Gay rethug, guilty in a gay sex sting, will continue to gayify the Senate

Tappy McWideStance flipflops on his decision to leave Capitol Hill bathrooms safe for fellow hypocrites.

Ida-ho Sen. Larry Craig defiantly vowed to serve his term in office, any interested parties in the Congressional mensrooms, despite losing a court attempt to rescind his guilty plea in a men's room sex sting. When the charges first surfaced, Craig said he would resign by Sept. 30.

"I have seen that it is possible for me to work here effectively," Craig said cluelessly in a statement certain to disappoint and frighten fellow Republicans. "I will continue my effort to clear my name in the Senate Ethics Committee — something that is not possible if I am not serving in the Senate."

So how does that work? He's going to waste his time and the taxpayers' trying to wipe the so-called dark stain from the name "gay republican Larry 'gay bathroom sex!!' Craig, the gay republican hypocrite" rather than doing, like, the people's business? And who the fuck, besides him, cares? No matter what he does at this point he's pretty much screwed. And not in a good way either.

Facing untimely resignations, an unpopular war and a troubling 2008 election landscape, Senate Republicans didn't need another headache this week. But they got one anyway when Sen. Larry "Stalldiver" Craig vowed Thursday to serve out the last 15 months of his term, despite a court ruling that left intact his guilty plea in a gay sex sting operation.

The gay sex troller's decision gives his GOP colleagues two unpleasant choices. They can resume pressuring him to leave, and risk being seen as disloyal politicians who go harder on alleged homosexual misdeeds than on heterosexual wrongdoings. Or they can basically ignore him for months, and endure more TV comics' taunts about a conservative senator convicted in a case involving public bathroom stalls.

[H]is continued presence in the Senate obviously annoys Republicans facing tough campaigns in a year in which GOP scandals are emerging as a Democratic theme.

"Senator Craig gave us his word" that he would resign if he could not overturn the guilty plea, said Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., who chairs the GOP campaign committee overseeing next year's Senate elections. "I wish he would stick to his word. Instead of to me, when I'm obviously on the way to the john."

"It's embarrassing for the Senate, it's embarrassing for his party," Ensign said. Asked if Craig's staying would be a distraction for the party, Ensign said: "it may be a personal distraction for me."

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