A wartime president needs a wartime senate

Published: August 28, 2007, 9:55 pm

Tags: rightwingers say the darndest things

There’s this US senator, see, and he gets arrested for making mild sexual overtures to another bloke in an airport, except the other bloke turns out to be an undercover copper. Apparently even hinting that you’d like to have sex with another adult male is still a crime in the Land of the Free. Next time I visit I must remember to keep my eyes lowered at all times. Anyway stalwart neo-con loonie Hugh Hewitt is demanding that said senator resign. Not because the senator might be gay - perish the thought that such an unworthy consideration even came into Hugh’s mind! - but because the senator pleaded guilty and now reckons he did it in an ill-judged effort to make the thing go away. Well Hughie’s having none of it. He reckons the senator’s a liar. Moreover, he thunders: … even if I did believe him, this would make his judgment too flawed to be in the United States Senate in a time of war. He has to go. Yep, the damn senators can have crook judgement as

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