The Most Feared Man on the Hill? (Barf Alert)

Larry Craig wasn't "the first on my list," the gay blogger says. And the Idaho senator, who announced his resignation Saturday, "won't be the last."

Rogers, sitting on a club chair in his Northwest Washington apartment, is basking in the attention. For three years now, he's been a feared one-man machine, "outing," he says, nearly three dozen senior political and congressional staffers, White House aides and, most damagingly, Congress members on his blog. On Capitol Hill, a typical phone call from Rogers -- "Are you gay?" he'd ask -- is "a call from Satan himself," says a former high-ranking congressional staffer whose name is on the list.

Rogers reasons that there's justice behind his tactics -- "odious," "outrageous" and "over-the-line" as they might seem to his detractors.

In Rogers's mind, if you're against gay rights in your public life and you live a secret homosexual life, all bets are off.

In 2004, one of the first public officials he targeted was then-Virginia congressman Ed Schrock because of his voting record on such issues as gays in the military, same-sex marriage and gay adoption. In 2000, for instance, Schrock told the Virginian-Pilot: "You're in the showers with them, you're in the bunk room with them, you're in staterooms with them." Schrock decided not to run for reelection because of the rumors.

They are saving their ammunition, until just before the next election, as they did in the Mark Foley example. That hit was extraordinarily effective, because it laid a tarbrush on practically EVERY Republican candidate, and if they could simultaneously hit four or five all at once, it would be, in their minds, a devastating blow, reducing the Republicans to an ineffectual minority for all time.

Nowe this is just the landscape, that Republicans have had to deal with for years now, and it has become much more brutal and forbidding that it was in years past.

Democraticans do not challenge Republicans, especially conservative Republicans, on the basis of their practical solution to problems. Left on their own, Democraticans would NEVER solve a problem, they want them to remain around as an issue endlessly. Or if they DO legislate some kind of ‘solution’, that solution turns out to have so many unintended consequences, that endless amendments have to be tacked onto the original concept until its purpose is totally obscured.

Instead, the objective is to DESTROY the individuals who make innovative efforts to solve what has been an intractable problem for some time, because this solution will negatively affect some pet project the Democraticans are heavily invested with. But the destruction is never by a direct challenge to the problem of concern, it is directed at some other relatively unprotected facet of the target’s life. His (or her) children are badly behaved, there is an ambiguous quasi-criminal factor somewhere in the background, there have been indiscretions of some dubious vice like gambling or extramarital excursions, just about anything that may be put in a bad light.

‘Almost as pathetic as hanging out in the men’s room trolling for gays... Whom did that officer PO to get that job?’

I don’t know, but I wouldn’t want my kids seeing that stuff in a public restroom, so I don’t mind a sting to end the practice.

Here in Southern Ohio they’ve had to remove rest stops along the freeways due to this crap.

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