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A Funnier Take on Sen. Wide Stance
I like Eric Scheie's take on the Larry Craig scandal better then my own. (But there are similarities.)
Writes Scheie:
I realize that there are things missing in this analysis, and of course the biggest problem is that it does not involve actual sex, but the perception of sex. In that respect, Craig's "sex" is like the nonexistent sex of Mark Foley, whose crime was not sex, but sending suggestive emails. (Or Vitter, whose name was found in an address book.) . . .
What is it with these guys that they can't even run a proper sex scandal?
Who ever heard of sex scandals without sex?
At least when the Democrats have a sex scandal, it involves real, honest to goodness sex. Yeah, I know, Bill Clinton said the sex wasn't sex. But let's face it, it was. Had Bill tapped Monica's foot, the most he'd have been accused of was playing footsie, and there'd have been little to no outcry, much less an impeachment. And as Matthew Sheffield makes clear, the double standard is appalling; Democrats keep their jobs after drowning women in cars or keeping male brothels, while Republicans are hounded out of office for sex scandals without even the component of sex.
If I were the American people, I'd be totally sick of sexless Republican sex scandals by now.
The GOP needs to shape up.
UPDATE: Now this guy knows how to throw a good sex scandal, with sex and everything.
Writes Scheie:
I realize that there are things missing in this analysis, and of course the biggest problem is that it does not involve actual sex, but the perception of sex. In that respect, Craig's "sex" is like the nonexistent sex of Mark Foley, whose crime was not sex, but sending suggestive emails. (Or Vitter, whose name was found in an address book.) . . .
What is it with these guys that they can't even run a proper sex scandal?
Who ever heard of sex scandals without sex?
At least when the Democrats have a sex scandal, it involves real, honest to goodness sex. Yeah, I know, Bill Clinton said the sex wasn't sex. But let's face it, it was. Had Bill tapped Monica's foot, the most he'd have been accused of was playing footsie, and there'd have been little to no outcry, much less an impeachment. And as Matthew Sheffield makes clear, the double standard is appalling; Democrats keep their jobs after drowning women in cars or keeping male brothels, while Republicans are hounded out of office for sex scandals without even the component of sex.
If I were the American people, I'd be totally sick of sexless Republican sex scandals by now.
The GOP needs to shape up.
UPDATE: Now this guy knows how to throw a good sex scandal, with sex and everything.
posted by Spencerblog at
9:32 PM
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You are no longer judged by your actions, you are judged by your political affiliation. Any action right, wrong, moral or immoral, will be defended by one's own party and damned by the opposition and CNN.
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From Wikipedia: "Almost every state in the United States has a disorderly conduct law that makes it a crime to be drunk in public, to "disturb the peace", or to loiter in certain areas. Many types of obnoxious or unruly conduct may fit the definition of disorderly conduct, as such statutes are often used as "catch-all" crimes. Police may use a disorderly conduct charge to keep the peace when people are behaving in a disruptive manner to themselves or others, but present no serious public danger. Disorderly conduct is typically classified as a misdemeanor."
So who else other than the officer and Craig were in that bathroom?
I am a woman, and I admit I just don't understand all the men's room rules. Don't look, avert your eyes, leave space at the urinal etc. And I certainly don't understand the whole "hand jive', bag placement rules... and I don't know Sen. Craig's sexual preference; or really care about it.
But I don't like the idea of police staking out bathrooms looking for men who might be asking other men if they want to be more initmate.
Surely there are more important safety issues in our nations' airports than man on man sex.
Minn/ St. Paul is the airport the five Imans flew from; is the airport where Muslim taxi drivers refuse to carry passangers with liquor and or seeing eye dogs.
And the police there are playing their on version of Gay, Straight or Taken
But I don't like the idea of police staking out bathrooms looking for men who might be asking other men if they want to be more initmate.
Surely there are more important safety issues in our nations' airports than man on man sex.
Well said!
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