if he got nailed blowing an al-Qaida guy in the airport restroom!

I just don't get these creepy old Republicans. Why troll public bathrooms and bird-dog pages? Jeff Gannon is available and that Mike Ford guy was really hot. Ok, so they'd have to shell out a few bucks...alright, Gannon is fat now and Ford can't keep his mouth shut, but DC is litterly crawling with male escorts. I think they're needs could be more demurly met going that route.

Larry was caught in Minneapolis. The Repukeliscum National Convention will be held in Minneapolis.

How many of the GOPerverts will make it OUT of the airport and downtown to the Convention?

Ever heard of the Twin Cities? That means there are two. The Repugs are holding their convention in St. Paul, not Minneapolis. You know, the place where the bridge fell down.

Does a record of decades of hypocrisy make a closeted homo unfit to serve in the Senate in a time of war?

You get to St Paul through the Minneapolis airport, right?

So, my question stands: Who chose that spot? Was it Larry Craig?

We...are...fam-uh-ly! All my senators and me...!

and an even bigger HYPOCRITE! Good god, I love seeing these douchebags get caught.

Tim, great catch.

The juxtaposition of Craig's peccadillos and Al-Qaeda is just too perfect. Roger Ailes really does think his audience is dumber than dirt...and he's probably not wrong.

Got a chuckle out of the Hannity & Colmes show last night. While the fallout and analysis of Gonzales resignation dominated all network and cable outlets, Sean Hannity began the show last night with a sense of urgency to "get right to our top story" - the Michael Vick guilty plea. They did tease a segment on Gonzales resignation, with a line of "Now that Alberto Gonzales has resigned, will that finally silence his critics?"

I didn't stick around to catch that segment, so I thought I'd try to pull it up on the H&C webpage this AM. Unfortunately, it's not there. They have plenty of room there for teacher sex scandals, however.

Guy in the next stall: "Sure!"

Larry Craig: "should I crawl under or will you open the door for me?"

Guy in the next stall: "It would be more exciting if you crawled under."

Larry Craig: "Oh man! I can't wait."

Guy in the next stall: "Mmmm. Me either!"

Larry Craig (peering up from under the partition): Chertoff! What are you doing here?

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain."

Leave Sen. Craig alone inside his cozy little closet, gang!

For the past couple of days I’ve been seeing this story pop up. Various Bush Admin officials talk about ‘increased chatter’ or ‘al-Qaeda’ is planning something. They are quick to stress that it’s too vague to increase the threat level. They don’t have anything ‘specific’ just vague warnings. But they just want everyone to know that ‘al-Qaeda’ is still out there.

Is it just me or is it tad convenient that a couple of weeks before Patraeus’s White House written report that will stress our success against ‘al-Qaeda in Iraq’ we’re all of a sudden getting all kinds of warnings about terror attacks against the US. And at the same time we’re getting commercials from a Republican backed group stressing that the enemy we’re fighting in Iraq is the same enemy that hit us on 9/11.

The PR campaign is in full swing.

I'd be more than happyy to leave him (them) alone in that cowardly, depressing little closet. BUT he (and so many other conservatives who have been caught tasting the forbidden fruit) actively work to harm the lives of gay people.

He's a creepy, hypocrite and deserves nothing but scorn.

The Larry Craig story is all about right-wing hypocrisy. Let's be clear about that. This guy has spent nearly as much time outlawing and otherwise demonizing stable same-sex relationships as he has hunting for fleeting same-sex encounters.

Much as it is nice to see Craig's hypocrisy exposed, it still seems wrong that a city like Minneapolis is expending its limited resources assigning plainclothes police to entrap sad sacks on the down-low.

The raw hypocrisy of the sanctimonious right wing in this country makes me want to puke on a nearly daily basis. I, too, want ALL these hypocrites to be "outed" as quickly and as loudly as possible.

My earlier comment wasn't serious -- these harmful creeps deserve no cover, no safe house, NO CLOSET, when they condemn others for doing EXACTLY what they themselves do!

I would LOVE to see him fumble a report over a Republican Senator being outed. You know, because his sexuality is the world's worst kept secret and all.....

Entrap?

I've seen that term used often in this case and it's misleading. 'Entrap' implies a person was lured or enticed into committing a crime they otherwise wouldn't have. That's not the case here. Craig initiated the contact.

Police were monitoring the restroom because of previous complaints. They weren't just there on a fishing expedition. I'm a gay man, and if I'm in a public stall I don't want other guys peering in or reaching under the partition. If someone reaches under my stall, their hand is getting stomped.

Years ago when there were few, if any, places for gay men to meet this might have been understandable behavior. Today, however, there are bars, hiking groups, bowling leagues, even gun clubs. Anonymous sex? There are any number of online hook-up options. Trolling public restrooms is indefensible.

Someone should go back a few years and check the less than honorable Senators flight records, how many times did he change planes and body fluids in Minny??? I am sure this was not his first venture into the Minneapolis Airport Men's Room... and most likely won't be his last either.

Does this make Larry Craig ab Idahomo?

At least Fox didn't have a headline on screen identifying him as "Larry Craig, Democrat" the way they did with Mark Foley. But only because they probably realized they couldn't get away with that one twice.