[SmithL]

The AssPress is positively giddy at the prospect of dragging Republicans through the muck.

[goldstategop]

Larry Craig put his personal welfare ahead of his party's and the country's. He's a roach and the best cure is the strong sunlight of heavy publicity.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[AppyPappy]

Not in this case. They have to drag homosexuals through the muck as well.

[smonk]

sometimes even politicians do something simply because it’s just the right thing to do.

[weegee]

Tap dancing around the issue.

[fweingart]

Republicans are about as brave as a scarecrow.

This whole episode of Craig tapping his foot in a men's toilet is beyond simpleminded.

I think of the cop who has nothing better to do than to sit enclosed in a toilet stall all the while smelling the odors that emanate from stalls whose occupants never heard of a courtesy flush. What kind of life or career is that?

He probably got really excited when Craig began tapping his foot and you'd think the cop would have seen the earphone and realized that the senator was merely keeping time with his IPod.

[Perchant]

So what happens? After an ethics inquiry do they vote on removing him? If that is the case, and Craig is truly found to be guilty, the Republicans will vote to remove him but the party of Barney Frank and Bill Clinton would be in the very difficult spot of passing judgment on a politician about sex.

[Sgt_Schultze]

The last public hearings were held 17 years ago, in the "Keating Five" case. The "Keating Five" case was a congressional scandal involving the widespread failure of savings and loans institutions.

And the last remaining tainted senator is still in office, unabashedly and repeatedly trying to close the barn door after the horses have left. The MSM has helped him to resuscitate his name and career that he is now running for president, again.

[jmaroneps37]

The low life who wrote this can’t imagine that the GOP would bring and press the ethics charges against one of its perverts because it is the RIGHT thing to do. In his/her ethically cloudy mind EVERYTHING is about political power and nothing is about doing what is right.

[kbennkc]

I wish the Keating 5 hearings would run again . Hasn’t everyone seen every MASH episode ? May be a problem with equal time , with Senator John pass a law before I steal again McCain .

[George W. Bush]

The Stupid Party shoots itself in the foot again.

Naturally, the Dims will want to help with some first aid.

No doubt, they'll revive McCain's old Keating Five scandal as a reminder of the Duke Cunningham scandal as well.

Then they'll deliberate over the selectiveness of the inquiry, trying to decide ever so fairly why Craig is being investigated but not Vitter with his phone sex whore thing.

The media will lap it up, tossing in some reminders of Mark Foley.

Mitch McConnell can't be very bright to have stumbled into this little fiasco. What it reveals is how incompetent the Senate really is. You don't start into something like this unless you know exactly how it will unfold at every step, much as a lawyer conducts a trial, never asking a question of a witness that he doesn't already know the answer to.

It's hard to believe that of all those GOP senators and their aides, no one apparently thought to ask "what will we do if he doesn't resign?". Idiots.

I think our senators are really incredibly stupid. Lame second-rate lawyers, too lazy to chase ambulances, including the ones on the Judiciary committee. To his rare credit, Arlen Spectre did try to hold them back on this.

[OKIEDOC]

It seems Republican leadership is just living up to low expectations.

About like Dingy Hairy the Repubs made a critical mistake throwing one of their own to the Democrats Dogs.

[montag813]

Why doesn’t Larry just announce he is a “gay American”. Oprah will be begging for him afterwards, and he can become a Democrat and be re-elected forever.