Rich: Pardon Poor Larry Craig

[RamboLiberal]

I DID nothing wrong," said Larry Craig at the start of his long national nightmare as America's favorite running, or perhaps sitting, gag. That's the truth. Justice lovers of all sexual persuasions must rally to save the Idaho senator before he is forced to prematurely evacuate his seat.

Time's running out. The final reckoning may arrive this week. On Wednesday, a Minnesota court will hear Mr. Craig's argument to throw out the guilty plea he submitted by mail after being caught in a June sex sting in the Minneapolis airport. If he succeeds, there's a chance he might rescind his decision to resign from the Senate on Sept. 30. Either way, he should hold tight.

Not only did the senator do nothing wrong, but in scandal he has proved the national treasure that he never was in his salad days as a pork-seeking party hack. In the past month he has served as an invaluable human Geiger counter for hypocrisy on the left and right alike. He has been an unexpected boon not just to the nation's double-entendre comedy industry but to the imploding Republican Party. Gays, not all of them closeted, may be among the last minority groups with some representation in the increasingly monochromatic G.O.P. If it is to muster even a rainbow-lite coalition for 2008, it could use Larry Craig in the trenches.

On the legal front, Mr. Craig is not without his semi-spirited defenders, an eclectic group including Arlen Specter, the A.C.L.U., The Washington Post's editorial page and scattered Democrats. While there's widespread agreement that Mr. Craig was an idiot not to consult a lawyer before entering a guilty plea (for disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor carrying a $575 fine), idiocy is no more a federal offense than hypocrisy, especially in Washington.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/opinion/23rich.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[Buzz Clik]

1. This is from The Onion, right? I mean this is a joke. Right?

[Faygo Kid]

2. I had hoped Frank would write this week about the MoveOn Senate vote, but what the hell.

Why bother to write about Iraq anymore? He's done everything possible to point out the insanity of this war, and for all his exhortations, we get 22 Senate Dems voting to condemn their supporters. I wouldn't blame Frank if he never wrote about the war again.

It sure doesn't seem to matter anymore. Bush gets whatever he wants from here on out, including Iran. He knows that now. That clock is ticking, and we are getting very close to that attack.

[sam sarrha]

3. i now seek out public toilets and with felt pen on the seat tissue box i inscribe

Republican Campaign Hats... tap foot to make a contribution:rofl: :patriot:

[sam sarrha]

4. "I did nothing Wrong"... cause he got busted 'before' he could use the Glory hole

[Demit]

5. As a point of law, Craig may well be innocent. It won't kill us if this is found to be true.

His longtime lie exposed, his personal reputation forever tainted, his career shattered and rightfully so. He doesn't, in my view, "win". He will have clarified a certain class of rights for us—thanks, Larry!—but he will be forever remembered as a figure of ridicule. He loses what was most important to him, living his lie.