(2007-09-05) — Idaho Republican Sen. Larry Craig, who is not gay, today announced that he had reconsidered his decision to leave the Senate following his reconsideration of his guilty plea to disorderly conduct charges related to his arrest in a men’s room in the Minneapolis Airport.
In a poignant memo to Senate colleagues, Sen. Craig said simply: “I can’t quit you.”
A spokesman, who insisted that Mr. Craig is not gay and was not trying to solicit a police officer in a men’s room stall, said that the Idaho lawmaker had initially announced his resignation from the Senate in hopes of avoiding publicity, and “to make the whole thing go away,” after he discovered that pleading guilty to a crime failed to make it go away.
“Essentially, Sen. Craig is still experimenting with ways to make previous mistakes vanish,” the unnamed source said. “If backing out of his resignation and revoking his guilty plea doesn’t work, he may apply for a refund on the airline ticket that took him to Minneapolis in the first place.”
38 responses so far ↓
1 camojack // Sep 5, 2007 at 8:04 am
Decided to tackle this touchy subject, eh?
2 camojack // Sep 5, 2007 at 8:04 am
Emphasis on “touchy”, of course…
3 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 5, 2007 at 8:12 am
God Bless America
4 camojack // Sep 5, 2007 at 8:18 am
I was wondering how long that’d take.
5 Just Ranting // Sep 5, 2007 at 8:27 am
I’m still not sure how someone in a men’s room stall signals to another man in a different stall that he’s in the mood for some … ummm … errr … well you know. Do they tap of the divider wall in morse code? Ask to squeeze the Charmin? Exchange special designed greeting cards under the divider?
I know this is a legitimate problem which, fortunately, I’ve never walked in on in my naive lifetime. I know Ft Lauderdale has been trying to flush this problem from their community for some time now. I guess I just can’t fathom why anyone would want to engage in this … activity … in such an unsanitary and public place. I give the Mayor of Ft Lauderdale credit for working with AIDS activists and local law enforcement to combat this. But no amount of AIDS education is going to stop someone so driven to this perversion (can we agree to call this what it is?) that they would engage in this degrading practice.
6 Maggie // Sep 5, 2007 at 8:48 am
Just Ranting…..re#5….your first paragraph is a hoot.
Songs such as “Knock three times on the ceiling if you want me” and “Happy feet” are two of the theme songs used on talk radio to introduce this topic.
7 Libby Gone // Sep 5, 2007 at 8:48 am
I wasn’t there so I can’t make an informed decision. I do however know there is no good answer to the question “Are you still beating your wife?” . Sometimes the seriousness of the charge supersedes the factual evidence. Plus there are, believe it or not, some over-zealous individuals in Law Enforcement driven by the meglamaniacal desire to destroy others. My jury is still out.
8 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 5, 2007 at 8:48 am
Well, this reminded me of the 1969 Led Zeppelin version of the 1956 Willie Dixon song I Can’t Quit You Baby and that’s okay but how is my brain cell going to disassociate this killer tune from an image of somebody’s hand coming at me under the stall divider?
ew
9 camojack // Sep 5, 2007 at 9:17 am
“…how is my brain cell going to disassociate this killer tune from an image of somebody’s hand coming at me under the stall divider?”
Comment by JamesonLewis3rd — September 5, 2007 @ 8:48 am
It really does give a whole new meaning to the Yellow Pages’ slogan:
Let your fingers do the walking.
10 conserve-a-tips // Sep 5, 2007 at 9:24 am
James, just hum This Guy’s In Love With You by Herb Alpert and think of the trumpet. That should do it.
Libby, my opinion is that we should let the Idaho voters take care of this. To me, at the very least, this guy’s sin was that if he wasn’t guilty, then he didn’t have the guts to stand up and say so, but just tried to “make it go away” by pleading guilty to a lesser charge. Who does that???? Well, except Democrats….but anyway, when it didn’t go away he started backpeddling and showing himself to be the spineless twit that he has been all along. And now he is flip-flopping on his decision to step down because Arlen ‘Spectator’ thinks he should fight it? I have a feeling Idahoans will take care of this guy.
It’s time all of us conservative voters take care of our “conservative” politicians if they ain’t.
11 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 5, 2007 at 9:32 am
YEEEEAAAARRRRGH!
Now Herb Alpert (gak) is stuck in my head…..
12 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 5, 2007 at 9:55 am
Umm, let me see-I think I suggested to Scott last Sunday to make this a family friendly news report that we should somehow get some Shirley Temple Tappity, tappity in there.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B000003DFG002001/ref=mu_sam_wma_002_001
I would say Tip Toe Through the Tulips instead but that is way gay.
Or we can get a little Gene Kelly and Donald O’Connor tapping thing going on.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B00006JOF3002004/ref=mu_sam_wma_002_004
13 Just Ranting // Sep 5, 2007 at 9:58 am
I don’t know if this means anything, but I just came from the Congressional men’s room and James Carville was in the next stall tapping his toe to “I Enjoy Being a Girl”. Senator John Edwards was in another stall humming, “I Feel Pretty”. Barney Frank was in the last stall tap dancing to “My Boy Lollipop”. It gave me a major case of the creeps.
14 conserve-a-tips // Sep 5, 2007 at 10:03 am
James, glad I could help.
15 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 5, 2007 at 10:03 am
Okay, this is the Shirley Tap Tap I was looking for, sorry (but animal crackers is just fine)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/wma-pop-up/B000003DFG003001/ref=mu_sam_wma_003_001
16 conserve-a-tips // Sep 5, 2007 at 10:13 am
Ms Rightwing, Ink:
Frankly, Poe comes to my mind. As in Edgar Allan? We’re talking bathrooms here…as in chamber pots of old…right? Well, take a gander at this! Chamber…mm-hm…short for chamber pot? Can we say, “solicitation” and denial?
From The Raven ~ While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“‘Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door-
Only this, and nothing more.”
17 its-just-me // Sep 5, 2007 at 10:17 am
And the Raven said “Eeeeewww!”
18 conserve-a-tips // Sep 5, 2007 at 10:35 am
It’s-Just-Me ~
19 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 5, 2007 at 10:35 am
How would this tap work on the restroom door
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGN2aa3oQRM -
20 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 5, 2007 at 10:44 am
I had a 1977 Michael Jackson clip of him dancin’ and ah’ singing to Puttin’ on the Ritz, but since this is family friendly………
21 GnuCarSmell // Sep 5, 2007 at 10:53 am
The moral:
Naughty in the outhouse gets you in the doghouse.
22 conserve-a-tips // Sep 5, 2007 at 11:01 am
Well, I’m rethinking my original post. Just caught the tail end of Glenn Beck and I have to say that he had a really good point. He said that when Craig pleaded guilty, he took an oath to tell the truth and nothing but the truth and being a senator, he knew what an oath was. Beck pointed out that the issue isn’t a gay issue, but a scumbag issue - somebody (whether homosexual or heterosexual) that goes looking for a quicky with anybody available, in a public place. But Craig pleaded guilty, promising that he was telling the truth and if he renigs, then he is a liar. That’s the problem for Republicans. They just have a bunch of liars (as do the Democrats) who are lying everyday to us about their private lives, their spending, their immigration policies, their Superhighway plans….maybe the should ALL resign.
23 conserve-a-tips // Sep 5, 2007 at 11:10 am
Here you go James! I want some eyelashes like that.
24 its-just-me // Sep 5, 2007 at 11:32 am
Jeepers, and that vacant expression….
25 Hawkeye // Sep 5, 2007 at 11:33 am
Very Funny Scott,
Since I never saw Brokeback Mountain, I had no idea what “I can’t quit you” was all about. I had to look it up…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388795/quotes
I figured there was something subtle going on there.
26 Hawkeye // Sep 5, 2007 at 11:45 am
Libby Gone #7,
You can read the official police report HERE.
It sure sounds to me like the policeman was lookin’ for somebody to bust. He makes a lot of assumptions about what constitutes “lewd behavior”. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying Craig isn’t guilty, but if the policeman had been propositioned a bit more openly before he flashed his badge, he’d have a better case.
27 onlineanalyst // Sep 5, 2007 at 11:50 am
Good song titles, all.
Larry Craig theme song: “Make the World Go Away”?
Then again, I thought of “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” (I want to hold you so much/ You’d be like heaven to touch”).
From what I understand, Craig had several months to consider his options before he pled guilty and that judges use a number of fail-safe questions to those who do so to assure that no coercion has occurred.
Trust nothing that Arlen Specter advises or supports.
28 Hawkeye // Sep 5, 2007 at 11:59 am
Maybe the voters of Idaho should apply for a refund?
29 RedPepper // Sep 5, 2007 at 12:10 pm
The new new new hot hookup on Capitol Hill - Arlen Specter and Larry Craig. Is it true romance, or just a summer fling? Stay tuned …
30 Just Ranting // Sep 5, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Conserve-a-Tip re: 23
“I want some eyelashes like that.”
Looks like she has black widow spider glued to her eyelids. Too funny!
They’re dressed pretty fancy to go frog giggin’ don’t cha think?
31 conserve-a-tips // Sep 5, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Just Ranting: Frog gigging? Is that what they call it out your way??
32 Just Ranting // Sep 5, 2007 at 12:45 pm
C-A-T, re: 31
Well, I thought they might start canoodlin’ but I think he was afraid those spiders she had on her eyes might lay eggs in her hair and make him go crazy. And seeinz’ they were playin’ by the swamp water I just naturally assumed things would lead to frog giggin’. Seems a might too muddy to do much of anything else.
(Mayberry mode off)
33 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 5, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Does this surprise you. Nah, I didn’t think so. Hillary shot him (she did didn’t she?)
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu was a wanted man again after he failed to show up for a court date Wednesday and a judge issued a new warrant for his arrest.
Hsu, whose criminal past has roiled the campaigns of top presidential candidates, was scheduled to ask a judge to cut in half the $2 million bail he posted last week when he turned himself in after spending 15 years on the lam from a felony theft conviction.
Instead, San Mateo Superior Court Judge Robert Foiles ordered Hsu’s bail forfeited to the county and issued a new arrest warrant. If Hsu is arrested again, he will be jailed without bail.
Hsu, a Hong Kong native, was also supposed to turn over his passport Wednesday. Hsu’s prominent Silicon Valley criminal defense attorney Jim Brosnahan said Hsu failed to give the passport to the legal team on Monday.
“Mr. Hsu is not here and we do not know where Mr. Hsu is,” Brosnahan said outside court. Brosnahan said that “there was some contact” with Hsu a few hours before the scheduled 9 a.m. court appearance, but he declined to say how and who talked to Hsu.
Edited from the Sacramento Bee
34 conserve-a-tips // Sep 5, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Ms Rightwing, Ink: I don’t think that Hillary shot him. I think she gave him a passport….”Pardon me boy? Is that the Beijing City Choo Choo……?”
35 EXT // Sep 5, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Craig could have avoided it all.
Simply by saying he was only stomping on a cockroach. Then reaching down to pick it up and flush it away.
Most frequent travellers would accept that in an instant. Well, the first part anyway…..
36 Effeminem // Sep 5, 2007 at 2:53 pm
must ask.. Who’s Hsu? And who’s Hsu’s bondsman? Whoever it is should sue Hsu, who’s dishonored the noble Democrats.
37 EXT // Sep 5, 2007 at 4:17 pm
If Hsu’s bail is forefeit does it go to Hillary or Obama?
38 Make It Go Away | Adam's Blog // Sep 5, 2007 at 11:20 pm
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