Senator Blocks 850 Air Force Promotions

The New York Times ^ | 06/09/03 | ERIC SCHMITT

[hresources]

Here it is! craig.senate.gov/welform.html

[JohnGalt]

New to following politics aren't you?
This stuff goes on everyday but you don't cut the nose to spite the face.

[W04Man]

Right, someone had better dig the truth out.

http://W-04.com

[Radix]

Sirs,

Thank you for your service.

[Labyrinthos]

New to following politics aren't you?

Not exactly. I spent 13 years working for a blowhard Republican politician in the New York State Assembly (ten years) and Senate (three years). I know exactly what goes on in politics and most of what goes on just plain sucks.

[JohnGalt]

Look at some of the posts; they are calling him a Bastard.

Larry Craig has been as much a friend to freedom in the Senate as anyone and yet look at the awful things people are saying after an article in the NY Times.

[Digger]

Larry Craig is one of the few solid conservatives in the Senate and you want to dump him over a silly local issue?

Yea, let's just move on - since it's a pubbie. This is your "Two-Party Cartel". Any action justifies the end result. Too bad he didn't hold it up for a larger tax cut or closing the borders, etc. Then we might, just might call him a good conservative.

[plain talk]

I agree with you. What Craig is doing is wrong and just because he's a Republican we shouldn't defend it. However, others are overreacting to this by suggesting the locals should throw him out over this. All politicians are sinful flawed human beings. Its a matter of electing the least flawed ones and a matter of comparative choices. Some posting here would probably be OK with a liberal getting his seat. (uh uh - it would serve him right!) You know, the cut-off-their-noses-to-spite-their-faces crowd.

[kms61]

When Craig screws men and women who put their lives on the line for this country, he's no friend of freedom.

And it's not just the NYT. The story has now been confirmed by multiple sources, including the AP and a Boise TV station.

[Radix]

Try this link for e-mailing Sen.Craig.

http://craig.senate.gov/webform.html

[zoyd]

All politicians are sinful flawed human beings.

So we should just accept the lowest common denominator, and not expect anything more? There's a real committment to principle.

[Labyrinthos]

Larry Craig is acting just like that "bastard" Sen. KKK Byrd. He really needs to grow up and subordinate his own parochial wants to the best interests of the men and women who serve in the armed forces.

[kms61]

Straw Man argument. It's Idaho. There won't be any liberals getting elected to that seat.

[jpl]

Before reading this, I had no idea that a U.S. Senator could unilaterally put a hold on a military promotion. Hard to believe this would happen over four cargo planes though.

[JohnGalt]

I never mentioned anything about giving a rat's ass about the GOP. What I said was: he's one of the few friends of liberty in the Senate.

Anyone want to dispute that one?

[Temple Owl]

Thank you.

[jackbill]

Craig just made himself the poster boy for the "stupid" party.

You don't have to have an IQ over 30 to know that this kind of attitude is going to backfire - Big Time.

[plain talk]

The principles I stated are still the same. It's the lack of proportion when these situations pop up that I'm referring to.

[zip]

and you want to dump him over a silly local issue?

Sorry, but this isn't a "silly local issue". This is more like a psychotic break. Totally inappropriate behavior.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

What I said was: he's one of the few friends of liberty in the Senate.

He ain't now, if what he's doing is true.