 2007 at 10:06 pm

    Should the police, then, attempt to put a stop to gay sex occurring in public restrooms?

     
  4. Karen

    September 9, 2007 at 6:38 pm

    There should be NO sex in any public place. Gay, or straight. That’s what rooms are for.