Some folks just can’t catch a break. First, Larry Craig taps his foot in a restroom stall, and the next thing you know he’s announcing his intent to resign from the Senate. Almost no one noticed that he didn’t actually resign. After all, he wouldn’t be misleading us, would he?
Well, yes he would. The very next day Arlen Specter pointed out that, since Craig hadn’t actually resigned, he, Specter, felt he should fight the charges to which he’s already pleaded guilty. After all, Specter pointed out, he had only said he intended to resign. He had not, in fact, resigned.
Sure enough, Larry soon seemed to be considering changing his mind. It would be cynical of us to believe that while he had an “intent” to resign, he also had an “intent” to deceive, wouldn’t i?. Well, no, it wouldn’t, because Craig is a Republican, and almost by definition a liar and hypocrite.
Turns out that he used the word “intent” intentionally with the intent to deceive as to his intent, and at the urging of Arlen Specter no less.
How do we know this? Here’s where old Wide Stance’s inability to catch a break comes in. He spilled the beans in a telephone message to his lawyer. How is it that you can hear the whole thing here? Because Wide Stance was stupid enough to leave a substantive message on an answering machine that didn’t identify its owner. Guess what, it was a wrong number, and the unidentified patriot who found it on his/her tape duly handed it over to Roll Call.
If they had a Stupidity Code in the Senate Craig would have violated it by leaving that message. Rule one when you can’t tell if you’ve reached the right number; leave your name, number and the name of the person you’re trying to reach and then hang up.
How do people this stupid get into the Senate? Or is he subconsciously looking to get caught. At least he didn’t proposition his lawyer on the tape.
EDITED to meet my wife’s objection that not all Republicans are liars or hypocrites. (see italicized “almost”)
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