
Joe Conason on "The Senate's Strange Double Standard" -- Larry Craig v. Ted Stevens
A Senate ethics investigation awaits Larry Craig, but there is no similar outrage over the alleged corruption of Ted Stevens (or David Vitter, for that matter). Joe Conason examines the double standard:
For an object lesson in the distorted values of the United States Senate, consider how that august institution is handling the ethical embarrassments created by Republican
As everyone in America knows by now, Craig pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for an indiscretion in an airport men's room. Stevens, along with his son Ben and a number of other Alaska politicians and businessmen, is the subject of a corruption investigation that resulted in an FBI raid on his home last summer. Every day, the pressure mounts on Craig from his colleagues to resign — and every day, those same colleagues treat Stevens as if he remains above suspicion.
The Craig case is currently under investigation by the Senate Ethics Committee, yet no such probe of the Stevens matter has commenced. According to the prevailing morality in the Senate, a legislator who may or may not have signaled his prurient interest in another man demands the most searching scrutiny, but a legislator who quite plainly accepted financial favors from a contractor deserves none.


CREW gave these mental midgets way too much credit!
CREW has given the Senate Ethics Committee too much credit! The failure to investigate Stevens while in the interim investigating Craig is not about morality! This is about intelligence...lack thereof!
The Senate Ethics Committee now has shown what kind of stuff it is made of! It intellectually can't handle anything more complicated than a simple sex scandal--leaving very few victims! The entire brood has their minds in the gutter! They're trash! Lowlife-minded people are incapable of untangling and resolving the real issues of our time that make all Americans victims! Besides, all Ethics Committee members did the same as Stevens did. Congressional garbage sold-out the nation's homeland defense to 911 coconspirators (regarding news pending) so how can we expect traitors to investigate other traitors?
I predict that within 2 years there will be a major purging of everyone in the House and Senate as Americans discover they elected bottom dwellers and total morons to office and correct their mistakes!