World Gone Mad: the Senate Ethics Committee is going to investigate Senator Larry Craig’s “incident” in a Minneapolis airport bathroom. For crying out loud, what earthly business is it of theirs? I find it mystifying that poor Senator Craig was even arrested. So what if he propositioned someone? What’s that to you or me? And why is it worse or more “lewd” that he should do so in a men’s bathroom than were he to try and pick up a buxom young blond in a nightclub? When did asking for sex become illegal? (Having sex in a public lavatory, absent the owner’s consent, is of course a different matter.) What next, undercover cops in college bars?
Sure, it’s August and maybe Senator Craig is a hypocrite and a liar (though of course he says he isn’t). How does that make him different from the average Senator?
UPDATE: The lunatics are coming out to play! Hugh Hewitt thinks
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