Hypocrisy For All

The Senator Craig doings has been a study in hypocrisy by almost all involved.

Having a family-values, anti-gay-rights Senator outed in an airport men’s room, is, on its own, pretty old hat. Just this year we’ve seen the true faces of such staunch defenders of the family as Louisiana Senator Vitter (patron of prostitutes); Florida Congressman Bob Allen (arrested last month after offering to perform certain acts on an undercover male police officer for $20) and Good Ol’ Newt Gingrich himself (relaxed during the arduous Clinton impeachment by committing adultery).

But let’s not end the hypocrisy there. As the N.Y. Times pointed out, Craig’s Republican colleagues are falling all over one another in their rush to denounce him. Yet they remained remarkably silent when Vitter was exposed. Same-sex no-no’s are not nearly as forgivable as same-party heterosexual failings.

But this has been a banner year for hypocrisy. Just about every member of the We-Have-To-Impeach-Clinton-For-Lying-No-It’s-Not-About-Sex crowd felt that poor Scooter Libby deserved a pardon.

The Democrats, whose smartest course of action in the Craig mess would be to keep their mouths shut amazed everyone by doing just that.

But here at Uncle Head-Quarters what stands out in the Craig fiasco are two, mostly overlooked, points.

We aren’t all that worked up over Craig committing a men’s room misdemeanor. However, if, as the Senator now says, he was innocent, then his guilty plea was an act of perjury – a felony.

And, if he is telling us that he pled guilty because he was confused about the law, that’s reason enough to demand his resignation. The last thing we need is people writing laws who are incapable of understanding them