A rare moment from the Times. It's pro-gay stance triumphed over partisanship.

The Republicans will find it very difficult to ever be a majority party of they are willing to cast aside sitting representatives based on misdemeanor charges or mere accusations.   United States Senate seats don't grow on trees. 

The Democrats know all they have to do is sit back and smile. The Republicans will consume their own.   It is one thing to cast aside members convicted of felonies. But accusations, innuendo, violations and misdemeanors? Would the House belong to the Democrats if Gingrich and Delay were still there. Principle without effectiveness is for the indolent and idle.

 I know it's a crime to park in a handicap zone.

How much is the fine for pooping in a handicap toilet?

Assuming while pinching I don't step over the line.

CROCK

Entitlement over infrastructure every SINGLE time.

IT'S NOT "STUPIDITY." This is a politically-incorrect (for both sides of the aisle now...) case of why "the closet" is dangerous. Considering my homie BJ-Bob and now Senator Tappinfoot's incident, I might start trying to rename "the closet" to something more-accurate, like "the men's room." Craig, it seems, unless you think that cop's a liar, has SOMETHING TO HIDE which (when combined with a high-level security clearance....) can be a very dangerous thing to US national security.

I mean, let's face it, I have almost-0 "gaydar," but even-I wasn't exactly shocked when Barney Frank finally got around to admitting he was/is gay. These closet-homos are different -- it always starts for me with about 2-3 seconds of shock at the incident because mensrooms happen to be disgusting. This is followed immediately by an assessment of humor-potential, which generally lasts 2-3 weeks. As I've said, Florida's BJ Bob incident still takes the gold for joke-material, but just barely.

The closet-homos simply behave differently than the "out" homosexuals I know. Out ones, frankly, act a lot more like heterosexual couples act as far as keeping it in the bedroom is concerned. IMO this closet vs non-closet security risk escapes the NYT in their reflexive bias, and they're not thinking this through due to that bias.
JMR

PS Mark, if you're avoiding something relatively-tame chorus allusions, you might also want to avoid using the words "get behind me" anywhere NEAR the Sen. Tappinfoot story, if you know what I mean! ;)

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Did you ever think you would see the day that the NYT ecitorial board would be arguing against throwing out a Republican senator????

This is hilarious. They are really stuck between a rock and a hard place. How to disparage a Republican Senator without alienating gays. As long as there's a chance Craig might come out and say that he's "gay", they have to hedge their bets. The undercover cop wasn't pretending to be underage, so they can't spin this as a pedophilia, rather than a homosexual issue.

So, the gay agenda wins, for the moment at least.

Incredibly, when you think of it ... Was Craig arrested for coming up to an undercover male police officer and saying something along the lines of: "Hey, you have GREAT buns ... what to have sex?" No. Sgt. Dave Karsnia says that "... he recognized Craig's hand gesture as a signal aimed at initiating sex."

Later in his report, Karsnia wrote that the gestures were consistent with efforts to find a sexual partner in the men's room.

Later in the story, we lear that Sgt. Karsnia has "arrested at least a dozen men in the airport's bathroom for sending signals he believed were aimed at initiating sex. Each time, Karsnia walked suspects to a spot where they could speak privately, without embarrassing them.." Can we infer from that, as Karsnia did from gestures only, that he is just lurking around men's rooms?

Did they use to call this "entrapment" .. Which apparently is the excepted norm of police procedure.

So was the NYT correct in saying that Craig was guilty of stupidity .. I would say - yes -- Stupid for pleading guilty to the reduced charge of disorderly conduct.

I also found it interesting, a comment that Karsnia made on the tape.. "Embarrassing, embarrassing. No wonder why we're going down the tubes." Political motivation??? Gee, if so, couldn't "profiling" be argued?

Just so no one can get the wrong idea ... this entire comment was written with my hands in my pockets ... didn't want to give the wrong message. Good God, wait a minute ..... many of you might not be old enough to remember this expression ... If my hands are in my pocket, that might be consistent with "playing pocket pool."

(sorry for the pun).

Does the NYT miss or is it just closing it's eyes to the fact that the real issue is that the Senator lied to police and and then lied to prosecuters by pleading guilty to something he didn't do, or..., is lying now aboput whether he did it. IMO, this has nothing to do with whether he's gay, straight, or whatever, it has to do about trust in an elected official.

Let's not forget that Sen. TappinFoot has a history of cruising for gay sex in men's rooms as compiled by various sources, one of them his hometown newspaper.  His somewhat tortured and lame explanation as heard on the audio recording doesn't exactly inspire one to assume he is innocent.  He obviously appears to be attemting to explain his way out of a bad situation.  I think it's called "doing the backstroke". Where is the indignation that an innocent person would be expressing?  Who among us would venture to reach down to the floor for a piece of toilet paper in a public restroom?  What was he going to do with it?  Yuck.

I knew that word was going to come out sooner or later.  Those evil, intolerant Republicans.

Funny, I don't feel intolerant. 

God Made man, but a monkey supplied the glue

We've heard a lot about hypocrisy concerning Craig (i.e. Matthews saying deviant, etc.)

But to me the most striking hypocrisy is the way the Republicans on the Hill have handled this scandle as opposed to the Vitter scandal.

Vitter suffered minimal backlash as a result of his heterosexual, extra-marital affairs with a prostitute.

So why all the calls for Craig to resign? 

Because he was hitting on a man.  That's the only reason.  If he had been cruising a park for a femal prostitute, apparently nobody in the Republican party would care.