"No wonder why we're going down the tubes..."

[CoffeeCat]

Did anyone else notice the comment made by the police officer who
interrogated Larry Craig?

Craig repeatedly lied during questioning--after the bathroom incident.
The police officer seemed outraged and he said he was "disappointed" in
the Senator for lying. Craig just kept lying and denying.

Finally the officer grew more outraged and he said, "Are you just going
to continue lying. No wonder we're going down the tubes".

It seemed to me that he was referencing how our country is going down the
tubes, and it's because our failed leaders are a bunch of dishonest, lying,
corrupt bastards who don't have a shred of decency remaining.

I thought it was telling that a police officer would point out, "No wonder why
we're going down the tubes".

At times, I feel like most people don't notice. Even though our country's
current situation is very depressing, it's comforting to know that other
people do understand that this country is falling apart at the seams.

[anniebelle]

1. That was quite a telling statement.

And of course he's right. I think the average Joe figured these creeps out a long time ago. I couldn't believe they had The Bug (Tom Delay) on the talking head shows yesterday to defend this cockroach (Larry Craig).

[CoffeeCat]

5. I can't believe that any media outlet...

...would let Tom Delay speak with authority on anything--unless
he was apologizing to the American people for his crimes.

However, can you believe that Delay would defend Craig???
It almost makes me laugh. If Delay wants to further
entrench himself as a big American joke, then he should
continue to appear in the national media and defend
the actions of Craig.

Sometimes I think we give too much credit to thugs
like Delay. We treat them like evil masterminds.
Really though, they're just stupid thugs who behave
like reckless nimrods.

[spanone]

13. delay is an enemy combatant....a turd in the punchbowl of life.

[Philosoraptor]

2. It should be carved on Mt. Rushmore.

[DrDan]

3. I heard it - and had the same reaction

and it is sad that the staunchest supporters of personal responsibility are the ones that have the hardest time living up to it.

But when you have the likes of tom the hammer delay, mitch mcconnell, ted stephens, tom feeney, newt gingrich, tom foley professing family values and spending each spare minute pointing out the failures in others. you can expect nothing but a culture on the down-slide.

Of course the policeman was from Minnesota. Would Craig have received the same reaction being caught in Idaho with a staunch-conservative policeman from Boise?

[jgraz]

4. Can you imagine how terrifying that must have been for Craig?

To actually be confronted, face-to-face, with someone who knew the truth and wouldn't let him lie his way out of it? I wonder if he's ever been in that situation since his childhood.

Ah, schadenfreude, the gift that keeps on giving. :rofl:

[Ian David]

15. He actually sounded fairly confident and relaxed to me. n/t

[izzie]

6. I guess it has finally got to the so called people who always

back the 'law and order' party and just love Bush. These types of nuts are sure hurting any one that is good in Congress. I bet their was a lot of work put on the cop to call it off and I wonder what was done to the Judge? Must have had two people who just felt the law means every one is the same.

[bunkerbuster1]

7. No, I had not noticed this about the police officer.

Thank you for pointing it out. It's understandable to believe, as both you and I do at times, that "most people don't notice." But given an opportunity to notice, they do.

[POAS]

8. Now the right wing spin machine will

use that statement as proving the officer was biased and out to get the poor Republican Senator. It was a witch hunt.

I caught it and thought the guy was exasperated by Craig's denials and lies about actions the officer had personally witnessed.

[Hubert Flottz]

9. I'd say that there are a lot of people who feel as bad as Larry about

all this...like the ones who were stupid enough to have ever trusted a guy like that.

[Ganja Ninja]

10. No shit! The lying is becoming a way of life with the republican's.

They do it so regularly now they don't even think about it.

[mwb970]

12. The right-wing lying seemed to go into high gear under Clinton.

During the 90s, I was taken aback by the wingnuttery we're all so used to now - it was new to me at the time. The crazy nonsense about Bill's drug-running, Hillary killing Vince Foster, etc., etc., really blew my mind. I couldn't believe that such obvious insanity was given a national platform and was allowed to stink up the whole nation instead of being marginalized and laughed at as it deserved.

Now rank dishonesty and moral turpitude appear to have wound themselves around the Republican party, strangling whatever decency it once represented and leaving us with the arrogant, incompetent gang of swaggering criminals and perverts that we now call the "GOP".

Which hypocritical conservative will be the next to go? My money's on Senator Stevens of Alaska.

[Hersheygirl]

11. Didn't you get the memo,

Lying now is a requirement to be a senator.

[Ian David]

14. He could have meant "We" as in "The Republican Party" or "We" as in "America" or "The World." n/t