Glenden BrownA Sad, Tawdry and Inevitable End
Larry Craig has resigned - and been sent to the official politicians purgatory of the late night comic. I imagine the phrase “wide stance” will garner laughs for months. In reflecting on his career, on the rumors about his sexuality since he entered public life, it occurs to me that the end of his political careeer is sad, tawdry, and ultimately, inevitable.
I don’t think he’ll return to public life - and I would expect we’ll hear a story in the no so distance future about him having some sort of emotional and mental collapse. I expect that whatever mental health he had managed to attain has gone the way of dinosaurs. And despite his raging hypocrisy and his long track record of harmful legislation, it’s truly difficult not to feel some sympathy for him.
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:25 pm
One can only hope Larry has an epiphany and decides to become the poster boy leading the way for all good men to come out of the closet with pride in tact.
My God, the vast majority of Americans and indeed, the people on Earth could care less about the sexuality of others.
As a straight man I do not imagine I am alone in wanting everyone to be happy feeling good about themselves. Who would want to live in a world any other way?
I need to be able to trust my fellow man and one cannot trust either closeted gays or those who would prefer they stay in the closet.
Larry could help make that change. Just look at Barney Frank. Has he lost anyone’s respect? Is Barney less powerful? I do not think so. If anything, real men like Barney Frank ADD VALUE to our communities.
None of us are really free until the last man (and woman) come out.
September 3rd, 2007 at 4:57 pm
I was just on Huffpo, on Alec Baldwins’ blogspot, some guy there described what we have for leadership from republicans….He described bush as…..
HEE HAW HITLER!!
F***** BEAUTIFUL!!!
September 4th, 2007 at 1:46 am
Bill Maher usually comes up with an unusual but true statement about these types of stories, and he didn’t disappoint this week when he questioned why this officer was entrapping people trying to have sex as opposed to looking for terrorists. If you’re a cute man, (as I understand this cop was), and have to go into a public bathroom, maybe you should keep a VERY closed stance. This would prevent any problem, wouldn’t it?
According to the actual recordings of the event, (entrapment), maybe Craig had a point. He never actually said the words “wide stance.” How did this make it into the media. Was there a “leak” that was hostile to gay people perhaps?
In other words, Tommy Chong was obviously entrapped and sent to jail for a very long time. In other words, entrapment is legal in todays topsy-turvy Ashcroft-Gonales world. In other words, Ashcroft’s son was caught DEALING marijuana, and faced no prison time. In other words…
Fuck this!
September 4th, 2007 at 1:52 am
That being said…
Craig is a first class, blue ribbon, hypocrite who has damaged reality. May he, and all the other reality-challenged congressbastards burn in hell!
September 4th, 2007 at 1:55 am
Sorry Matheson, but I include you in my diatribe.
Not that it will ever matter. I’m not so sure more then 10 people read this blog, and some of them have fake names.
September 4th, 2007 at 6:57 am
Anonimity has its positive aspects, and while I have difficulty myself with that, I think that ‘outing’ people ranks right up there with extraordinary rendition. Having writ that, it is time to reveaal that Larry Craig, Illustrious Idaho pol, is really ‘V’. : )
September 4th, 2007 at 7:29 am
Craig outed himself. Have any of you been keeping track of how people are being entrapped online for pedophilia? No one is having any problem with that seemingly.
You cannot conduct yourself in such a manner in public, it is unlawful. Complaints were made, and the sting set up. You cannot do whatever you want in public.
September 4th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Cliff,
You might be surprised, but I agree. Although I do not agree that homosexuality is morally okay, I agree that most people couldn’t care less about others’ sexual preferences (except–and I hope you agree–when they flaunt it in public). I agree that everyone should feel good about themselves, and that it does no good to demean someone who chooses to be (or simply is) homosexual. Even though, from a religious perspective, I don’t think that homosexuality is the best sexual preference (or orientation), I think it is a fact of life which heterosexuals can and should learn to accept and respect, and that it is a much worse moral failing (that far too many people in the world exhibit) to treat with disdain those who prefer to be homosexual.
September 4th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Caveat:
I’m mostly speaking to glenn about the anonymity thing. Sometimes I wonder if he’s the type that would yell charge and then fall back into the fox hole while everybody else dies on the battlefield.
I would love it, if a lot more people would comment here whether they have a fake name or not. Some big issues are being discussed here that need a lot more input.
glenn:
I am disgusted with any unwanted public display of sex and really can’t believe these stories that have been everywhere about homosexuals at rest stops and bathrooms. I think it’s been trumped up to ridiculous levels to perpetuate the myth that gays are having sex with 10 partners a day. After all, Wilt Chamberlain never professed to being gay and his sex life was disgusting even in private.
I’m not so sure Craig himself didn’t perpetuate this scene to get Iran out of the news. It has certainly done that. Republicans are very, very generous monetarily to those in their party who sacrifice for the good of the party, and this is a biggie.
September 4th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Larry, I wasn’t joking about having been in a public restroom and hearing the “foot tapping”. Rest areas on the freeway are always provided with “glory holes” that have finally led to an indestructible material being used. I often wondered how the hell anyone bored a hole through some of the steel partitions.
What people use for names online is their own business, I have character names they represent historical attitudes, their bearings are not my own, since before you showed up onsite. If it were required I wouldn’t post here. Too much like fascism.
It’s the content that matters, not the person saying it. That said I have used my own name for quite a while now, and it is boring. I think I’ll return to an assumed name. There is nothing to this real name business, as all this online writing is really quite anonymous anyway. Don’t put much stock in it.
As for leading the charge, I have been at the protests, held a sign, big deal, it too is boring. If there were real action, and not just a bunch of ineffectual grand standing I’d be in. Real action is general strike, but things just aren’t bad enough for that, and may never be, so at that rate, it will just be a long slow slide, and I doubt I’ll even be here.
September 4th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Here is a gay guy that seems to have the stomach for the dirty job required. You want everyone out Cliff?, this is what it may take to get ‘er dun!!
/www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/AR2007090301396.html?nav=rss_email/components
September 4th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Better.
washingtonpost.com
September 4th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
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September 4th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Larry’s equivicating on the resignation. Maybe He’ll quit around Sept 30. Maybe not.
btw, I ran into a bus full of vets for peace at 9th and 9th. Larry, I’m sure you all would click. Thier bus has big seditious signage, would make you proud.
September 4th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Caveat:
I’m sure they get a lot of support and have a lot of fun. Hope I run into them when I have my sign with me. It’s time for the hippies, ravers, soldiers, cowboys, cowgirls, blacks, mormons ect… to join together and sing “Peace Train” with Yusuf Islam, (Cat Stevens), until the walls come tumbling down.