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Sept. 7, 2007 I have watched with much amusement, the Democrats, both legislators and pundits in the mainstream media, trip all over themselves trying to come up with a coherent position on the Senator Craig situation. For those of you who've spent the last few weeks in a cave somewhere, Senator Craig, back in June, was arrested in a men's restroom in the Minneapolis airport. So far as I can tell from all reports and from listening to the tape of his interview with the arresting officer, he didn't do anything criminal, so I'm a bit at a loss to understand why he was arrested in the first place. He was accused of tapping his foot, showing his hand under the stall wall and touching the foot of the officer who was "staked out" in the adjoining stall with his foot. Oh yes, he was also accused of looking at the officer through the crack in the stall door and putting his bags down on the floor in the stall so as to block the door. Just what part of those acts are criminal and warrant arrest? Minneapolis must have some VERY peculiar laws if what he supposedly did is somehow criminal. Supposedly, all those acts are considered some sort of "code" by which gay men signal each other that they are ready for anonymous gay sex in a public place. Astonishing! After decades of defining deviancy down, the liberals in the media, particularly Chris Matthews, referred to Senator Craig as "deviant." After decades of touting themselves as the champions of "gay rights," Senator Craig was derided for being as they put it, "a closeted gay man." They can't have it both ways. Either he IS gay (or bisexual) and one of their "protected constituencies," or he's not. If he's not...and there's ample evidence that he isn't...then why use the "gay" accusation as a pejorative term when applied to him? Senator Craig voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which, to Democrats and gay activists, makes him a "homophobe." How confusing is that? First, he's a deviant gay man and then he's a homophobe. What? Switching tactics, liberals started calling him a hypocrit because he voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. I'm really unsure what logic they're using here. First, he's a closeted gay man, then a homophobe and now a hyprocrit...presumeably because he voted for DMA while being a closed gay man and a homophobe. The assumption seems to be that if one is really gay then it's hypocritical to oppose issues that some gay activists consider to be "gay issues." That's the same thing as saying that if you take an occasional drink, you can't be opposed to drunk driving or you're being a hypocrit. Voting for the DMA seems to be the guiding event by which the left determines whether or not one is a homophobe. If that's the case, we have a whole lot of homophobes, including many Democrats, in Congress. I have no idea whether or not Senator Craig is gay. Frankly, I don't care one way or the other. But the Democrats behavior throughout this debacle has been most entertaining and more than a little amusing. There were times during the last week or so when I felt like makng myself a bowl of popcorn and watching all the fun as if it were a re-run of The Wizard of Oz. Senator Craig's behavior in that men's room seems to have been a bit bizarre, if not exactly criminal, but each action has as easy an innocent explanation as the one the mainstream media was touting. All that said, Senator Craig's decision to resign (which seems to be back on again) is probably the right choice. But even MORE bizarrely, now the Democrats have changed tactics for the third time and are castigating Congressional Republicans for encouraging him to do so. Frankly, I find it offensive that a Party that supported (and continued to lionize) such "deviants" as Senator Kennedy and Congressmen Barney Franks, Suggs, Cynthia McKinney and Jefferson of Louisiana would presume to lecture the GOP about how it ought to treat Senators Craig and Vitters. As someone wiser than I recently put it, "The GOP gets rid of its members who misbehave. Democrats re-elect theirs and give them plush committee assignments." ------------ About the author: David A. Jared is a news junkie, semi-retired and an avid golfer who's been writing his first book, "4000 years of chopsticks" for the last 20 years. Email: jaredland@sbcglobal.net ------------- All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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