Senator Craig throws in the towel and will resign on September 30th, presumably to be replaced by a less freaky freeper although the odds don't favor it.
Honestly though, what is this guy guilty of? An embarrassing misdemeanor and worst of all, getting caught. Until last week, the RNC was perfectly fine with the Craig and let him run amok in a giddy lame way for decades...but when he was exposed he had to go and go quickly for the good of the senatorial party, to satiate the GOP's book-worshippers and to reinforce the myth & majesty of sexual repression.
Evidently, the closet is a very very necessary and sacred thing over in those sacred precincts surrounding the great temple of US Conservatism. Remember the closet protects the "privacy" of the closetee at the cost of their fundamental dignity, but it also reinforces certain vital myths & fabrications of interested parties outside the closet.
So they got rid of Senator Craig...by threatening a Senate Ethics Investigation that would have undoubtedly exposed many details of his deeply closeted life to the public and being presumably repressed, Craig took the hint and resigned.
Score one for the power of the closet, even in the twenty-first century.
Meanwhile...
The Idaho Senator's lame alleged sexual misadventure though, still somehow rebounds to the discredit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or so Jeff Jacoby argues this morning.
Boy...bad enough that the Commonwealth enjoys a low popularity rating beyond the Berkshires but even among our own we are a proud lonely and much denounced state.
I think the state democratic party should trademark & copyright the phrase "Massachusetts Liberal", so that every AM Dial talk shout tyrant will be compelled to pay royalties every time they really wannna spew their hatred at the Commonwealth.
It is never gonna end, we may as well make some money off of it.
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