I'd say Craig got stung pretty good. The family, the job, the national news.....
Craig is guilty by his own admission. I don't get Levin on this one.
If he had a “D” after his name...Levin wouldn’t have wasted his time writing a column.
This bears repeating...
"There is indeed a culture of corruption, and it extends well beyond any single politician. It swirls around big government. It always has and it always will. It has become institutionalized in many ways. And that culture of corruption celebrates clever word games used by unelected judges to exercise power they don’t have as they rewrite the Constitution; it demeans people of faith who speak out against the culture of corruption and for — dare I say — family values; it undermines and seeks to demoralize Americans in uniform as they fight a horrible enemy on the battlefield; it demonizes entrepreneurs and successful enterprises; it uses race, age, religion, gender, and whatever works to balkanize Americans; and so on. This is the real culture of corruption. Let’s call it what it is — modern liberalism. And its impact on our society is far worse than the disorderly-conduct misdemeanor to which Larry Craig pled guilty and for which he has now resigned.
I'd say Craig got stung pretty good. The family, the job, the national news..... Craig is guilty by his own admission. I don't get Levin on this one.
The sting that was lacking was the follow through with any meaningful prosecution. What's implied by Craig's plea is that all the other men identified in the operation also likely plead out and figuratively walked back out of the restroom with misdemeanor records. A misdemeanor, which is what a 20 year old gets for having an open container at a college football tailgate party.
Yes, for Larry Craig, a quite stinging record, but for the other 23 (a made up number) men who also found themselves toe-tapping next to a cop, they've all walked back onto the streets and into other airport men's rooms with quite toothless records. What was the point of the sting operation if those caught by it all plead out?