It’s good to know that the Idaho Republican Party is comfortable enough in their own dominance that they don’t have to worry about the optics of hiring former U.S. Senator Larry Craig to be the financial chair of its executive committee. Craig is not well-known for anything he accomplished while in Congress because he was a totally ineffective backbencher who had no charisma and no ability to help his party in any way beyond his lockstep allegiance to the conservative cause.
What Craig is famous for is having sex with strangers in a Minneapolis airport men’s room. He also claimed to use the widest shitting stance in the Northern Hemisphere, which was somehow supposed to be a defense against charges of soliciting stall-sex during his flight layovers.
And, of course, he then inappropriately used his own campaign funds to wage a defense that really amounted to little more than a failed “don’t you know who I am?” gambit.
The FEC made him pony up almost a quarter million bucks to atone for that bullshit.
But that doesn’t mean that he’s not the exact right man for Idaho’s party of family values when it comes to raising oodles of cash to beat those menacing Democrats who are always threatening to break 18% of the vote in potato-statewide elections. Surely, none of the money Craig raises for the party will go to break any more FEC laws.
Because, ETHICS!!!
On this day that the summary of the Senate report on torture is scheduled to be released, it’s fitting to recall when ID gave a damn about this country and sent a good and prescient man to the US Senate.
Alas the state went to the dark side in 1980 and has yet to return from it. CO 2014 is a bit of an echo by tossing its Senator that supported sunlight on government secrets hiding criminality and strong environmental policies.
Jeebus, if this is a for-pay position that’s pretty small potatoes for the Wingnut Welfare system. Is this it for Craig? If Senator Wide Stance can’t cash in for more than this in our corrupt system, he’s really a disgrace to the Repub uniform! He surely expected better for all his trained-seal clapping and barking over the years…
But if Wide Stance is reduced to shaking down celebrity plutocrats for some small change to waste on already committed American Fascist party state, I guess that’s some consolation for democracy. You were a good little doggie, Larry, here’s your Liv-a-snap!
I don’t understand why the Democrats don’t expose all the hypocrisy exhibited by Republican politicians. It seems that the Democrats ceded scandalization to the Republicans after the downfall of Richard Nixon. Democrats did make some efforts during Reagan’s presidency, but overall these attempts were ineffective. Taking the high ground is not a winning strategy in today’s world. In the meantime, Republican strategists fabricate Democratic scandals with the assistance of a complicit media.