What is it with homophobic Republicans and men's bathrooms?
posted by
Wally
6:36 AM
Maybe they want to be like Superman?
Like Clark Kent slipping into a phone booth and donning red tights to secretly become Superman, Republican politicians have been slipping into men's rooms and secretly becoming pole-smoking perverts. Not that there's anything wrong with being a pole-smoker, or pervert. But when you make a career of vilifying and demonizing gays, and then you're found in the closet (or bathroom stall) with something other than your foot in your mouth, well.... It's not what you put into your mouth that's the problem. It's what has been coming out of your mouth all these years.
Just last month, we saw Florida Republican Bob Allen, who had "recently sponsored a bill to crack down on soliciting sex in public parks.", arrested for soliciting sex in a public park. Before that we had Mark Foley hitting on male pages. And of course who can forget Jeff Guckert - the gay male prostitute who managed somehow to slip into the White House press corp repeatedly - sitting a few feet from the President himself, using a false name and false credentials (makes you wonder who he was blowing to get that gig?)
This time it's Idaho Senator Larry Craig - you can guess which party - who was busted in June in a Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport men's room trying to solicit sexual favors from an undercover police officer. According to the incident report, Sgt. Dave Karsnia was working as a plainclothes officer on June 11 investigating civilian complaints regarding sexual activity in the men's public restroom in which Craig was arrested.
Karsnia entered the bathroom at noon that day and about 13 minutes after taking a seat in a stall, he stated he could see "an older white male with grey hair standing outside my stall."
"I could see Craig look through the crack in the door from his position. Craig would look down at his hands, 'fidget' with his fingers, and then look through the crack into my stall again. Craig would repeat this cycle for about two minutes," the report states.
Craig then entered the stall next to Karsnia's and placed his roller bag against the front of the stall door.
"At 1216 hours, Craig tapped his right foot. I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct. Craig tapped his toes several times and moves his foot closer to my foot. I moved my foot up and down slowly. While this was occurring, the male in the stall to my right was still present. I could hear several unknown persons in the restroom that appeared to use the restroom for its intended use. The presence of others did not seem to deter Craig as he moved his right foot so that it touched the side of my left foot which was within my stall area," the report states.
Craig then proceeded to swipe his hand under the stall divider several times, and Karsnia noted in his report that "I could ... see Craig had a gold ring on his ring finger as his hand was on my side of the stall divider." Craig called the incident a "misunderstanding. Sure Senator, of course it was a misunderstanding. That's why you plead guilty to the charge.
What makes the case funnier is when you look at Craig's voting record: Voted YES on constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. (Jun 2006)
Voted NO on adding sexual orientation to definition of hate crimes. (Jun 2002)
Voted NO on expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation. (Jun 2000)
Voted YES on prohibiting same-sex marriage. (Sep 1996)
Voted NO on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation. (Sep 1996) Well Larry, I guess you can't complain when you're fired from Congress for your sexual orientation then, can you?
Oh, and about that Clinton/Monica thing? Remember back on January 24, 1999, on Meet The Press, when you said: Well, I don't know where the Senate's going to be on that issue of an up or down vote on impeachment, but I will tell you that the Senate certainly can bring about a censure resolution and it's a slap on the wrist. It's a, "Bad boy, Bill Clinton. You're a naughty boy." The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy, a naughty boy.
I'm going to speak out for the citizens of my state, who in the majority think that Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy. The question issue now is simply this: Did he lie under oath? Did he perjure himself and did he obstruct justice? And that's where we're trying to go now in this truth-seeking process. You were talking about impeaching him for what? Being a naughty boy? If he was a "naughty boy" for what he did, what does that make you? You talk about "lying under oath and obstruction of justice" and yet you were vocally and vehemently outraged when the exact same charges were levelled against your guy Scooter Libby? Republicans wonder why they keep getting accused of hypocrisy?
I don't care if you're gay, or a pervert, or hiding in your wife's closet, or what you do in your spare time among consenting adults. But when you berate, degrade, and discriminate against others for the exact same thing you are guilty of doing, it makes you a hypocrite and a liar and unfit for public office. STFU, pack your shit (oh yeah, that's already been done, hasn't it?), and go home you flaming hypocrite.
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