No, he is not gay, please for the love of god do not call the Senator that plead guilty of asking for sex in a mens room gay. Sen. Larry Craig, a Republican of course wants you to know he is not gay… He just like men, a lot, but he is not gay because they do not kiss when they are humping. Here is a great story from Aus, the headline says it all, “I’m not gay, says toilet arrest Senator”

Republican hack, and known lover of the prostitutes, GOP Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana spent only 10 hours in Iraq, but has come back and said in the 10 hours he could tell the surge is working. Our troops are asked to spend no less than 15 months in Iraq, Vitter, 10 hours, only 1/1092 nd the time our troops are help there. Vitter said, “My bottom line conclusion is that the surge is working very, very well” and then he ran past his awaiting wife, and handed a hot blond $50 and hugged her. He then used the line, “Hey baby, do I get a discount if I am a senator?” and shuffled off.

I am not even sure why he is still in the chamber, he is almost as much an embarrassment as Bush himself is to the GOP. Maybe they keep him around because he knows the best places to score the infidelity!

Florida is trying to do an investigation on if Mark Foley, former Republicans child-pervert broke the law. I like the fact that the GOP will protect a man who broke the law, but not our troops.

Planet Out (via Yahoo News)

Florida’s top police agency said Wednesday its investigation into former U.S.Rep. Mark Foley’ lurid Internet communications with teenage boys has been hindered because neither Foley nor the House will let investigators examine his congressional computers.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says it hopes to conclude its investigation next week.

Foley, a Florida Republican, resigned from Congress on Sept. 29 after being confronted with the computer messages he sent to male teenage pages who had worked on Capitol Hill.

“We have requested to review federally owned computers that Mr. Foley used during his time as a representative, but the U.S. House of Representatives . . . cited case law restrictions that prohibited them from releasing those computers,” said Heather Smith, a spokeswoman for the agency.

Smith said that the House claims the computers are considered congressional work papers, and that only Foley can release them for review.

Ah, Nothing make me more excited to be a blogger than a self-hating queer that turns to the Republican Party for salvation. Glenn Murphy Jr, I assume son of proud father Glenn Murphy Sr, was in the recent elected president of the Young Republican National Federation (YRNF), has been accused of performing an unwanted sex act on another dude while he was asleep. On the now defunked website of the young Murphy you could find pics of him with great GOP “leaders” like, “President” Bush, fat load Denise Hastert, Uber-hack Tony Snow, and much more.

Watching the Watchers has more.

Murphy has since resigned from both his position as County party head and President of the YRNF, claiming in an e-mail that his company has been awarded a contract which stipulates that Murphy not hold any partisan political office. Details of the claim became public by virtue of a copy of the police report being posted on an Indiana political blog, and being given to a local reporter. Although police have not charged Murphy with a crime, they are investigating the report for possible criminal prosecution as criminal deviate conduct, an offense that a local newspaper reports could be a class B felony. This apparently is the second such charge against Murphy. The first was made in 1998 but resulted in no criminal charges. Murphy’s current lawyer has publicly responded, claiming that posting the police report online was unlawful, and that the sex act alleged by the complainant was consensual. If the complaint is true, Murphy is a criminal. Even if not true, Murphy appears to be yet another of the many GOP hypocrites who are and act gay while serving the anti-gay forces that prevail in the Republican party.

My congrats to the Senior Murphy, you have spawned a sex crazed hypocrite at best, and accused rapist at worst. The rest of America wants to exrend a hardy “Thank you,” you have once again shown that solid conservative values can not save you from being a gay…

Today Bush came out and said some phodo-sympathetic comments about the federally built, federally funded, bridge crashing into the Mississippi River. He then moved to chiding the Democrats while dead Americans are floating down stream, for not passing spending bills (he begs you to forget that the last Republican Congress did not pass any of them to leave a mess for the newly elected Democrats). He had the balls to lay into the Democrats for over spending (on the bills they have not passed (I am not sure how you do that)), meanwhile an American city is pulling dead people out of a river because of a huge funding cuts in maintaining our nations infrastructure.

There’s only one way to pay for all this new federal spending without running up the deficit, and that is to raise your taxes. A massive tax hike is the last thing the American people need. The plan I put forward would keep your taxes low and balance the budget within five years, and that is the right path for our country.

No you retard in chief, because of the neglect of this nations infrastructures over the last 20 years it is going to take huge amounts of cash to fix it, that means we are going to be forced to raise taxes. Or wait, I got a better idea, why don’t we stop this failed policy in Iraq and pave the streets in fucking gold!

I am going to start posting the same thing over and over that I am going to just make a form…

Today, _____________, Republican [ ] Senator [ ] Representatives of _______ , ____________________ had their house reaided by the FBI today.

[insert new story]

I will fill this out for today

Today, _Monday______, Republican [X] Senator [ ] Representatives of __AK___ , __Ted Stevens ________ had their house reaided by the FBI today.

From the AP

FBI agents executed a search warrant on Monday at the Girdwood home of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, an agency spokesman said.

The warrant was served with agents of the Internal Revenue Service, said Dave Heller, FBI assistant special agent in charge of the Alaska office.

Reached at 2:30 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time, Heller said the federal investigators had arrived at the home in Girdwood minutes before.

Heller said he could not comment on the nature of the investigation and referred inquiries to the Public Integrity Section of the Department of Justice.

An e-mail statement issued by Stevens through his Washington, D.C. spokesman said federal agents had alerted his attorneys that they wanted to search his home.

“I continue to believe this investigation should proceed to its conclusion without any appearance that I have attempted to influence its outcome,” he said. “I will continue my policy of not commenting on this investigation until it has concluded.”

He said the interests of justice would be best served if he commented after the investigation.

I wonder what he was thinking when he was banging a whore while his wife and kids were off somewhere else?

Let the games begin, the DC Maddams list has been allowed to be release to the public, the first on the list republican Senator David Vitter of LA…

From AP via Yahoo

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., apologized Monday night for “a very serious sin in my past” after his telephone number appeared among those associated with an escort service operated by the so-called “D.C. Madam.”

Vitter’s spokesman, Joel Digrado, confirmed the statement in an e-mail sent to The Associated Press.

“This was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible,” Vitter said in the statement. “Several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife in confession and marriage counseling. Out of respect for my family, I will keep my discussion of the matter there — with God and them. But I certainly offer my deep and sincere apologies to all I have disappointed and let down in any way.”

The statement containing Vitter’s apology said his telephone number was on old phone records of Pamela Martin and Associates before he ran for the Senate.

Deborah Jeane Palfrey was accused in federal court of racketeering by running a prostitution ring that netted more than $2 million over 13 years, beginning in 1993. She contends, however, that her escort service, Pamela Martin and Associates, was a legitimate business.

Fred Thompson has always said that he was a straight shooter, because he was the great republican that had the balls to ask a tough question in the Nixon investigation. He boasts that he was above partisanship, but this story may be just that, a story.From the Boston Globe

The day before Senate Watergate Committee minority counsel Fred Thompson made the inquiry that launched him into the national spotlight — asking an aide to President Nixon whether there was a White House taping system — he telephoned Nixon’s lawyer.

Thompson tipped off the White House that the committee knew about the taping system and would be making the information public. In his all-but-forgotten Watergate memoir, “At That Point in Time,” Thompson said he acted with “no authority” in divulging the committee’s knowledge of the tapes, which provided the evidence that led to Nixon’s resignation. It was one of many Thompson leaks to the Nixon team, according to a former investigator for Democrats on the committee, Scott Armstrong , who remains upset at Thompson’s actions.

“Thompson was a mole for the White House,” Armstrong said in an interview. “Fred was working hammer and tong to defeat the investigation of finding out what happened to authorize Watergate and find out what the role of the president was.”

Oh there is more, go read.

The right wing is working hard to mobilize the lowest form of human the US has to offer, the right wing hate-mongers, and Snopes.com has taken the time to debunk it all. The Email is from the “American Family Association” a group with an bizzar obsession with homosexuals (In fact on their website, the “News” on the front page has 4 of 10 stories about gays), it reads the following…

Be one of one million Americans willing to take a stand in defense of two of our most precious freedoms — freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Here’s why:

• A California lawsuit which is now headed to the U.S. Supreme Court would make the use of the words “natural family,” “marriage” and “union of a man and a woman” a “hate speech” crime in government workplaces. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has already ruled in favor of the plaintiffs.
• CNN and The Washington Post both reported that General Peter Pace, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, was fired because of his publicly expressed moral opposition to homosexual behavior.
• A bill now before Congress (H.R. 1592 / S. 1105) would criminalize negative comments concerning homosexuality, such as calling the practice of homosexuality a sin from the pulpit, a “hate crime” punishable by a hefty fine and time in prison. This dangerous legislation would take away our freedom of speech and our freedom of religion.

Well snopes.com has taken the time to show that every line of this hat-groups email is a lie. Honestly, what should we expect from a “Faith Bases” organization, other than lies. Frankly, Jesus would be disgusted with these people, they will all be in hell.

“I don’t believe my role is to replace the verdict of a jury with my own, unless there are new facts or evidence of which a jury was unaware, or evidence that the trial was somehow unfair.”

George W. Bush, writing in his autobiography, A Charge to Keep.

This is in responce to why he never stepped in and stopped the death of 157 people put to death then he was in charge of Texas. Now, a rich white boy who helped him cover up an act of treason, justice was somehow denied here. America was once a guiding light for all others to follow, now we are a banana republic at best.

“The Gavel” has a great breakdown on the House Budget Committee hearing today entitled “Foreign Holdings of US debt: Is Our Economy Vulnerable?”  I highly recommend going and taking a look at this, one of the amazing facts to come out in this hearing is that our national debt is almost exactly the same amount the Republicans gave rich corporations as well is the wealthiest .01% in tax cuts.  Our current national debt, according to experts at this hearing, is due directly to the Republicans paying off the wealthy, in turn guaranteeing healthy donations.

I like to personally thank the Republicans are once again looking out for themselves over Americans, looking out for themselves over the health of our nation, and guaranteeing that future generations are strapped with debt for their entire lives.  Thanks guys!

You may or may not know this but your elected officials represent people, because shockingly corporations cannot vote. Today the Republicans filibustered a plan put forth by the Democratic leadership to found and stimulate the growth of the alternative fuel industry. The Republicans showed, as if anyone ever doubted, that it is not Americas that is important to them, it is not the people that live in America that is important to them, no, it is Exxon. The same Exxon and made more money last year in any corporation has ever made in the history of the world, I kid you not in the entire history of man on earth no company has been more profit than Exxon. Thank God they have the Republicans looking out.

Now Republicans are telling you that they were stopping the crazy taxing that the Democrats wanted to do on the cash-strapped oil companies, but this is actually a flat out lie, and the Democrats were not raising taxes on the oil companies, but instead allowing some massive tax breaks granted to them when Republicans led Congress expire. So using Republican logic, if you have a coupon, and that coupon expires, the net is a tax increase to the person buying a can of corn.

So to wrap this post up, Republican senators who were elected to represent people use a procedural filibuster to make sure that some of the richest corporations in America do not have to pay taxes that they were supposed to pay, but because of their “generous” donations to reelection campaign’s, were given coupons not to pay. How dare those damn Democrats try to collect taxes from the richest corporations in the history of mankind.

Firedoglake as the covrage!

Judge Walton: He is not a flight risk or danger to the community, but I don’t see the issues raised as close, so I deny his request to be released pending appeal. I will allow him to self report, but unless I am overruled, he will have to report.

Judge Walton: I will rule on the obstruction charge sentence to 30 months, to perjury 24 months, to false statements 6 months, all to run concurrently.

Robbins: Ask for a stay the surrender pending filing motion.

Walton: Denied. Mr. Libby, you have right to appeal

What is been really a passing comment in the Main Stream Media is a big deal. The US Economy is not doing well at all. The US Government todau SLASHED it’s esimate of first quarter gtorth by over half, from 1.3 to a pathetic 0.6%.

From AP via Yahoo

Economic growth skidded to a near halt in the first quarter, with the worst showing in more than four years raising concerns about how long the country’s sluggish spell will last.

The Commerce Department reported Thursday that gross domestic product increased by just a 0.6 percent pace in the January-through-March period, much weaker than estimated a month ago. Government statisticians slashed by more than half their first estimate of a 1.3 percent growth rate for the quarter.

The main forces behind the downgrade: the bloated trade deficit and businesses cutting investment in supplies of the goods they hold in inventories.

“We got close, but the economy did not slip under the waves in the first quarter,” said Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors.

What largely prevented the economy from going under: consumers, who showed an even bigger appetite to spend.

For nearly a year, the economy has been enduring a stretch of subpar economic growth due mostly to a sharp housing slump. That in turn has made some businesses act more cautiously in their spending and investing.

The economy’s 0.6 percent growth rate in the opening quarter of this year marked a big loss of momentum from the 2.5 percent pace logged in the final quarter of last year.