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It's National Unauthorized Coming Out Day for Closeted Gay Lawmakers
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyBad news for all you single ladies who have had your eye on recently retired Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID)...Apparently he's gay.And he's not the only one, according to a new documentary that debuts tonight in five cities including Washington. Outrage, directed by Kirby Dick (yes, it's his real name, Senator), points the finger at a chorus line of conservatives whose homophobic voting records mask a private life of mimosas on Miami Beach.Among those cited in the film:* Bush RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, public booster of the most openly homophobic administration in American history.* Former Rep. Ed ...
Gavin Newsom to Run For Governor Without the Bro Code Vote
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyAmericans are a forgiving people, by and large. You can break most of the Ten Commandments, all of the Seven Deadly Sins, even the First Rule of Fight Club. But you don't mess with the Bro Code. Examples of this are evident all around us. David Vitter mongers the DC Madam's roster, yet retains his Senate seat. Eliot Spitzer is on the comeback trail after he exploited a young girl who had been an abused teen runaway. Bill Clinton is a great example of this, owing much of his forgiveness, I believe, to Kenneth Starr's own violation of the Bro Code, to wit, "Bros don't tell other bro's wives ...
Larry Craig Guilty After All! Search for Real Stall-Tapper Ends
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyLarry Craig, the Republican Senator from Idaho who maintained his innocence even as his career went down the tubes (Ha! Fooled ya!), has accepted the guilty plea he tried to have voided. From Reuters: The Minnesota courts have denied the Idaho Republican's appeals asking that he be allowed to withdraw his disorderly conduct guilty plea, which was processed by mail much like a traffic ticket. Another appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court would have been fruitless, because the case did not raise significant or novel issues, Craig's attorney Thomas Kelly said.Didn't raise novel issues? What do ...
The Music Stops For the Singing Senators
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyThe U.S. Senate re-convened today, but the chamber didn't seem as-- dare we say?-- harmonious as in past sessions.That's because for the first time in several decades, the body did not include any of the Singing Senators, a barbershop quartet comprised of four Republican lawmakers-- who were also united by making total fools of themselves on the national stage.Let's meet the four erstwhile Capitol crooners, whose gifts for both music and public shame knew no equals: Name Range Embarassment John Ashcroft Baritone Lost re-election to a dead man. ...
McCain's Convention Nightmare
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAre you ready for some political football? The date? September 1. The place? St. Paul, Minnesota. The teams? John McCain versus everybody else. As The Washington Post reports today, anticipation is running high for the showdown between Republican conservatives and their presumptive party leader. At issue is the G.O.P. platform, which, at present, is a 100-page-long decree that mentions George W. Bush's name at every scintillating, right-wing turn of phrase:Virtually the entire platform will have to be rewritten to lessen the imprint of the president, who has the highest disapproval rating of ...
75,000 Dream in Portland
By David Knowles - Politics DailyOn the banks of Portland, Oregon's Willamette River this past Saturday, the largest crowd of this campaign season gathered to hear Barack Obama speak. According to Portland's Fire and Rescue chief, Duane Bray, a staggering 75,000 people packed Tom McCall Waterfront Park. Not a bad symbolic boost heading into Tuesday's Oregon primary. More symbols? As Frank Rich pointed out in his column this week, Obama, should he go on to become the party nominee, will deliver his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention exactly 45 years to the day that Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a ...
The 1st Annual Veepstakes Hypothetical Awards
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe Hill newspaper asked 97 Senators this question: "If you were asked, would you accept an offer to be the VP nominee?" This sounds like a pretty simple question. Vice POTUS is probably the best job you can get without having to do anything to earn it. But these Senators act like they've been posed some mystical Zen koan, along the lines of the job interview trump card, "What's your biggest weakness?" (I care too much) I'm not going to list all 97, but I encourage you to, and pick out your own favorites. Instead, I am going to hand out hypothetical trophies to a few of the most deserving ...
Politicians: How Much is TMI?
By Denise Williams - Politics DailyNewly inaugurated NY Governor David Paterson, who has already to admitted to affairs and cocaine use, held a press conference today and told the gathered, "I think that, more than any elected official on the planet and probably in outer space, I have discussed my personal situation over the last week" and that there would be no more press conferences about his private life. I'm not a New Yorker and certainly don't know the governor, but somehow I don't believe that this will not be the last we hear from Paterson regarding his personal life. Call me cynical... Well, New York Magazine has made ...
Spitzer Can't Touch Mark Foley
By Brandon Barker - Politics DailyWhen the dust settled from the Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont presidential primaries, the political beat faced a dreary seven-week period until the next contest. To bide their time, did veteran reporters pray for increased debate among the candidates, new and exciting endorsements, or maybe a string of inflammatory campaign ads? No. They prayed for this. They prayed for Gov. Eliot Spitzer and Emperors Club V.I.P.As The New York Times points out, political sex scandals are an old story. And Governor Spitzer's scandal--when compared to Gary Condit, Larry Craig and Mark Foley--is probably ...
Mrs. Spitzer Stands By Her Man
By David Knowles - Politics DailySometimes it's hard to be a woman, Giving all your love to just one man.You'll have bad timesAnd he'll have good timesDoing things that you don't understand...--"Stand by your Man" by Tammy Wynette At this point, it has become something of a cliché in our cultural imagery: A disgraced male public official at a news conference taking his lumps for a newly unearthed sexual indiscretion while his baffled yet supportive wife stands at his elbow, struggling to put a public face on the many emotions roiling beneath a calm exterior. Many viewers to our latest reality-television episode, starring ...
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