{"id":199128,"date":"2007-09-05T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/05\/larry-craig-does-not-appear-to-be-done-yet\/"},"modified":"2007-09-05T05:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T10:03:00","slug":"larry-craig-does-not-appear-to-be-done-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/05\/larry-craig-does-not-appear-to-be-done-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Craig Does Not Appear to Be Done Yet."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Larry Craig is <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">not<\/span> definitively out<sup>1<\/sup> as Idaho&#8217;s US Senator.<\/p>\n<p>It appears, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/09\/04\/AR2007090401416.html\">according to a voice mail left at the wrong number<\/a>, that his intent to resign is just that, intent, and not a promise.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s hired a high priced lawyer, and he will be fighting to overturn his guilty plea for disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n<p>While my initial reaction is, &#8220;pass the popcorn&#8221;, this can actually be rather significant.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as how this will going on at the same time that the Pentagon&#8217;s &#8220;war room&#8221; is ramping up it&#8217;s likely to suck<sup>2<\/sup> all the oxygen out of the media room, and so this media offensive is likely to get little notice, and hence little traction.<\/p>\n<p>The voice mail mentions that he has support of Arlen Spector, which rather surprizes me, as the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania always bent over backwards<sup>3<\/sup> to support the Republican agenda when push comes to shove<sup>4<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible that Spector had a polite statement of support that was misinterpreted, or possibly he&#8217;s trying to queer the deal in order to extract some sort of payback against the Republican Senate leadership by queering<sup>5<\/sup> their efforts on the Iraq war, but I am unaware of any specific bad blood between him and Mitch McConnell.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting seeing if the Republicans actually demand an ethics investigation to get to the bottom<sup>6<\/sup> of this.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><sup>1<\/sup>Pun not intended.<br \/><sup>2<\/sup>Really, I mean it, pun not intended.<br \/><sup>3<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;\" >Oh, for Pets&#8217;s sake!!!!<\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">  Pun not intended.<br \/><sup>4<\/sup>Oh&#8230;I just give up, I&#8217;m punning.<br \/><sup>5<\/sup>Well, that was liberating.<br \/><sup>6<\/sup>OK, I admit it.  I have a problem.  My name is Matthew Saroff, and I am a punster.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that Larry Craig is not definitively out1 as Idaho&#8217;s US Senator. It appears, according to a voice mail left at the wrong number, that his intent to resign is just that, intent, and not a promise. He&#8217;s hired a high priced lawyer, and he will be fighting to overturn his guilty plea for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1030,978,1019,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbtq","category-politics","category-schadenfreude","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}