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Larry Craig dropping appeals in sex sting, now with bonus video!

By GottaLaff

Just a quickie (no pun): MSNBC is reporting that Larry "I Love My Wife" Craig is dropping his appeal, mainly because the Supremes would have nothing to do with him (nor would anyone else).

Yes, Tappy McWideStance has finally called it quits. No happy endings (no pun) for him, but one more chance for a last, hard (no pun) look at one of my earlier video efforts, an attempt to capture the mood-o'-the-moment. Enjoy a peek back in time at Larry and all his shortcomings (no pun).

Senator Craig restroom tanking as tourist destination

Worth mentioning if only for the headline. Really, did they think it'd end up as popular as Disney World?

BOISE, Idaho— The men's room at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport where Republican Sen. Larry Craig was arrested in a sex sting is losing it appeal as a tourist stop, an official said.

"We're getting there," said Patrick Hogan, director of public affairs for the Metropolitan Airports Commission. "I think we'll all be glad when there's no special interest in that restroom."

Craig was accused of soliciting sex in the bathroom in June 2007 and pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in August 2007.

One person had offered to buy the restroom stall for $5,000, Hogan said, but airport officials "don't sell fixtures for novelty purposes."

As my mom said, "Always take the cash."

Court to rule today on Larry Craig bathroom sex case

Oh, it seems such a simpler time, when we weren't having our lives pinched by the collapsing economy and actually thought some hypocritical Republican trying to snag a quickie in the public john was scandalous!

The Minnesota Court of Appeals is expected to rule today on Sen. Larry Craig's contention that he was wrongly convicted of looking for anonymous sex in a men's bathroom at the Twin Cities airport.

Craig, an Idaho Republican who is leaving the U.S. Senate at the end of this term, argued that he was wrongly convicted of disorderly conduct.

He was arrested in June during a sex sting at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

UPDATE- No luck for Lar.

Toilet humor

By GottaLaff

Via Taegan:

"The reason the Republicans found Joe the Plumber was to find someone hanging around a toilet other than Larry Craig."

-- James Carville, quoted by Politico.

The video is one of my earlier efforts. If you've already seen it, ignore. I just threw it in for fun.

Campaign Buttons For Obama Show Wrong Larry

Too funny.

LEWISTON, Idaho—Some Democratic campaign buttons made for distribution in Idaho show an unlikely pair: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican Sen. Larry Craig.

But don't expect the staunch Republican to throw his support behind Obama or for the presidential candidate to ask Craig to change his mind and run for Senate again. Apparently the button manufacturer picked a picture of the wrong Idaho Larry.

The 3-inch button by Tigereye Design was intended to show Obama beside Larry LaRocco, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, the Lewiston Tribune reported.

(snip)

The buttons weren't ordered by the LaRocco campaign, said Dean Ferguson, LaRocco's communications director. They appear to have been produced by a commercial firm that makes campaign memorabilia involving Democratic races around the country, he said.

"That sounds like it's going to be a collector's item," Ferguson said. "I'm sure Sen. Obama appreciates Sen. Craig's support."

My Nozzle or Yours?

By Paddy



The man couldn't even find "irony" in the dictionary if he tried.. Via TPM.

Sen. Craig's airport stall may return to spotlight

By Paddy


Via Pam's. I'm sooo embarrassed for them.

Sen. Craig's hook-up site on view for GOP convention-goers

Thousands of members of the international media will have to walk past it when they land at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport for the Republican National Convention in St. Paul at the end of the summer.

Many will feel obligated to stop and file a story.

For the party that bills itself as stronger on family values than the Democrats, it likely will prove an unwelcome distraction.

Graphic via.

Best. Baseball. Promotion. Ever.

Seriously, read this and love it!:

You've heard of the bobblehead doll that baseball teams love to hand out to fans. So how about a bobblefoot?

The St. Paul Saints are putting their own twist on the popular promotion, in a nod to one of the most notorious Minnesota stories of last year.

At Sunday's game, they'll give 2,500 fans a miniature bathroom stall with a pair of lower legs and feet - one of which is springloaded so that it taps.

A Saints press release notes that, "It doesn't matter if your tapping style is done with a 'wide stance.'"

I am headed to Minneapolis for a conference in two weeks or so, and am so pissed I won't be there for this....

Post-primary fun for Democrats! Fun, fun, fun!

By GottaLaff

See Republicans squirm. Squirm, squirm, squirm! Cringe, Republicans, cringe! See Democrats laugh! Chortle, chortle, chortle! Fun, fun, fun!

Frank Rich lays out a snarkalicious post-primary scenario:

For all the fears of a Democratic civil war, the planets may be aligning for a truce, and possibly a celebration. As fate has it, the nominee’s acceptance speech is scheduled for the night of Aug. 28, exactly 45 years after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. electrified the nation with “I Have a Dream.”

The next day brings another anniversary: Mr. McCain turns 72. And then, on Sept. 1, comes the virtually all-white G.O.P. vaudeville in Minneapolis-St. Paul. You’ll be pleased to know the show will go on despite the fact that the convention manager, chosen by the McCain campaign, had to resign last weekend after being exposed as the chief executive of a lobbying and consulting firm hired by the military junta in Myanmar.

The conventioneers will arrive via the airport whose men’s room was immortalized by a Republican senator still serving the good people of Idaho. This will be a most picturesque backdrop to the party’s eternal platform battles over family values, from same-sex marriage to abortion.

For good measure, antiwar demonstrators from within the G.O.P. — Ron Paul devotees — could provide at least a smidgen of the 1968-style disruptions the Democrats may avoid.

Bye-bye, Repubs, bye-bye! See Dems win!