Larry Craig wants to continue ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’
By on Jul 23rd, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Larry Craig wants to continue ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’
Today, the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel is holding the first congressional hearings on the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy in 15 years. To mark the occasion, the conservative news outlet CNSNews.com asked some members of Congress if they still support the discriminatory program. Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID), who was busted last year for allegedly trying to pick up another male in an airport bathroom, said that he believes “we ought to sustain it“:
Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) told CNSNews.com, “Current policy has served us well. I think we ought to sustain it. I see no evidence that it should be repealed.”
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Larry Craig wants to continue ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’
He was also inquiring as to its effectiveness in airport mens rooms..........
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:56 pmOf course. After all, his own current policy of "don't ask, don't tell" has allowed him to sustain a marriage with a woman, and to convince himself that he is not gay and never has been gay -- not even for only a few minutes.
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:56 pmSen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) told CNSNews.com, “Current policy has served us well. I think we ought to sustain it. I see no evidence that it should be repealed.”
This is really surprising. I thought Larry had adopted the new "Don't Tap, Don't Gesture" (DTDG) policy.
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:56 pmTap, tap, tap.....LOL....Blessings
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:57 pmShorter Tappy McWideStance: The closet works for me.
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:58 pmOf course he does.
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:58 pmAnd, BTW, he is not gay, has never been, gay.
Yeah, lol; and he and Vitter want 'one man, one woman' legislation.
¶ AIO
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:59 pmLarry likes his sex repressed, angry, and "wrong". Being open about his urges takes all the fun out of it.
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:59 pmHey Darlyy, wanna come on down and defend your NoI'mNotGayIJustHaveAWideStance repuglycan ?? Hmm?
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:59 pmHe likes, "Tap, tap and Don't Tell"
"I not gay, nor have I ever been gay."
Going to be another good week on the Comedy Network with this one.
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:00 pmWell Larry, even though you have a certain amount expertise in this area maybe it would be wiser for you to just STFU.
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:00 pmCan the Republicans get any more bizarre? Self-loathing must be a real bit<h huh Larry?
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:01 pmDidn't Larry resign and then take it back? Ugh!
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:01 pmI can see no logical reason why gay folks cannot openly serve in the military. Their sexual orientation has NOTHING to do with their ability to do their jobs.
Larry Craig wants to continue 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Yes, but what about toe-tapping?
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:01 pmCraig: "Current policy has served us well. I think we ought to sustain it. I see no evidence that it should be repealed.
Undercover cop: GET ON THE GROUND! GET ON THE GROUND!! STOP TAPPPING MY FOOT AND GET ON THE GROUND!! GET ON THE GROUND!!
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:01 pmIt depends on what your definition of "gay" is. He has sex with other men but he's not happy about it. Hence the not gay thing.
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:02 pmHow long before our gay-expert troll(Daryll) pops in?
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:03 pmCraig: “Current policy has served us well. I think we ought to sustain it. I see no evidence that it should be repealed."
The dismissal of well-qualified service members notwithstanding.
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:03 pmSome estimates gauge our military personnel losses at 10,000.
We know many of the Arabic translators were dismissed for this.
Maybe Larry Craig is confused, thinking it was 'Don't ask, don't smell.
I mean, sex in a bathroom sure can't smell good...
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:04 pmShayne, that was priceless.
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:04 pmWho would you rather have watching out for you in the battlefield, any lesbian or Daryll?
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:04 pmAw shucks. Thanks ralph.
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:05 pmPerhaps Daryll is Larry Craig's pseudonym on this site...
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:06 pmShayne Says:
RUCerious Says:
Of course he does.
And, BTW, he is not gay, has never been, gay
It depends on what your definition of “gay” is. He has sex with other men but he’s not happy about it. Hence the not gay thing.
I'd really like him to come out and just say it.
"I'm Bi, I've been Bi for a long time, I like to go both ways, a real switch hitter!"
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:07 pmNotice that Zooey is absent from the discussion.
The poor woman lives in the state represented by this clown.
Notice I didn't say he represents her, I just know better than to do something dumb like that!
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:09 pmI think Daryl knows that he'd be lucky to have a gay soldier in the foxhole with him -- he just doesn't want one in the next toilet stall.
LOL
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:10 pmLet me add to reasons I don't respect Craig: Anyone with a lick of sense and Craig's recent press would realize that their face attached to a comment on DADT would make them look entirely ludicrous.
Apparently, he doesn't.
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:10 pmIs this some kind of hit on military personnel? If one assumes he is gay based on his admission of knowing all the rules of gay bathroom sex and admitting to performing said rituals to a police officer, then he appears to be trolling with military gays for sex. Is he trying to arrange appointments for his retirement?
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:11 pmRUCerious Says:
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Notice that Zooey is absent from the discussion.
The poor woman lives in the state represented by this clown.
Notice I didn’t say he represents her, I just know better than to do something dumb like that!
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Hey! Don't Ask, Don't Tell!!
Oh the shame....
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:14 pmI guess Larry Craig feels most comfortable with gays in the closet. That's probably where he likes them.
I would continue to support Don't Ask Don't Tell ONLY if heterosexuals were ALSO required to keep their sexual orientation and all details regarding their sex lives private. Having served myself, and having had to listen to endless stories of my shipmates' sexual exploits, I think such a measure would be a breath of fresh air for everyone.
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:15 pmWas that picture taken at the Airport or the Police Station?
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:16 pmFags against gays, huh? Kind of reminds me of a Berkeley-based satirical theatrical group in the 1970s called, "Ladies Against Women..."
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:17 pmAwww, now, Larry just wants a husky, strapping someone to jerk him around by his ...gas nozzle. ;o)
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:17 pmWas that picture taken at the Airport or the Police Station?
Probably taken at the Airport Police Station. I don't think they detained Craig in Minneapolis because he had a very important appointment to keep in a Ronnie RayGun Airport restroom -- a meeting with Lindsey Graham, I think it was.
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:19 pm.
"I am not gay. I have never been gay."
I just pled guilty to trolling for man sex in public restrooms...
THAT told us enough, Larry. We didn't even ask.
Why does Larry hate the gay troops?
... Answer: Because he hates himself.
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July 23rd, 2008 at 2:20 pmWhen asked about being a continual public embarassment to the GOP through his amazingly hypocritical statements, Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) responded to CNSNews.com,
A spokesman for Senator Obama (D-Ill.) was quoted as saying, "That's just FINE by us!"
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:22 pmLook guys, this juvenile "tap, tap" stuff has just about played out. It's not funny, or original, if five people immediately say the same thing, whenever a Craig thread is displayed.
How about dealing with the substance? I'd agree, don't ask don't tell has been effective, and we should expand it to include questions of religious and political afffiliation, as well. What would the Senator say about that?
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:23 pmSen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) told CNSNews.com, “Current policy has served us well. I think we ought to sustain it. I see no evidence that it should be repealed.”
And who, exactly, does he mean by "us"? The right-wing socially conservative zealots hell-bent on destroying America?
This is the man who not only recently said that we ought to tell foreigners to "quit jerking us around by the gas nozzle," but he also greeted the reporters who showed up at his mini-press conference to deny he was gay with, "Thank you for coming out today." He should have just added, "I won't be."
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:24 pm“Current policy has served us well. I think we ought to sustain it. I see no evidence that it should be repealed.”
None so blind as though who will not see.
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:25 pmOh, sorry for the 3 f's in affiliation. Sticky f key, for some reason ;)
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:26 pmHEY Z! So you WERE lurking!! Sorry to link you to this miserable pile of Senatorial excretia...
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:26 pmwow! it's been a half-hour and Daryll has yet to make an appearance.
Maybe his circle jerk gathering is in overtime.
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:27 pmbarfly, I thought you were channeling daffy duck!
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:27 pmHow widicuwous!
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:28 pmRUCerious Says:
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HEY Z! So you WERE lurking!! Sorry to link you to this miserable pile of Senatorial excretia…
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Oy...
See #5. :-D
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:29 pmCraig, Vitter, etc. suffer from what I refer to as "post-orgasmic morality" which is so very popular among the Born Agains and Wingnuts.
More of a "rupture" than a "rapture"
PEACE
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:32 pmDisagree with you there barfly. Any military person should be free to be open about who they are, that includes sexual orientation, political affiliation, religious beliefs (or lack thereof) etc etc and it should not affect them in any way career wise on and on.
Anyone who wants to serve should be allowed and they should not have to hide who they are to do so (with obvious exceptions like violent felons).
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:35 pm40+ coments and no Daryll. What's he doing? Shaking the devil or something like that?
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:40 pmSen. Larry Craig, you may "see no evidence that it [Don't Ask, Don't Tell] should be repealed,” but the real question, sir, is: Is there any evidence that DADT should have been enacted in the first place? And the answer to that is a resounding, NO!!
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:43 pmI can hear the Drill Sergeant now...
"Men, I don't care how narrow your stance is. Senator Larry 'Most Def Not Teh Gay' Craig says your service is not needed."
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:48 pmJust in:
Upon closing the sessions, Craig announced he will be proposing HR 6969: "The DO Ask And, Please, DO Tell Bill", applicable only to specified areas confined within the parameters of airports, shopping malls, sports stadiums and other new and exciting venues yet to be determined.
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:58 pmSeriously when will this clown learn to just shut up?
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:06 pmZ~ @#45 -Time for new reading glasses, and a memory pill...Damn...
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:28 pmThis man is from OZ. You would think he would keep his head down and his mouth shut. The key word is THINK. If his constituents could think, or demand at the very least some dignity and discretion in the people they elect, but I guess not. But if dignity, or discretion, or honesty were paramount, none of these legislators would be in office.
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:39 pmWhatta a creep!
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:13 pmDaryll Says:
I concur with Sen. Craig. Also, libs stop ensuating that he is a homosexual. There is no proof that he was soliciting a male prostitue. Tapping in the bathroom in common. I been known to tap of few tunes of Jesús loves me in the restroom on the feet of other men. Grow up and move on.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:15 pmDaryll; I'd just love to see you trying to spin your toe-tapping to the police when they bust you for it.
Daryll to cop; well, uh, you see officer, it was like this, I was toe-tapping to Jesus loves me when you busted me. I swear I was signalling my man-love to the guy in the next stall. You misunderstood, see?
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:16 pmDaryll when do you plan to introduce us to your Latin loverboy, Jesús?
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:23 pmand let us not forget that he is a cosponsor of Senator Roger Wicker's Marriage Protection Act, hypocrisy at its best.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:42 pmComfortably if not audaciously at the top.
http://www.light-to-dark.com/republican_totem.html
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:13 pmThe only thing more stupid and disgusting than Larry Craig are the people that voted for him.
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:47 pmI loved his recent senate speech about "jerking someone around by the gas nozzle."
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:50 pmOf course "Crazy Legs" Craig supports "Don't Ask, Don't Tell". He certainly doesn't want you to ask, and he sure as hell ain't gonna tell....
Cheers,
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:09 pm#55 Daryll:
I concur with Sen. Craig. Also, libs stop ensuating that he is a homosexual. There is no proof that he was soliciting a male prostitue. Tapping in the bathroom in common. I been known to tap of few tunes of Jesus loves me in the restroom. Grow up and move on.
We believe you. Really. I have no doubt you tap "Jesus loves me, why don't you?" when you're feeling down. And sometimes those nice people in the next stall feel the rapture and they do too....
Cheers,
P.S.: Had to "recommend" this post of Daryll's, folks. Do you need better proof that Daryll's a spoof?
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:21 pmLarry from "Poke-a-fella Idaho" Craig?
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:22 pm.
Darryll said:
Darryll honey, when a man pleads guilty to soliciting another man for sex in a public restroom, you can bet he wasnt taking a crap...
Darryll, "we" aren't insinuating that Craig is gay, he admitted it himself... HE TOLD. We NEVER ASKED!
Darryll, then riddle us this:
Why would a man plead guilty to a crime he never committed...?
Why would the man who plead guilty to the crime he never committed, offer that officer a bribe to quiet away the charges...?
Darryll, would you do the same, plead guilty to a crime you never committed... offer a strong armed bribe in exchange to make the confession go away?
Darryll, why defend what you, yourself, are incapable of doing?
Darryll, lastly... who said it was a prostitute Craig solicited, besides you? All evidence clearly shows us that it was a Vice Officer... You got something against Vice Officers that you need to call them prostitutes?
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July 24th, 2008 at 12:58 amLeave it to the GOP to make larry boy the lead toe tapper on this issue.
July 24th, 2008 at 3:33 amSen. Craig is trying to turn back time and take back his admission that he's a closeted gay man. Some things just can't be taken back, and this is one of them.
Unfortunately for Sen. Craig, even the members of the military are willing for DADT to be overturned and allow gay people to serve openly in the military.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1204/p03s01-usmi.html
"A Zogby survey of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan found that 73 percent reported being "personally comfortable in the presence of gays and lesbians," and only 37 percent want to keep the current policy."
When both the American public AND members of the military want a failed policy to be changed to extend equal rights to gay Americans, then the GOP is truly the party of regressive values.
July 24th, 2008 at 6:51 amHow about a 'Two taps, one taps' policy?
July 24th, 2008 at 7:32 am