How can these Republicans say they support "family values" and yet behave like this? Should we trust our children around these "family values" Republicans? Does it seem that the more these Republicans talk about "family values" that the more they stray from them?
>> President Bush's speech about the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez was funny. The speech writer had the word "mud" on the next page and the long pause was incredible.....
*** More on Republican Sen. Larry Craig from the Idaho Statesman:
U.S. Sen. Larry Craig was forced into the Senate minority by voters, defeated on immigration by colleagues and put on probation for his conduct in an airport restroom. Now analysts predict he'll skip running for a fourth term in 2008.
The 62-year-old Republican was arrested June 11 by a plainclothes officer investigating complaints of lewd conduct in a men's restroom at the Minneapolis airport. On Aug. 8, Craig pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct, which includes "offensive, obscene, abusive, boisterous or noisy conduct."
Craig said Monday he shouldn't have pleaded guilty; others say he shouldn't have waited to react until the incident surfaced Monday in the Washington, D.C.-based newspaper Roll Call......
Here is more from The Fix in The Washington Post:
The allegations swirling around Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) have the potential to endanger what should be a safe seat and further complicates Republicans' attempts to limit their losses in 2008.
Craig was regularly mentioned as a retirement possibility before this story came to light (it was broken by Fix alma mater Roll Call). This story seems likely to up the ante on retirement although Democrats cautioned Monday that Craig is notoriously stubborn and might just try and see this thing through....
...No matter what happens with Craig, he has made this race a headache for Republicans. Whether it's a migraine or not depends to be seen.
Although, Idaho appears to be a solid red Republican state, strange things happen in politics.
