Senator Caught Fooling Around in the Closet

Recently, Idaho Republican SENATOR Larry Craig was caught in a homosexual scandal which follows a recently string of similar scandal plaguing the Republican Party. According to authorities, in Craig’s spare time when he’s not bashing same sex marriage, gays in the military or gays right to adopt he enjoys wondering around public restrooms, contradicting by commitment, soliciting gay sexual favors from random creepy strangers, (anyone soliciting sex in a park bathroom is creepy in my book, especially in places where kids frequent).

I do not take pleasure in watching Senator Craig’s mistakes as they are advertised and scrutinized almost microscopically on a nightly basis by the national media. I do however find a quite comfort, that feeling you get when you know your right, in watching this event unfold and for several reasons. One, because this incident tears at the heart of one of the Republican Party’s crucial campaign strategies, and reveals it for what it is, a farce a manipulative ruse. For years the Republican Party has campaigned, and campaigned well on the notion that there’s was the party of strong family values, that their party abide by a strict code of moral conduct that the Democratic Party simply did not. Yet in the past 8 months we have seen a pedophile congressman from Florida, an adulterous whore loving Senator from Louisiana and now a creepy, gay Senator from Idaho who gets his jollies from frequenting park bathrooms. All staunch, anti-gay strong family value (supposedly) and in retrospect all extremely creepy Republicans.

Secondly on a more comprehensive level this event again speaks to the audacity that Republicans have when speaking to the American people and daring to opine that they hold a moral monopoly over all other types of political ideology. And more importantly that their so called moral monopoly is fueled and defined by their Christian faiths, again and again with each passing scandal it becomes more evident that it is not the party, nor the faith that delineates morality, it is rather than individual. And I feel sorry for the Republicans because the more they base their superiority on their faith and the more that their actions defined by that faith contradict their self proclaimed moral authority the more damage that occurs. It undermines their credibility; it annoys their base and makes cynics of independent voters while at the same time energizing the Democratic Party.

So to all moral Republicans I say this, come out of the closet and live the light.

Alberto back, back, back GONEEEE-Zales, Takes One for Team Bushy

What a bitter sweet feeling that washed over me this morning after finding out Attorney General, oops I mean former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had handed in his official letter of resignation to President Bush Friday evening. Bitter in the sense that his leaving the West Wing extinguished the ability of Capitol Hill Democrats to continue to humiliate, scold, and ridicule the ex-Bushy whenever and however they desired. This partisan practice I loved for obvious reasons; it made the Bush White House look like a 4th grade school kid, you know the one who sits in the back of the class not paying attention and then gets called on to answer a question, foolishly and comically fumbles with their words to manufacture any resemblance of a sound informed answer. Oh how I loved watching the hill Democrats ask question after question to the kid in the back of the room.

The resignation was also a sweet moment in that Alberto Gonzales… will no longer be the U.S. attorney general. It will also be amusing to watch the democratically controlled Senate confirm the next in line to fill the vacancy, a political show stopper sure to please the pundits and cynical disenfranchised. Questions on illegal wire tapping, Guantanamo Bay, professional conduct, moral obligations, and partisanship will all be on the table to attempt to effectively vet the next candidate. I’m sure the Senate will not want to see the Justice Department, the cornerstone of our just law democracy be held hostage again.

Rummy, Rove and Libby are gone, now Alberto is sent packing, the only thing left to do is wait for Cheney’s letter of resignation. January 20th, 2009 can’t come soon enough!

First Post

This is my first blog entry and I wanted to write in something that was completely ridiculous yet equally frustrating to me. Why do I think like this?

While driving to work today (at 6:30am) desperately trying to focus my mind on the busy day ahead, trying to discard the random thoughts of weekend freedom and why on earth I was up that early I began to slowly, against my better wishes ponder last nights re-run episode of Real World 47; Tehran, where 7 islamo-fascists get picked to live in a cave and find out what it’s like to stop being…oh wait… that’s not a show, I think the new group of drunken, horny, mildly retarded 20 something’s are living in Australia and there haven’t been that many seasons, have there? Some times it just feels that way.

Anyway I began to think why would slutty, fake chested drunk girl # 1 yell at buff, drunken southern guy # 1 for sucking face with limited vocab, drunk horny girl # 2 when clearly egomaniac, drunk southern guy # 2 was sucking face with drunk horny, crying girl # 3 who didn’t even know limited vocab, drunk horny girl # 2 liked buff, drunken southern guy # 1? Right? I mean come on it is just common courtesy to save the name calling and back stabbing until the reunion show.

As I pulled into the parking garage my thoughts quickly subsided, As I walked from the garage to building I passed by a women with one baby on her hip and two in a stroller, a homeless amputee vet resting on a street bench, various scattered pieces of trash, two gentlemen wearing suits, from my guess were worth more than my car and one extremely disgruntled senior citizen (yelling at the birds).

Why do I turn on the television and view the “real world” when all I have to do is go to work in the morning? I just can’t answer that, I guess I’ll tune into MTV next week to find out.