U.S. Sen. Larry Craig said this week he won't resign until "legal determinations" are made, CNN reported Wednesday.A friend sent me an e-mail yesterday commenting on how much I must be enjoying this scandal, and he's right. I really am enjoying it. In fact, I hope the judge throws out Craig's guilty plea. If that happens, I'd probably never stop laughing.
If his hearing Wednesday in Minnesota doesn't result in a fast and determinant action, that could mean Craig won't resign by his self-imposed deadline of this Sunday.
CNN further quotes a "political source involved in discussions about the case," who said "Craig has made it clear he wants to find a way to stay in office."
Craig said Wednesday morning in Washington that he didn't expect a ruling today, CNN reported, but he said he would have a statement later in the day.
You see, many years ago, the GOP made a decision. It decided that government was a bad thing, so it set out on a mission to destroy it (or, as Grover Norquist once said, to shrink it down to a size where it can be drown in a bathtub). And the consequence of such a strategy is that the GOP really has nothing to offer.
After all, if you truly want to help people in this country and you are in government, the bottom line is that it costs money to do that and it's pretty hard to find the necessary funds when you are cutting taxes for the very rich while trying to pay for an illegal war.
So what do you do? You push an agenda that doesn't cost very much. For example, you attack people who want to pull the plug on Terri Schiavo's body, and even have your Idiot President fly in during the middle of the night to sign "emergency" legislation to save poor Terri. Or you attack a liberal group for having the nerve to go after a general who got caught shilling for the Bush Regime. Or you propose an anti-flag burning amendment. Or you attack gay marriage specifically and gay people generally.
And in order to do those things, you have to make a deal with the devil. Indeed, the G.O.P. has made a deal with a whole shitload of devils, namely, the radical religious right as well as the religious right's Coulter-Limbaugh-Hannity-O'Reilly mouthpieces.
Laura Bush recently described Karl Rove as a "necessary evil." Well, the religious right and Limbaughs of the world that spread the religious right's message of hate were clearly necessary evils for the Republicans. And when you make a deal with devils such as these, eventually the time comes when you have to pay up.
Recent payments have come in the forms of the Foley Scandal and the Ted Haggard Scandal and the Larry Craig Scandal. But something tells me all these "gay Republican" scandals will merely be the first in a long line of payments that the GOP will have to make before November 2008.
UPDATE: And speaking of hate groups from the Extreme Christian Right, Focus on the Family is laying off 30 employees and reassigning 15 others:
Most of the layoffs are in the organization's Constituent Response Services department that answers mail and telephone requests.A "drop in projected revenue." I like the sound of that.
A drop in projected revenue played a part in the layoffs, and the growth of e-mail and Internet-based communications is behind the reassignments, said Gary Schneeberger, vice president of communications.
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