We also want to know. GOP Senate leaders have turned on their colleague Larry Craig. But where is the outrage about the ethical scandals involving Senators Ted Stevens and David Vitter?
The Republican Party is in quite a rush to keelhaul Senator Larry Craig for his run-in with the vice squad in an airport men’s room. Disclosure of the senator’s guilty plea to disorderly conduct set off a frenzy to demand an investigation by the Senate’s somnolent Ethics Committee and to strip Mr. Craig of his committee seniority. Some of the senator’s peers simply demanded that he resign.
No similar leadership chorus for judgment has been heard about any number of other scandalous revelations on the party’s plate.
There’s the F.B.I.’s inquiry into whether Senator Ted Stevens swung a quid-pro-quo deal for a government contractor who eventually renovated his Alaska home. There’s also Senator David Vitter’s presence on the client list of a Washington brothel. Mr. Vitter, a social conservative, pleaded guilty to “sin” (heterosexual) and no leadership call ensued for a thorough in-house ethics inquiry. Certainly, no Republican called for the resignation of Mr. Vitter, who comes from Louisiana, which has a Democratic governor who would then replace him. Mr. Craig is from a safe state with a Republican governor.
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This question has been asked even by overseas media. Looks like Republicans don't have a problem with child molesters or those who buy prostitutes on with men on men. Now I saw the singing group Senator Craig was in with his fellow Republicans. I wonder is the group the same way as birds of a feather stick together. Vitter is still buying prostitutes and Fingers Foley is still stalking out young boys to molest. Stevens is a crook and the Senator from Ct. isn't even in the news as he plead guilty to his crimes. Who's next to come forward and show the Republican values we've come to know so well.
I hope Senator Craig sings like a bird as his so called buddies pushed him under the bus really fast not even giving him a chance to defend his actions.
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