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How about with the delicious proposal by Larry Craig's fans at the American Land Rights Association? The group's so upset at the prospect of losing the Idaho Republican's anti-environmental influence on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that it is proposing a boycott of the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Airport where the Senator got busted for cruising in a disorderly manner for anonymous sex.
Land Association leaders claim the airport and the local cops are guilty of "ambushing" their favorite senator -- using the old technique of placing attractive young cops in bathroom stalls frequented by senators who are "not gay (and) and never have been gay."
More power to the association. Senators who are as unreconstructed in their willingness to pave paradise as Larry Craig are not easy to come by, so special-interest groups can't have them getting ambushed by airport security schemes.
And who knows? Maybe the American Land Rights Association won't have to bid a fond farewell to the senator who never met a plot to despoil the countryside that he didn't adore.
Urged on by the delightfully off-message Republican senator from Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter, Craig is now scrambling to withdraw his guilty plea in the Minnesota case, beat the rap and reverse his resignation announcement.
The word from Craig's camp is that he is reconsidering, which of course he has every right to do. Resignation from the Senate has nothing to do with what one says or does not say. A senator must notify the proper legislative authorities of an intention to forfeit his or her seat, and the man from Idaho has not done that -- and, perhaps, will not do that.
Republican leaders in the Senate are, predictably, apoplectic. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is still busy blathering about how Craig made the "right decision" to quit -- after the Idaho senator was thrown under the bus by McConnell and other Republican bosses who can tolerate Louisiana Senator David Vitter's penchant for prostitutes but who draw the line when it comes to bathroom sex. It's as if McConnell believes that if he just says it enough -- or maybe if he clicks his red ruby slippers together enough -- Larry Craig will just disappear.
But that's not going to happen for so long as Specter is publicly urging Craig to "seek to withdraw the guilty plea."
How can Specter seriously entertain the notion that Craig might be innocent? Need it be recalled that the distinguished senator from Pennsylvania was, in a previous incarnation, the junior counsel for the Warren Commission who came up with the "single-bullet theory" to explain President John Kennedy's assassination.
In Arlen Specter's view, anything is possible -- even the impossible.
And in the case of Larry Craig, the impossible dream of a disgraced senator that he might yet redeem himself and reclaim his seat is turning into a political nightmare of epic proportions for congressional Republicans who cannot seem to keep their stories straight or their resignations permanent.
The story that was supposed to go away before the Senate was gaveled back into session this week has turned into a saga with no end in sight. Oregon Senator Gordon Smith is exactly right when he says of his party's Craig conundrum: "If this story doesn't get smaller, it will get bigger." Indeed, considering the broadcast news media's continuing fascination with all things Craigy, the Bush White House had better start worrying. Senator Craig's headline-grabbing absolution, or his next visit to the restroom, could come just in time to grab the fickle media's attention away from the administration's latest faked up report on how great things are going in Iraq.
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John Nichols' new book is THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT: The Founders' Cure for Royalism. Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson hails it as a "nervy, acerbic, passionately argued history-cum-polemic [that] combines a rich examination of the parliamentary roots and past use of the 'heroic medicine' that is impeachment with a call for Democratic leaders to 'reclaim and reuse the most vital tool handed to us by the founders for the defense of our most basic liberties.'"
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I shouldn't be surprised (by now) with TN's liberal (pun intended) "fascination with all things Craigy"! What does this one make, the 4th or even 5th blog piece on Craigy? HAPPY Prediction: there will be at least another 3~4 "all things Craigy" by TN's bevy of 2nd rate writers who couldn't get jobs at the Nat'l Enquirer!
Reminds me of the time PETER ROTHBERG lamented as to how mind-numbing & depressing it was to constantly write about the Iraq War! Guess NICHOLS is No Rothberg!
Posted by Happy at 09/06/2007 @ 12:33am
larry craig, environmentalist:
Voted NO on including oil & gas smokestacks in mercury regulations. (Sep 2005)
Voted YES on confirming Gale Norton as Secretary of Interior. (Jan 2001)
Voted YES on more funding for forest roads and fish habitat. (Sep 1999)
Voted YES on transportation demo projects. (Mar 1998)
Voted NO on reducing funds for road-building in National Forests. (Sep 1997)
Voted NO on continuing desert protection in California. (Oct 1994)
Voted YES on requiring EPA risk assessments. (May 1994)
.Rated 0% by the LCV (League of Conservation Voters), indicating anti-environment votes. (Dec 2003)
but wait there's more:
Voted YES on removing oil & gas exploration subsidies. (Jun 2007)
Voted YES on making oil-producing and exporting cartels illegal. (Jun 2007)
Voted NO on factoring global warming into federal project planning. (May 2007)
Voted NO on disallowing an oil leasing program in Alaska's ANWR. (Nov 2005)
Voted NO on $3.1B for emergency oil assistance for hurricane-hit areas. (Oct 2005)
Voted NO on reducing oil usage by 40% by 2025 (instead of 5%). (Jun 2005)
Voted NO on banning drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Mar 2005)
Voted YES on Bush Administration Energy Policy. (Jul 2003)
Voted NO on targeting 100,000 hydrogen-powered vehicles by 2010. (Jun 2003)
Voted NO on removing consideration of drilling ANWR from budget bill. (Mar 2003)
Voted YES on drilling ANWR on national security grounds. (Apr 2002)
Voted YES on terminating CAFE* standards within 15 months. (Mar 2002)
Voted YES on preserving budget for ANWR oil drilling. (Apr 2000)
Voted NO on ending discussion of CAFE fuel efficiency standards. (Sep 1999)
Voted YES on defunding renewable and solar energy. (Jun 1999)
Voted YES on approving a nuclear waste repository. (Apr 1997)
Voted YES on do not require ethanol in gasoline. (Aug 1994)
*Corporate Average Fuel Economy
this dude can't be gay. no gay guy i have ever met is such an asshole.
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/06/2007 @ 12:36am
sorry forgot the link:
http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Larry_Craig.htm#Environment
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/06/2007 @ 12:39am
First he pleads guilty to lewd conduct, then he says he didn't do it. Okay, whatever. Next time get a hotel room.
Posted by Zeddmen at 09/06/2007 @ 12:56am
Posted by RIO BRAVO 09/06/2007 @ 12:53am
rio,
forget about the sex. look at what his voting record has done to our planet.
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/06/2007 @ 12:59am
WAKE UP AMERICA!
Posted by RESE 09/06/2007 @ 01:02am
rese, it's late. they've all taken their ambien. why don't you wait till morning after the ritalin sets in?
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/06/2007 @ 01:27am
Posted by FROSTY ZOOM 09/06/2007 @ 12:36am
I support his voting record and see nothing he has "done" to our planet.
Posted by john maasch at 09/06/2007 @ 01:37am
Enough on Craig already...
Why don't we have an article on a real story...the funding of Hillarys campaign by a fugitive...
HEY FRANK!!!ANY THOUGHTS ON THE HONESTY OF HILLARY AND HER CORRUPT FREE CAMPAIGN?
If any of the repubs had a fund raiser like this guy..TN would HAve run an extra edition.....
So..Where is the story ?
Posted by john maasch at 09/06/2007 @ 01:41am
I think I'm with Craig on this one, just from a criminal justice standpoint. Looks like a harsh and dubious police practice, plus a plea under pressure. And with no lawyers? Is that still Craig's story?.
If someone's going around saying they're innocent, even after they've entered a guilty plea, then somewhere along the way there was a failure to communicate. The defendant's pretty much saying, "I didn't understand my plea." The Specter of Arlen, ever to be mistrusted, might only be saying, "Dude, you need a lawyer."
Posted by RLawrence at 09/06/2007 @ 02:12am
After careful consideration, Larry pleaded guilty to a lesser misdemeanor charge in the hope that it would just go away.
It didn't.
He should.
Posted by drhammer at 09/06/2007 @ 06:58am
QUESTION OF THE DAY:
How many inane articles about the latest Republican scandal can NICHOLS crank out in one week? Winner gets a free hunting trip with Dick Cheney.
Really, JOHN, you should be writing for the National Inquirer
Posted by CHIP THORNTON at 09/06/2007 @ 07:12am
Clearly, the reason this issue won't die is Larry Craig's own choice: He won't give up, regardless of the odds. All John Nichols has to do is write about it.
How quickly many libertarians forget the principle of individual responsibility!
Being a liberal and not a libertarian, I'm able to appreciate not only Craig's individual responsibility, but also his social circumstances, which is I why I do feel sorry for Craig as an individual. This man is fully worthy of pity. With his faith-based world view, he has denied the truth about himself and has literally believed himself into a corner.
But I feel no pity at all for the Republicans as a party. They not only had this coming; they brought it upon themselves.
Posted by JakobFabian at 09/06/2007 @ 07:44am
Dear "Frosty Zoom,"
I am grateful for your statistics, and I often enjoy your entertaining postings. Please do drop in down south as often as you can! You are always welcome. Pardon our mess.
Posted by JakobFabian at 09/06/2007 @ 07:57am
When will JOHN MAASCH stop just talking big and tender the contract to hire LARRY CRAIG to be the "Bathroom Monitor" at the Art "School" in his basement???
Enough on Craig already...
Posted by JOHN MAASCH 09/06/2007 @ 01:41am
No, not enough.
As with David "John" Shitter, Ted Haggard, Mark Foley, Bob Allen, William Bennett, Scooter Bippy, and other sanctimonous asswipers, IT IS NEVER ENOUGH.
If JOHN MAASCH is the devout supporter of LARRY CRAIG that he makes himself out to be ... and if JOHN MAASCH is the self-martyring fount of employment that he similarly imagines himself as being ... then JOHN MAASCH will hire LARRY CRAIG to be the bathroom monitor at the art "school" that he runs out iof his basement as a gesture of solidarity with the morally compassed and resolutely not gay ex-Senator.
JOHN MAASCH has the op' to take a stand. He has the chance to allow parents in Nebraska to demonstrate their robust support for LARRY CRAIG in the face of Demo and MSM scorn.
But who will be the big winners in this? Without doubt, it will be the kids themselves at the art "school". The kids can learn the tecnhiques of the "wide stance" on the tiolet from the acknowledged Michelin 3-star master. The kids can also learn the intricacies of "helpfully" picking up non-existent pieces of tiolet paper in the next stall -- a form of reaching out, really, to make new friends in order to butt fuck them in short order.
JOHN MAASCH, a LARRY CRAIG Republican, has the chance here to tap his foot provocatively and advance it into the next stall to stake his support for LARRY in the moment of need ... for the kid's sake.
Posted by John_Shaft at 09/06/2007 @ 08:13am
I support his voting record and see nothing he has "done" to our planet.
Posted by JOHN MAASCH 09/06/2007 @ 01:37am
bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk! bonk!
john your lucky i went to bed early last night.
1, 2... 1, 2, 3, 4, Ow!
Eddie: People moving out, people moving in. Why, because of the color of their skin.
Run, run, run but you sure can't hide. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
Vote for me and I'll set you free. Rap on, brother, rap on.
Dennis: Well, the only person talking about love thy brother is the...(preacher.)
And it seems nobody's interested in learning but the...(teacher.)
Segregation, determination, demonstration, integration, Aggravation, humiliation, obligation to our nation.
Ball of confusion. Oh yeah, that's what the world is today. Woo, hey, hey.
Paul:
The sale of pills are at an all time high.
Young folks walking round with their heads in the sky.
The cities ablaze in the summer time.
And oh, the beat goes on.
Dennis:
Evolution, revolution, gun control, sound of soul.
Shooting rockets to the moon, kids growing up too soon.
Politicians say more taxes will solve everything.
Melvin:
And the band played on.
So, round and around and around we go.
Where the world's headed, nobody knows.
[Instrumental]
Oh, great googalooga, can't you hear me talking to you.
Just a ball of confusion.
Oh yeah, that's what the world is today.
Woo, hey, hey.
Eddie:
Fear in the air, tension everywhere . Unemployment rising fast, the Beatles new record's a gas.
Dennis:
And the only safe place to live is on an Indian reservation.
Melvin:
And the band played on.
Eve of destruction, tax deduction, city inspectors, bill collectors,
Mod clothes in demand, population out of hand, suicide, too many bills,
Hippies moving to the hills. People all over the world are shouting, 'End the war.'
Melvin:
And the band played on.
[Instrumental]
Great googalooga, can't you hear me talking to you.
Sayin'... ball of confusion.
That's what the world is today, hey, hey.
Let me hear ya, let me hear ya, let me hear ya.
Sayin'... ball of confusion.
That's what the world is today, hey, hey.
Let me hear ya, let me hear ya, let me hear ya, let me hear ya, let me hear ya.
Sayin'... ball of confusion.
and the band played on
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/06/2007 @ 08:16am
"The Specter of Arlen"
Posted by RLAWRENCE 09/06/2007 @ 02:12am
i thought that was Dale Gribble.
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/06/2007 @ 08:18am
Posted by JAKOBFABIAN 09/06/2007 @ 07:57am
thanks, JF
i often visit y'all "up north"
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/06/2007 @ 08:20am
folks:
forget the sex.
if craig had voted the opposite on all the enviro. issues, i'd be the first to get him a divorce lawyer (be strong!, mrs. c.), a good shrink, and a pair of tickets to "cats". then i'd make sure he was ready to vote again the next day.
focus on the real scandal
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/06/2007 @ 08:24am
On the other thread, JOHN MAASCH endowed us with his useless thought experiment about road crews that predictably fell flat. He was making it up as he went along to assert, in his usual style and like a zombie, that private sector behavior is necessarily more efficient than the public sector, come what may where evidence is concerned.
Let's look toward the real world for a strong dose of reality.
In 1980, MAASCH's pant-inducing pinup Reagan ran for president. Reagan constantly repeated the line that uptight government regualtion enforced by stony bureaucrats was strangling the economy.
"Liberated" from the girdle of what had been careful and sober (i.e., classic conservative) regulation, the Reagan de-regged S&L industry went Chernoybl and required a massive public bailout by 1988. Private enterprise failed when taken out from under closer government supervision.
Hwo does this fit with JOHN MAASCH's bedtime story about govt being unable to competently regulate? And what does it say about JOHN MAASCH's beloved and idealized businessman/bucaneer who, when given the nod from evident lack of regulation, starts a looting frenzy, grabbing bennis by the fistfull for his own pockets at public expense?
To the present: JOHN MAASCH must explain just how it is that private criminality in Iraq contracting is a reflection on what has long been effective regulation when it is exercised. Why does JOHN MAASCH engage the logic that it is the cop's fault when the budget is cut and the nieghborhood is not policed, turning the finger of blame around as he does on behalf of the thief, the rapist, the murderer? MAASCH must explain, the situation DEMANDS it.
Can the double-think be explained? Or is JOHN too busy in the basement "school"?
Finally, if JOHN MAASCH's mouth was not writing checks that his ass cannot cash, he would right now be on his way to a failed state paradise -- say Iraq or Somalia -- where no fucntioning government meddles in business affairs.
Just what is keeping JOHN MAASCH from embracing what he constantly asserts to be worldy paradise?
Posted by John_Shaft at 09/06/2007 @ 08:38am
Ball of Confusion
Written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong
Barrett Strong (born 5 February 1941 in West Point, Mississippi) is an American singer and songwriter. Strong was among the first artists signed to Berry Gordy's Motown Records, and is the performer on the company's first hit, "Money (That's What I Want)" (#2 U.S. R&B in 1960, on the Tamla label). In the mid 1960s, Strong became a Motown staff lyricist, teaming with producer Norman Whitfield. Together, Strong and Whitfield wrote some of the most successful and critically acclaimed songs ever to be released by Motown, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by both Gladys Knight & the Pips and Marvin Gaye, "War" by Edwin Starr, "Smiling Faces Sometimes" by The Undisputed Truth, and the long line of "psychedelic soul" records by The Temptations, including "Cloud Nine", "I Can't Get Next to You", "Psychedelic Shack", "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)", and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone", among others. Strong received a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song for co-writing "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone".
Posted by johannesrolf at 09/06/2007 @ 08:43am
this Craig thing is pure gold for the dems. let's hope that knucklehead keeps the story and the scandal going for a good long time.
Posted by johannesrolf at 09/06/2007 @ 08:44am
Larry Craig is a pitiful and deluded character, closeted and driven to dark and unseemly places by a social dynamic that he himself helped to perpetuate. I harbor no resentment for him beyond a mild disgust at his use of power for hypocritical ends.
But the lose-lose position his party finds itself in is fascinating. Faced with exposing another seat to risk, (pun very much intended), they now have to figure out how to backtrack on their high-profile fake values.
This month's tearoom special is the Damage Control, a big, steaming bowl of irony, topped with a dollop of sweet schadenfreude.
Dig in!
Posted by drhammer at 09/06/2007 @ 08:49am
Not what Craig thinks is going to happen....a "Trent Lott" redemption of sorts, I guess, whereby "after it all dies down", he gets his Committee positions back and the GOP minority (if ever the majority again) lets him back "in the Club" and starts allowing him some earmarks, etc.
And of course that's not going to happen. He's just pissing the GOP leadership off and even if he stays in the Senate, he's going to lose his re-election bid next year (ID GOP will surely support a primary challenge).
Posted by Mask at 09/06/2007 @ 09:14am
Posted by JOHN_SHAFT 09/06/2007 @ 08:38am
Well...there you go again. ;)
Posted by canaar at 09/06/2007 @ 09:21am
Posted by JOHANNESROLF 09/06/2007 @ 08:43am
thanks
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/06/2007 @ 09:25am
Thanks Rese and Johann, as usual, for the interesting facts.
It occurs to me the "de-closeting" of Craig and other neo-cons may have a salubrious effect on our reeling "body politic" which perhaps may even go beyond the wished cleansing benefits of Cheney's desired, albeit current seemingly unlikely, impeachment.
Posted by lewwelge at 09/06/2007 @ 09:48am
thanks Lew.
Cheney will follow Rove and Rummy and resign. for reasons of health, of course. Condi too will not last to the end of this ignominious mis-administration.
Rese is of course a nutcase
Posted by johannesrolf at 09/06/2007 @ 10:41am
Posted by JOHN MAASCH 09/06/2007 @ 01:41am
You and Rio missed the part where she gave Hsu's money to charity, eh?
Kind of like what Chimpy did with money from the Log Cabin Republicans his first time around. You know those log cabin guys, right? Those homos and perverts peopling the republican party.
guess what guys, a senator saying he intends to resign after getting caught by law enforcement is NEWS.
so is a rep turning up dead. But that has barely made a blip. I wonder if Roberston will produce a video blaming that on Hillary.
This is news too
:By Edward Epstein Congressional Quarterly
Wednesday 05 September 2007
Another Washington staffer for Rep. John T. Doolittle, R-Calif., has been subpeonaed by a federal grand jury investigating dealings between the congressman, his wife and convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the House was informed Wednesday.
Posted by crabwalk at 09/06/2007 @ 10:46am
Posted by JOHN MAASCH 09/06/2007 @ 01:41am
hey, John! Any thoughts on Chimpy McFlightsuit seating a fugitive next to his wife at a SOTU speech?
Posted by crabwalk at 09/06/2007 @ 10:47am
Posted by JOHANNESROLF 09/06/2007 @ 08:44am
where ya been? Missed ya.
Posted by crabwalk at 09/06/2007 @ 10:49am
Whats going down on The Hill? These folks are under investigation or in jail.
Seems like a republican party, with a few dems thrown in for variety. Must be more of that "rule of law family values" we hear so much about.
1 Senators
1.1 Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.)
1.2 Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.)
1.3 Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)
2 Representatives
2.1 Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.)
2.2 Rep. Tom Feeney (R-Fla.)
2.3 Rep. Bob Filner (D-Calif.)
2.4 Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.)
2.5 Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.)
2.6 Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.)
2.7 Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.)
2.8 Rep. Gary Miller (R-Calif.)
2.9 Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.V.)
2.10 Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.)
2.11 Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.)
2.12 Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska)
3 Former members of Congress
3.1 Former Rep. Bob Beauprez (R-Colo.)
3.2 Former Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.)
3.3 Former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.)
3.4 Former Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas)
3.5 Former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.)
3.6 Former Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-Nev.)
3.7 Former Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.)
3.8 Former Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio)
3.9 Former Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.)
One file :Tom Feeney has been mentioned multiple times in court documents filed by the Justice Department as "Representative #3" in the criminal investigation of Mark Zachares, a former congressional aide to Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) and lobbyist who, in April 2007, pleaded guilty to accepting tens of thousands of dollars in gifts from lobbyist Jack Abramoff. In April 2007, the FBI asked Feeney for information about his dealings with Jack Abramoff as part of its ongoing investigation into the lobbyist convicted of defrauding clients. Feeney is one of three House members who accompanied Abramoff to Scotland on golfing trips (the others being convicted former Rep. Bob Ney and indicted former Rep. Tom DeLay). In January 2007, the House announced that Feeney had violated chamber rules by letting Abramoff pay for the trip. Feeney has stated that he is not a target of a probe and is "pleased to voluntarily cooperate" with the investigation.
RIO, what can you tell us about Rep Kolbe- r-Arizona? And, how are young Prince Cheneys two mommies doing lately?
Posted by crabwalk at 09/06/2007 @ 10:58am
Is Craig claiming he did it but didn't swallow, ala Bill Clinton?
Posted by mtspence05 at 09/06/2007 @ 11:07am
The Big Shaft is one strange dude..I don't care about Craig but most here are in absolute glee...enlightening for those on the conservative side to see the real side of the fringe here...and guys like the Big Shaft are definately fringe kook. Wow..
I just thought the leading lefy mag rag and home of the lefty loons might have at least ONE article on the fund raising scandal, since this site laments the corruption of money in politics..but I guess because it is in the Dem party and Hillary in particular, it is no story..and the problem only occurs when reoubs have fund raisers.
Is this the case because,
1. Is is accustomed to Clintons and money scandals,
2. There is no scandal..just a right wing conspiracy and what we really need to do is investigate why Craig was in that particular stall...is MSP a focal point of gay repubs?
Enquiring minds want to know..
But Chinese fund raisers who jump bail and leave a million bucks behind? Naw, nothing there to worry about.
The Mag Rag should be re named the Nations Hypocritics.
Pathetic...RUN,CINDY,RUN..for sure.
Posted by john maasch at 09/06/2007 @ 11:18am
john you like this:
Voted NO on including oil & gas smokestacks in mercury regulations. (Sep 2005)
----- all mercury-based toxins damage the central nervous system and other organs or organ systems such as the liver or gastrointestinal tract. craig loves your kids
Voted YES on confirming Gale Norton as Secretary of Interior. (Jan 2001)
-----ABCNews, September 29, 2000: "Gale Norton, nominated to head George W. Bush's Interior Department, has a pro-development resume when it comes to public lands."---yep, take your kids camping at a strip mine
Voted YES on more funding for forest roads and fish habitat. (Sep 1999)
Voted YES on transportation demo projects. (Mar 1998)
Voted NO on reducing funds for road-building in National Forests. (Sep 1997)
----gotta get those trees to the mill
Voted NO on continuing desert protection in California. (Oct 1994)
------desert, it's dead already
Voted YES on requiring EPA risk assessments. (May 1994)
.Rated 0% by the LCV (League of Conservation Voters), indicating anti-environment votes. (Dec 2003)
but wait there's more:
Voted YES on removing oil & gas exploration subsidies. (Jun 2007)
Voted YES on making oil-producing and exporting cartels illegal. (Jun 2007)
Voted NO on factoring global warming into federal project planning. (May 2007)
---global what
Voted NO on disallowing an oil leasing program in Alaska's ANWR. (Nov 2005)
----yep we can fill up 3 more hummers for a week
Voted NO on $3.1B for emergency oil assistance for hurricane-hit areas. (Oct 2005)
Voted NO on reducing oil usage by 40% by 2025 (instead of 5%). (Jun 2005)
------cool, we can get involved with MORE despots
Voted NO on banning drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Mar 2005)
Voted YES on Bush Administration Energy Policy. (Jul 2003)
------well, that sure has been productive
Voted NO on targeting 100,000 hydrogen-powered vehicles by 2010. (Jun 2003)
--------cars run on gas, period!!!
Voted NO on removing consideration of drilling ANWR from budget bill. (Mar 2003)
Voted YES on drilling ANWR on national security grounds. (Apr 2002)
------wow, the u.s. is now secure
Voted YES on terminating CAFE* standards within 15 months. (Mar 2002)
---guzzle, guzzle
Voted YES on preserving budget for ANWR oil drilling. (Apr 2000)
Voted NO on ending discussion of CAFE fuel efficiency standards. (Sep 1999)
Voted YES on defunding renewable and solar energy. (Jun 1999)
-------the sun, that'll never work
Voted YES on approving a nuclear waste repository. (Apr 1997)
-----i hear it's gonna be in nebraska
Voted YES on do not require ethanol in gasoline. (Aug 1994)
------idea's too corny
*Corporate Average Fuel Economy
this dude can't be gay. no gay guy i have ever met is such an asshole.
joh i'd have much better retorts but time to run to school and pick up my son for lunch.
I'LL BE BACK
Posted by frosty zoom at 09/06/2007 @ 11:34am
Posted by CRABWALK 09/06/2007 @ 10:49am | ignore this person
an all too brief vacation.
Posted by johannesrolf at 09/06/2007 @ 12:25pm
Posted by JOHN MAASCH 09/06/2007 @ 11:18am | ignore this person
don't be obtuse. politicians accept money from people. if one of those people has legal problems, they usually return the money. how the hell are they to know from the money?
Posted by johannesrolf at 09/06/2007 @ 12:28pm
What JOHN MAASCH means to say (JOHN MAASCH 09/06/2007 @ 11:18am) but for his Republicant programming and brain chip implant:
Shaft is the black private dick who's a sex machine to all the chicks.. And I am a LARRY CRAIG Brokeback Republican so most here are in absolute glee...enlightening for those on the conservative side to see the real side of our fringe that trolls our nation's bathroom stalls and propositions strangers from a "wide stance"...and guys like me are definately fringe kook. Wow..
Is this the case because,
1. There is no such thing as Clintons and money scandals, just bloated, pointless and endless republicant investigations and pieties?
Enquiring minds want to know..
The Minneapolis bathroom stall should be re named the LARRY CRAIG Memorial Bum Blast Love Hut.
RUN, LARRY, RUN..for sure. Idaho belongs to us ...
Posted by John_Shaft at 09/06/2007 @ 1:07pm
Enough on Craig already...
Posted by JOHN MAASCH 09/06/2007 @ 01:41am
About time to say it again and to rejoice with unconditional, "I'm getting the best BJ of my life, right now, from Scarlett Johansson"-style GLEE:
After lingering for several minutes by the door of another stall, conservaLoser Republicant LARRY CRAIG got into what he calls a "wide stance" in a public bathroom and tried to rub his foot againt that of the guy in the next stall! He claimed to be picking up invisible pices of tiolet paper from the bathroom floor of the same public bathroom as a pretext for REACHING HIS HAND INTO THE NEXT STALL WHERE THE TARGETTED YOUNG STUD WAS OSTENSIBLEY EITHER TAKING A DUMP OR JERKING OFF!!!
And then -- it gets even funnier!!! --- conservaLoser Republicant LARRY CRAIG gets up in public ("thanks for coming out"!!! This guy kills me) with his dumb zilch of a wife to bleat that he's not r-e-a-l-l-y g-a-y and he's going to battle on to keep his seat!!!
Love It! I just absa-fucking-lutely love it when another one of these Stepford rightwing assholes blows a few fuses and wires and behaves in the most cheap and tawdry way, with absolute zero dignity, zero morals, zero intellect!!!
I LOVE IT!!! RepbliMutants clearly need a series of seminars on sex and marriage ethics from esteemed married man and stud extraordinaire BILL CLINTON!
Now, maybe David "John" Shitter can make it a little easier for his aging but reluctant queen colleague who is less able to score in the men's room by introducing him to the concept of the "little black book".
Posted by John_Shaft at 09/06/2007 @ 2:25pm
So Hillary gave the tainted contribution to charity.
Big effin' deal.
She should have chased the dude down, lit his filthy lucre on fire, and stuffed it up his ass sideways. After all, she hardly needs it; she's gonna be elected the first shrill bitch president and steal it all from hard-working midwestern middlemen.
Posted by drhammer at 09/06/2007 @ 2:27pm
"...the LARRY CRAIG Memorial Bum Blast Love Hut."
Twisted like a pretzel, but saltier.
You need to visit YouTube and check out the "Little Britain" episodes with MP Norman Fry and his statements to the press. I'm not usually a big fan of English humor, but the topicality of these bits make them especially funny.
Posted by drhammer at 09/06/2007 @ 2:36pm
Cash registers ringing with contributuions to the Clintons? Fabulous news, always! Always!
Think of every dollar to the Clintons as chimes for effective and honest governance of the sort that reigned over American from 1993 to 2001 -- with an abrupt end in January 2001 when the filthy republicant sleaze seized office to impliment their program of klepto-"capitalism", global thuggery, unswervingly inept and corrupt governance, that finalized their America-despising procedural coup.
As for the Clinton legacy of good, honest government? Let's face the fact that in every town in America, a 900 foot statue of Bill should be erected. And he should be erect in the statue as well, with a foxy young woman at his feet blowing him as the 70% of real, non-RIO KORESH Americans wanted to honor their twice elected leader with carnal zeal! Fountains that erupt in wet and wild spasms should surround these monuments to Clintonian greatness and vision.
All Good Americans: Hail Good Governance Sex God Clinton!!!
Posted by John_Shaft at 09/06/2007 @ 2:42pm
Also, on HuffPo there's a dramatic reading of Craig's arrest report by Paul Hipp, who does it in a priceless, Raymond Chandler, film-noire narrative style.
It is too cool.
Posted by drhammer at 09/06/2007 @ 2:59pm