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Is Larry Craig The Face Of The US Senate? (Dems Inouye, Cantwell, Frank, Robb, Etc Also Discussed
Human Events ^ | 8/29/07 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 08/29/2007 4:33:58 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist

On Monday, August 27, news services broke the story that Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, pleaded guilty in early August to lewd conduct in an airport restroom...

Craig is hardly the only member of the Senate with a propensity for dropping his pants at inopportune moments...

Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, has allegedly sexually harrased or abused at least 10 women. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., reportedly engaged in a sexual affair with an engagd lobbyist, Ron Dotzauer,then gave him a personal loan to help him with his subsequent divorce and threw cash his way...

Gerry Studds (re-elected six times after having sex with a male congressional page), Barney Frank (re-elected eight times after his gay lover ran a male escort ring out of his apartment), Mel Reynolds (re-elected despite facing an indictment for sexual assault and criminal sexual abuse of a 16-year-old campaign worker), Sen. Charles Robb (re-elected despite credible sex scandal allegations), and Gus Savage (re-elected despite fondling a Peace Corps volunteer).

(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii; US: Nevada; US: New York; US: Washington
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
If you say that Larry Craig should resign, then you must also say that Frank, Cantwell, and Inouye must resign, too.

Yes. Then again, one could argue that Frank et al represent their constituents values while Craig no longer does.

61 posted on 08/30/2007 10:06:25 AM PDT by NeoCaveman ("I mean, he's gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week." - Romney on B. Hussein Obama)
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To: VxH
So you want ambassadors to be elected now?

Well, start a popular movement. Maybe you can convince the voters who will then get legislators in to pass the bill.

Though I doubt you will succeed.

62 posted on 08/30/2007 10:16:25 AM PDT by what's up
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To: GraniteStateConservative
Well, no one knew who the hell he was a week ago

No, just the rabble didn't know.

Craig has appeared innumerable times over the years defending conservative positions. Anyone really paying attentions to politics and not just the scandal au jour knows Craig.

63 posted on 08/30/2007 10:18:17 AM PDT by what's up
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To: what's up

That’s what “no one” means. It doesn’t literally mean no one. It means everyone except fans of his area of experience (politics, in this case). How many voters really pay attention to politics. FR would have a couple of million members if they did.


64 posted on 08/30/2007 10:23:29 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

No, I want republicans to stand up for good government within the whole Congress, I blame republicans for lettingh the democrats get so bad without challenging them.


65 posted on 08/30/2007 10:25:26 AM PDT by Williams
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To: Wolfstar; Laissez-faire capitalist
And Jesus said he who is without sin, cast the first stone. Democrats don't embrace their sinners, they excuse them. Republicans don't cast out their sinners, they throw them over board lest they get tarred with the same brush. I think, between the two, at least I can admire the Dems' loyalty and courage in not abandoning or kicking their own when they are down.

Larry Craig lied about who he was. He has been elected over and over because he told his constituents he wasn't interested in having sexual encounters with men. The fact that he's gay is secondary. His whole life is a lie. The GOP and voters should go after people who are total liars like Craig. Homosexuality isn't even in the 10 Commandments and Jesus never said anything about it. That's not the case with lying, and this wasn't just some small fib, either.

66 posted on 08/30/2007 10:28:34 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: GraniteStateConservative
His whole life is a lie.

Oh, brother.

He stood steadfast in many, many conservative causes over the years including tax cuts, defense, etc. etc. etc. yet his whole life is a lie?

67 posted on 08/30/2007 10:30:50 AM PDT by what's up
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To: what's up
[we have the power to vote our people out.]
 
That's an illusion.
 
The people of Kalifornistan recalled Grey Davis, and voted for Ahhhnuld - and Ameriquest bought them both.
 
 
 
KEEPER:  What is your favorite color?
 
ROLAND ARNALL: Green
 
KEEPER: What is your political party?
 
ROLAND ARNALL:  Democrat, no wait, Republican... auuuuuuuug!
 
 
 
Centrist parasites have infested Washington.   How do we toss them into the chasm?

68 posted on 08/30/2007 10:31:39 AM PDT by VxH (One if by Land, Two if by Sea, and Three if by Wire Transfer)
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To: what's up
I've already seen countless comments on FR saying the whole GOP is corrupt.

It's a rare individual who can be handed that degree of power and not be changed by it. Even if they're not as far gone as the Dems, the Pubbies still have too much crap floating around for my tastes.

69 posted on 08/30/2007 10:32:01 AM PDT by TChris (Has anyone under Mitt Romney's leadership ever been worse off because he is Mormon?)
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To: Shermy

I make no apologies about being informed about the culture of the nation I live in, the bad stuff and the good stuff. I don’t have to hang out at gay bars or look at gay porn sites to learn generally about gay Americans. There are plenty of written reports all over the internet. I’m a Dad. It’s my responsibility to know about the crap my kids might come into contact with.


70 posted on 08/30/2007 10:32:21 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Democrats like to point the finger at Republicans who they say fell from family values after running on it.

A Republican hypocrite is preferable to any Democrat.

A hypocrite, after all, at least knows the difference between right and wrong...

71 posted on 08/30/2007 10:34:24 AM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
"Christians should remember that Larry Craig does not represent the Republican Party."

I take exception to this. Today's Republican elected leaders are from the same moral & ethical mold as the Dims and they have proved it month after month for the last 6 years.

72 posted on 08/30/2007 10:34:42 AM PDT by moonman
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To: TChris
It's a rare individual who can be handed that degree of power and not be changed by it.

Obviously..since time immemorial.

However, our party has gotten partial birth abortion banned, got Saddam removed, got the Taliban removed, got Libya to give up WMD, saved the US from Kyoto and a World Court, got huge tax cuts, built up the military, etc. etc. etc.

Repubs are far, far different from Democrats.

73 posted on 08/30/2007 10:39:45 AM PDT by what's up
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To: VxH
and Ameriquest bought them both

Yeah...right.

And no one else had any say in the matter whatsoever.

74 posted on 08/30/2007 10:41:20 AM PDT by what's up
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To: AprilfromTexas

Uh, yea that. Those term limit thing-a-ma-jiggies. Right, we’ll get right on that. <<>> Regards, Sen. Kennedy


75 posted on 08/30/2007 10:44:47 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: what's up
“And that’s why our political system is superior”

“Their stuck with bad influences sometimes for decades or longer.”

Wow! great insight. Bad behavior has always been there...so what? Okie dokie then.

Ted Kennedy.............how many years has he been in power?

The point to the Dell analogy.......oh never mind.

Go on to the trough like a good lil sheep.

76 posted on 08/30/2007 10:57:18 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: what's up

Yep. His life has been a total lie. Whether you like to suck off men or take it in the rear is pretty fundamental about who you are. That he voted right is irrelevant. He’s an old man with not many more years left. He could have been living those years as a happy openly gay man. It’s sad that he wasted all those years in personal despair.


77 posted on 08/30/2007 10:58:53 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

The House of Lords needs a total revamp - reduction of salaries and benefits and term limits of two terms in a lifetime.


78 posted on 08/30/2007 10:59:06 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: what's up
[and Ameriquest bought them both

"Yeah...right."]

It's all in plain sight:

"Since Schwarzenegger took office in 2003, he alone has pulled in more than $1.5 million from Ameriquest, Roland Arnall and his wife, Dawn. Ameriquest also has given $1.5 million to groups backing the governor's political efforts and, along with the Arnalls, has contributed $1.5 million to the California Republican Party."

But wait...

Roland Arnall, owner of the company's parent, is a widely recognized and generous donor to the Democratic Party. In fact, party pal and former governor of California Gray Davis actually officiated at Arnall's wedding in 2000.

 

Hmmm... Quack quack, waddle waddle....

 


79 posted on 08/30/2007 11:06:44 AM PDT by VxH (One if by Land, Two if by Sea, and Three if by Wire Transfer)
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To: GraniteStateConservative
OK...I can see clearly how much you hate gays. You don't have to get explicit about what they do to each other...I get the idea.

However, Craig's political votes were cast in favor of tax cuts, defense, etc. Don't see how he lied about that since he campaigned on those things.

80 posted on 08/30/2007 11:16:04 AM PDT by what's up
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