“The reason the Republicans found Joe the Plumber was to find someone hanging around a toilet other than Larry Craig.”
– James Carville, quoted by Politico.
Tags: Craig James, James Carville, Larry Craig, Plumber, Quote of the Day, Reason, Republicans, Toilet
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Filed under: Bush Admin, Election '08, In The News, John McCain '08, Politics, Stuart O'Neill
Well, first he said that he’d resign, effective September 30. Then, he said he’d resign, CONDITIONAL on what the judge said about withdrawing his guilty plea. (And that he was completely innocent.)
THEN, he said, that while September 30 had passed, he’d wait for the judge’s ruling.
The judge did not allow him to withdraw his guilty [...]
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Filed under: In The News
I cleaned up the references and added the links for you. But I finished this letter to a friend of mine whom I’ve known ever since I was a kid — covering the World Fantasy Convention in 1978 (you do the math) — and it’s worth repeating as a blog posting. (The term “posting” [...]
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In light of the recent developments in the Larry Craig scandal, not-scandal, entrapment, embarrassment, “completely false allegations that I will fight and if so will NOT resign from the senate, even though a lot of my colleagues really want me to” thing, a report from Oregon seems in order.
We do, after all, abut Idaho to [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Just a few minutes ago, in an intensely telegraphed story, Idaho’s senior senator, who came to congress with Ronald Reagan in 1980, resigned. Larry Craig has bowed to the most intense pressure since Bob Packwood stepped down in 1996, and quit.
AP, New York Times (blog pre-coverage, post-coverage HERE), the Los [...]
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Filed under: Breaking News, Political News Shows, Republicans, Senate
Pamela and Todd have covered this below, but the statement that Larry Craig released this afternoon is such a shameless and transparent lie that it deserves special attention. (Please don’t tell the “Congressional Potato” about it.)
Good fiction writing gets you on the bestseller list. (Hopefully). Bad fiction writing, evidently, gets you into Congress.
Alberto, move over! [...]
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Filed under: Judicial, Republicans
Pamela has already mentioned the brouhaha over Senator Larry Craig, Republican of Idaho, and his “indiscretion”. Craig, who sponsored the Defense of Marriage Act and actively campaigns against gay marriage, “was arrested in June by an undercover police officer in a men’s bathroom at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, and pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in [...]
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