The true hypocrisy of the Larry Craig scandal(warning, angry rant)

[backscatter712]

I'm fucking sick and tired of hearing about Sen. Larry Craig. You know what the worst part is?

The hypocrisy.

Not Sen. Craig's hypocrisy - that's bad enough.

I'm talking about the worse hypocrisy - the hypocrisy perpetuated by Democrat and Republican alike.

They're throwing Craig under the bus - his crime was pretty disgusting, but also pretty trivial in the larger scheme of things. All he did was solicit sex in a bathroom, and the media, and our politicians can't shut the fuck up about it.

At the same time, they're silent and complicit with the real criminals, starting with the one that lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Nobody died when Senator Craig tapped his foot under the stall, then lied about it.

3,725 American servicemembers (or more, certainly more) and one million Iraqis are now dead because Bush and his cronies lied and we went to war. So many people are fucking DEAD, and our Congressional invertebrates can't bring themselves to give a shit!

And now we're on the verge of doing it again, in Iran, which will likely kill hundreds of thousands more innocent civilians, break our military completely after it was stretched beyond limits in Iraq, and possibly start World War III. Also on lies.

They're directly responsible for the torture, indefinite detention and other grave human rights violations at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Bagram and elsewhere.

They're directly responsible for the deaths and injuries and homelessness created by the extreme negligence in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

But when we demand that the President be impeached and that his staff be forced out of office and face criminal prosecutions for their crimes, we get jack and shit.

Pelosi says impeachment is off the table. Conyers weighs his Constitutional responsibilities with a fucking calculator, and decides that winning elections is more important than defending the Constitution.

Dozens of Democrats continue to vote to enable our war criminal in chief, by ceding to him more of our Constitutional rights with the FISA act, and by giving him hundreds of billions of dollars of money we don't have to fight a war we cannot win.

Fucking hypocrites. Jumping all over Craig, but saying nothing about Bush! Fuck them all!

[Robbien]

1. Reading that Reid is working with the GOP on staying in Iraq

and Schumer saying that he fully supports this extra $50 billion

and Cheney arranging a full blown propaganda war with the GOP echo chamber on getting support of his attack on Iran

I'm with ya.

[lyonn]

2. Welcome backscatter, good rant

It appears we are back in the "god, gays and guns" days. No reality check with our representatives in Washington on the Real issues. And yes, all they are concerned with is the next election.

[BuyingThyme]

3. That's all? I thought he peeped in on a guy who was presumably taking a shit,

then tried to touch him.

Are we talking about the same guy?

[TahitiNut]

4. Apparently there's another Larry Craig who walked up to someone and said "let's screw."

We can't be talking about the Senator who peeped and then escalated by physically touching and intruding on a stranger's privacy - and then pled guilty. Nope. Can't possibly be the same one.

:eyes:

I'm shocked! Shocked that there's hypocrisy in D.C.! :wow:

[backscatter712]

5. Still, the end result of Craig's crime was little worse than a speeding ticket.

Certainly, what he did was disgusting and should be punished, but let me compare again...

Sexual harassment, war crimes...
Lewd conduct in a bathroom, death of a million people...
Solicitation of sex, violations of the Geneva Convention...

Hmmm... Just who are we howling over again?

[TahitiNut]

6. One does not exclude the other. Never has. Never will.

It's the "bicycle shed syndrome" ... folks discuss what they/we believe they/we can understand.

[backscatter712]

8. I just wish our Congresscritters would pay more attention to Bush's crimes.

They're deliberately looking the other way.

Larry Craig shows that when the politicos in DC throw someone under the bus, that person can end up being forced out of his position and losing everything incredibly quickly.

If Congress inexplicably decided to throw Bush and Cheney under the bus, he'd be under the spotlight instantly, and Pelosi would be President next week.

But they decided to throw Craig under the bus for peeping into a stall and trying to grope a man, yet the man who's responsible for the deaths of a million people gets to skate.

[lyonn]

7. Story time;

Yesterday, while talking to my youngest son who is working way too many hours a week to provide for his family, made a comment on how he had seen george speaking to a group of veterans and was amazed at how idiotic he spoke on the Viet Nam issue. He apparently sees very little news as he likes spending his free time doing the "family" thing. He has been a Democrat since registering to vote. His comment made it real clear how some people that don't have the time I do to keep up with the political happenings can miss the big picture in D.C. He thought he appeared crazy (to use my term).

Yes, gays/lesbians need rights. But all the issues you stated are critical. The way bushco is hacking on Iran and making statements that they must stop interfering in Iraq sounds like the conversation when there was the buildup to the Iraq war. It is BS and very little notice is taken of this type of chatter.

Bush and Cheney are leading us straight to hell if we don't pay attention. They have 1 1/2 years to do it.

[Junkdrawer]

9. Let's see....

Karl Rove basically turned the Executive Branch of the Federal Government into a full-time arm of the Republican Party...

Alberto Gonzales likewise turned the Federal Courts into a full-time arm of the Republican Party...

Pat Leahy's committee exposed them both and set the ground work for their impeachment and/or prosecution.

Then, within a week of each other, at the tail end of month long Congressional recess, they resign.

And less than a week after that, a 60 day old arrest of a Senator for soliciting in a public bathroom kills all other discussion in the press.

Yep, the reasonable thing to conclude is: coincidence.